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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

The Internet provides books and discussion, so why would you need to go to school for those things? This is why you should be really careful using career centers – because colleges have this ivory-tower delusion that supporting yourself is ancillary to why you went to college. Here are some good links on Ben's blog.)

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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. In this model, a proficient nurse questions authority and does not go by the book, but by her own assessment of the situation at hand. Sometimes people ask questions that can easily be Googled or looked up in a book.

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