Abstract:
Major changes in the global economy over the past decades have resulted in increased levels of workand
career-related uncertainty. Workers are continually confronted with issues of restructuring and
transformation in the workplace. The theory and practice of career counselling need reshaping to
enable young people to design successful lives and adapt to changing needs, changing interests and
novel work experiences. Globally, career counselling theorists have taken on the challenge of revisiting
and revising extant career theories to enable them to provide a time-appropriate service to their clients.
This article discusses the theoretical base for a novel career counselling strategy that entails guiding
clients to reflect and meta-reflect on their own career-related responses. A case study is discussed. It is
hoped that the explicated strategy will provide career counsellors with a strategy to help clients
choose not only appropriate careers but also use these careers to design and live successful lives.
