Career practice and professional development

Why and how people decide to do the job they do has fascinated scholars and theorists for centuries. There has, however, been a particularly huge leap in the development of career theories and models of practice since the beginning of the twentieth century.

From Frank Parsons’ Trait and Factor Theory in the early 1900s to the Coaching model developed during the 2000s, career educators and practitioners have had a solid foundation on which to base their practice, and a continuous stream of new ideas to keep their approaches fresh.