Webinar - Integrative Structured Interview (ISI) for Career Development Practitioners by McMahon &am
Telling Stories of Career Transition Through Scores & an Integrative Structured Interview (ISI)
Notes Submitted by D. Redd – 2 March 2016
Mary McMahon: The University of Queensland, Australia
Mark Watson: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
An APCDA Webinar
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM, PST
So fun! Participants were from all around the world!
This report is quoted or paraphrasing work of the presenters and is their original materials. My notes just touch on the presentation because I have access to the actual Power Point and audio recording. It would not be right to give every detail. See me in person if you want more information. I intend to use their method. That’s why I attended their training.
You can pay the low fee to access the recording and Power Point at this link:
The presenters were practitioners who got together and developed a process for using personal story telling to make sense of career assessment results. They researched and enhanced their process with real people who returned to the university as students after two years or more as full-time employees in the workforce.
Their process: ISI = Integrative Structured Interview to facilitate a story telling result in the career development process.
Covered:
Introduction
Where do stories come from
Career Assessment
Contextualizing Career Assessment
THE ISI PROCESS - STORY CRAFTING
Goals of career counseling are to develop transition skills… obtain information on the transferability of one’s skills to new opportunities…
Savickas (1993): “…metaphorically advocated that a move from the dominant test and tell metaphor evident in career assessment…”
Where Do Stories come From?
Basically, from our daily life
Individual: gender, values, sexual orientation, positive self-stories, negative self-stories…
Stories positive and negative come from the people around us…
Career Assessment
Assessment is a holistic process that invests information such as test results based on the stories that people bring…
Assessment results---remember they are tools for fostering career exploration..
Not to just report scores but to help make sense of results…
Assessment instruments need to be looked at from culture and reading levels
Pick correct assessment
Not one assessment for all people
Contextualizing career assessment
Such as entering their life space and asking them to share stories
Reflection: Dewy’s perspective on it is to transform a situation that is not clear or is of conflict to one that is clearer…
13 Story Crafting Questions Related to the Holland Code
The questions are excellent!
Aims: To Investigate:
Why adults who have been in the workforce engage in university study
Their experience of the university
How such students prepare to transition for the university
They Gave Us a Holland Typologies Refresher Course
The Interview Process has four parts…
Client Role vs Counselor Role:
A Big Deal - Pay Attention to the first bullet point!
A required shift of their research is that the client talks 70% of the time vs the counselor doing most of the talking…
Counselor needs to have stories for scores…
Moving from a test and tell metaphor to a narrative metaphor…
Identifying themes and patterns...,
Scaffolding conversations (White, 2007)…
Constructing a believable and actionable future story scaffold in the context of the client’s experiences in past and present stories