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

Penelope Trunk

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 4 Types of questions get us in trouble Posted to: Interviewing | Knowing yourself | Networking October 12th, 2009 Del.icio.us Posted by Melissa Mansfield on October 12, 2009 at 11:22 am | permalink | Reply I do #2 with a twist.

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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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