Career Counselling: Techniques that work is a much-needed introductory text for all practitioners involved in primary, secondary and tertiary education, psychology and social work.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Career assessment: using scores and stories in life designing --
Using the best of both worlds: not a question of one or the other --
Enough for my mealie-meal: the cultural preparedness approach to the delivery of careers service --
Carrer counselling of people with disability --
Can tests 'predict' success or help you find a career? --
Story telling: moving from thin stories to thick and rich stories --
Obtaining an interest profile --
Personality and value-related information --
Obtaining a study orientation profile --
Obtaining, developing and enhancing an emotional intelligence profile --
The role of the family in career interest development --
Creative approaches to gathering baseline information --
The interface between career counselling and other counselling/pschotherapy --
Adapting in a changing world: dealing with repeated career transtions --
Testing the water: carrying out job/work analysis --
The final product: writing a career counselling report --
Two case studies --
Identifying life-career themes with the career-story interview --
Using early memories in career-story interviewing.

This is an introductory text that provides practitioners with a wide range of efficient and effective career interventions. Representing the main schools of thought in career counselling today, Career counselling: Methods that work identifies and reflects the growing global interest in innovative approaches to career counselling including Mark Savickas' career-story interview technique for career construction counselling. In addition, the text: facilitates an understanding and application of contemporary theories, goals, methods and strategies in career counselling; provides an overview of the most recent and current international perspectives on 21st century career counselling; examines the historical and philosophical underpinnings of qualitative, quantitative and multi-method approaches to career counselling and suggests how these approaches may be utilised by practitioners; critically analyses questions such as, 'How can career counselling be best facilitated for all learners, in all contexts, including learners who experience barriers to learning?' and 'How does one use the career-story questionnaire to promote self-reflection for life design?'
; and discusses various assessments that could be used to facilitate clients' self-expression and discovery of their identity and personality configuration. The text is recommended for practitioners involved in primary, secondary and tertiary education, psychology and social work, corporate coaches, academics, researchers, scholars and students.