Prior to the
class activity, I had a hard time understanding and applying Granello's article.
Granello (2001) presents a taxonomy is a hierarchy of six levels that provides
an essential skill for students to write graduate level, advanced literature
reviews. Going into class last week, I
was afraid that our group’s literature review was not at this level that
Granello (2001) asserts writing should be at. In looking at the feedback from
the rest of the class and observing other people’s literature reviews, I
realized that we are probably at the application level, with our organization mainly
by theme. Granello (2001) points out ways in which to move papers to the higher
levels of taxonomy, which I believe was extremely beneficial to read and
helpful moving forward.
In Chapter
13, Brown (2012) begins with statistics about underemployed graduates. I was
not surprised to find out that 56 percent of graduates are underemployed,
meaning their current job does not allow them to fully utilize their skills. I
think that this can be accounted for the lack of career education or
preparation in post secondary schools. Brown (2012) also notes that 54 percent
of college graduates report being in their present career as a result of
following a conscious plan. I believed that statistic. I feel like I am one of
those students. However, I did go to an institution where I felt my career
exploration and preparation needs were met. As I’ve said before, I started my
undergrad in a completely different field than what I’m studying to do now, but
I was able to come to an understanding of what I wanted to do through workshops,
advisement, and the internship program at my previous institution.
While
reading, I thought a lot about my friends who I just graduated with in May.
Many of them are in jobs that are unrelated to what they studied because of the
lack of jobs in those fields. For instance, a friend of mine who I studied Broadcasting
with is now in a higher education job because the jobs simply were not
available. Another reason would be lack of experience and qualifications. This
is why internships and many of the other
brief activities Brown (2012) discussed are extremely important for undergrad
students to participate in.
Finally, in
Chapter 18 Brown (2012) writes his predictions on the future trends of career
development. One projection that stood out to me was the change in language to
describe human careers in terms of life roles, life settings, and life events
that develop over the lifespan. I was specifically interested in Super’s
Life-Span Life-Space theory, which I wrote my paper based off of and continue
to think about in relation to my own career development.
Brown, D. (2007). Career information, career counseling, and career development (9h ed.). New York: Pearson Education, Inc.
Granello, D. H. (2001). Promoting cognitive complexity in graduate written work: Using Bloom's taxonomy as a pedagogical tool to improve literature reviews. Counselor Education & Supervision, 40, 292-307.
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