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Embrace Metaphor in the Career Coaching Conversation

International Coach Academy

Experts found that many career counselors with a constructivist foundation are choosing to use metaphors and stories in their counseling practice (Thrift and Amundson, 2005). With the power of framing and reframing perspectives, metaphors have been used widely in the career counseling process. Career Counselling.

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4 Types of questions get us in trouble | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

If you want emotional validation or in-depth individual career counseling, you're in the wrong place. I don't think you have the slightest idea how much time it would take for PT to do this with every single question someone asks her — and expects her to answer for free.

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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

What we got was classes where instructor read for texts, useless core classes, a foreign language requirement, and no one asking to hire our major at career services. Naturally there is a selection process that does not draw the best minds to career counseling.

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