Eliminate alternatives: assessing information
Start action: planning & executing this 6 step sequence of decision-making behaviours.
The use of these task approach skills of career decision making depends on relevant learn-
ing. The most effective career development requires individuals to be exposed to the widest
possible range of learning experiences, regardless of race, gender, etc.
1.4 Potential Problems for Professional Practice:
Several types of problems may arise because of dysfunctional or inaccurate world-view and
self-observation generalizations. According to Krumboltz, these are that people may:
● fail to recognize that a problem exists;
● fail to make a decision or solve a problem ;
● eliminate a potentially satisfying alternative for inappropriate reasons ;
● choose poor alternatives for inappropriate reasons;
● become anxious over perceived inability to achieve goals.Techniques and strategies for guidance follow from an assessment of the problem.
2. Learning theory of careers choice & counselling
In 1996, Krumboltz developed the Learning Theory of Careers Choice and Counselling
(LTCC). Mitchell and Krumboltz (1996:250) state that the Social Learning Theory of Ca- reers Decision Making provides a coherent explanation of a person’s career path after it happens but it does not explain what a careers counselor can do to help people shape their own paths’. So, the LTCC was developed to providea guide to practising career counsel-
lors who want to know what they can do now to help people troubled with a variety of career-
related concerns’.
2.1 summary of Practical applications:
Mitchell and Krumboltz (1996) identify four fundamental trends with which people must
cope when making career choices in modern society and with which careers practitioners
must help:
a) People need to expand their capabilities and interests:
Practitioners should assist clients to explore new activities, rather than
routinely directing them on the basis of measured interests that reflect limited
past experiences.
b) People need to prepare for changing work tasks:
Learning new skills for the changing labour market can be very stressful for