What do I need to know about Career Development Theory?

Good places to start:

• CERIC Book: Career Theories and Models at Work: Ideas for Practice (Nancy Author, Roberta Neault, Mary McMahon)  - includes 18 WEBINARS at bottom of page exploring different chapters
  • Handout for dozen ways to use career theories and models at work
• CERIC Career Development Practice in Canada: Perspectives, Principles and Professionalism
  • can download individual textbook chapters for free (22 in total)

CERIC Articles about specific thinkers

• 2017-06-07 Thought Leader Insights Rich Feller references several:
  • Dick Bolles - job finding
  • Nancy Schlossberg & Sunny Hanson - white male privilege at work
  • Garry Walz, David Tiedeman, Phil Jarvis - trend tracking
  • Art O'Shea & Tom Harrington - career decision-making
  • Norm Gysbers - life career development view
  • Dick Knowdell - motivated skills
  • Mark Savickas - Life Design
  • Fred Luthans - psychological capital
  • Rich Snyder, Norm Amundson, Skip Niles - views on hope
  • Rich Leider - clarity about purpose
  • Philip Hardin - aptitudes
  • Mark Franklin - storytelling
  • Janet Taylor - self-care at work
  • Holland theory re how workplace organized
  • Super - reoccuring cycles of development
  • Patton & McMahon - Systems Theory framework
  • David Blustein - Psychology of Work & attention to work adjustment theory
  • portfolio careers
  • multiple-stage life
  • longevity
  • demise of defined benefits
  • ageless aging
  • power of peer-to-peer support
  • building community
  • creating tools to explore possibilities about "what's next"
  • boot camps
  • micro-colleges
  • DIY learning
  • coaching