Task:
This assessment offers you the opportunity to demonstrate that you have understood and are able to evaluate some of the key concepts covered within the module. You are required to interview an individual who is at a later life-career stage than you. Write a report of between 1000 and 1500 words in which you address one the following questions:
1. With reference to either Levinson or Baruch’s integrated ‘age and stage’ model of career development, identify what life-career stage s/he is at. To what extent are these consistent or inconsistent with the model you refer to? What might explain these findings?
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2. To what extent and how does his or her experience to date relate to one or more of Schein’s career anchors? What were the key influences on his or her career choice?
Your work should start with a brief introduction of your interviewee and your approach to the interview. The discussion should integrate theory and analysis, and must address one of the above questions. Whichever question you choose to address, your assignment should conclude with an evaluation of the usefulness and relevance of the theories you have referred to in understanding an individual’s career.