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Plan for the unplanned: Nine chance events to optimise opportunities in Happenstance towards Career Goals

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06/04/2022

To help students prepare for a changing job market with constantly unexpected landscapes, career practitioners are not only faced with an imperative to prepare students for jobs that do not exist yet (Weise, 2020), but also with an emergent need to improve students’ ability to optimize happenstance in their life. Planned happenstance theory (Mitchell et al., 1999) purports creating and transforming chance events into learning opportunities leading to career development, which implies generating beneficial unplanned events by engaging students in exploratory actions through five Planned Happenstance Career (PHC) skills (curiosity, persistence, flexibility, optimism, and risk taking). Expanded on the chance events identified by Betsworth and Hansen (1996), this article proposes nine chance events that career practitioners could create and utilize to transform happenstance into students’ learning opportunities. Read the full article here

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