Planned Happenstance Inventory and Making Your Own Career Luck

Ryan Brown and Steve Weingarden talk about what luck really is and how career decisions are building blocks that combine to define the totality of your career and next threads, rather than absolutes. How well do you know your career path?

John Krumboltz was... a bit of everything in his career! Krumboltz, along with Kathleen Mitchell (who coined the term "planned happenstance"), and Al Levin drove discussion around capitalizing on the potential benefits of unexpected events to create a more meaningful life for yourself!

RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE

• Journal of Counseling and Development: Planned Happenstance: Constructing Unexpected Career
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• Luck Is No Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career by John D. Krumboltz and Al S. Levin
• Unplanned Career How to Turn Curiosity into Opportunity A Guide & Workbook by Kathleen Mitchell

1. You're Hired! with Steve Piazzale (TV show episode) -- John Krumboltz, Luck Is No Accident -- Part 1
2. You're Hired! with Steve Piazzale (TV show episode) -- John Krumboltz, Luck Is No Accident -- Part 2
3. You're Hired! with Steve Piazzale (TV show episode) -- John Krumboltz, Luck Is No Accident -- Part 3

Ryan Brown and Steve Weingarden focus on the importance of finding meaningful work and prioritizing the roles in your life. Why is it so important to take an overarching view of you career, rather than looking only at one component at a time?

Donald Super was a career educator, seminal in introducing the idea that people's career choices and decisions typically develop over a considerable time span. Super also promoted the idea that self-concept strongly influenced career choice. Super's Life-Career Rainbow is a critical framework. founder of humanistic psychology.

RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE

• My World of Work -- Life Career Rainbow
• MindTools -- The Life Career Rainbow
• An Introduction to "Life Roles" by Robert E. Straby
• Life Roles, Values, and Careers: International Findings of the Work Importance Study by Donald E. Super, Branimir Sverko, and Charles M. Super

Ryan Brown and Steve Weingarden focus on the importance of finding meaningful work and working towards self-actualization. How can self-actualization be applied to your career development?

Abraham Maslow was a founder of humanistic psychology. His needs hierarchy is a hallmark of introductory psychology courses.

RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE

• The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow (2nd Edition), by Edward Hoffman
• What Does It Mean to Be Self-Actualized in the 21st Century? By Scott Barry Kaufman
• Maslow on Management, by Abraham Maslow
• Self-Actualization Tests, provided by Scott Barry Kaufman
• A Theory of Human Motivation, by Abraham Maslow