Movement in a New Direction

Helps You Find New Cheese

How do we explore the maze of the

future job market?
 Modelling Careers
As Actively & Collectively
+
Classical Career
Constructed
V Positive Psychology Individu
Guidance (e.g., broaden-and-build,
I al
(e.g., aptitude Frederickson, 2003)
S Action
testing)
T
Positive Organizational
Positive Organizational
T Scholarship
Scholarship
O (e.g., appreciative inquiry,
(e.g., appreciative inquiry,
Cooperrider & Whitney, 2005)
Cooperrider & Whitney, 2005)
C Mytho-poetic
O (e.g. David Whyte, 2003
N in
or Hero's Journey)
S Collectiv
T e
Intervening in recruitment to
R
U change Situatio
C employers' construals ns
(e.g., Salognon, 2007)
T
I Social Construction of the Job
Labour Market
O Market
Data
N e.g., challenging service work as
I
(e.g., Riley, 1996)
lowly skilled (e.g., Gray, 2003)
with
S Societal
T Effects
Developing & Using an ARG as a
Research Tool
 Contribution
Literature Review & Clarification of Research
Questions
The job market as construed and collectively
reproduced by the job seeker

Pilot Studies, Protocols, Know-How

A progressively complex series of ARG’s to
reveal the agency of job seekers with respect
to the job market

Thesis
Case studies of one or more games showing
alternate behaviours in alternate realities
Thank you