Understanding Careers
The Metaphors of Working Lives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19941965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kerr Inkson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Understanding Careers (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications, Inc. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4135/9781483328867 |
| OpenAlex | W1514877231 |
| Open Library | OL9860229M |
| ISBN | 9781483328867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
'Understanding Careers' covers career choice, development & management through the use of metaphor. Key archetypal metaphors from career theory & discourse, for example 'journey', 'story' & 'resource' are used to collate research & theory about careers allowing the reader to effectively cover the broad curriculum of career studies
Action (physics) · Engineering ethics · Linguistics · Management · Metaphor · Pedagogy · Physics · Sociology · Education Systems and Policy · Engineering · Philosophy · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Anthropology, cultural · Business · Business & Economics · Career development · Economics · Finance · Human Resources & Personnel Management · Occupations · Professions · Quality of work life · Vocational guidance · Work & labour
Joining and Leaving Organizations in a Global Information Society
Meaningful Work and Personal/Social Well-Being Organizational Communication Engages the Meanings of Work
The worker as politician
The Ghost of the Stable Path
Not lost in translation
Careers
Career development and transitions of athletes
Constructing careers through narrative and music
A profile analysis investigation of perfectionism, time perspective in relation to career decision making
Sensing callings in crowded contexts
Field instructors and professional identity
Contextualizing entrepreneurship in the boundaryless career
From the Mouths of Babes
Making mavericks
Careers in the Australian sex industry
A place for mobility in metaphors of youth transitions
Narrative career counselling
The theory and uses of metaphor in educational administration and leadership
Spatialising careership
Proposing a culture-centered approach to career scholarship
I Second That Emotion
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |