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Embrace Metaphor in the Career Coaching Conversation

International Coach Academy

Amundson stated in his book ‘Metaphor Making: Your Career, Your Life, Your Way’ that when facing new challenges, people tend to refer to parallel examples and apply those experiences to the current problem(2009). With the power of framing and reframing perspectives, metaphors have been used widely in the career counseling process.

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

Penelope Trunk

As a Gen-Y who stopped going to college I found that real life experiences, networks and self education were more important and vital than a college education for my career track. College is just another part of a previous generation's American dream along with the overpriced mortgage and the white picket fence.

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