Brain Drain - Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit

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1. Course 1: Selected Theories of Career Development and
Counselling Regarding the Psycho-Social Effects of
International Mobility
1.1 Learning Objectives
• Counsellors can analyze and evaluate the main theories of career choice and
development in the view of psycho-social effects of BD – BG. (TAX 3 – foundation
competences)
• Counsellors can analyze and evaluate the main approaches of career counselling
and guidance in the view of psycho-social effects of BD – BG. (TAX 3 – foundation
competences)
• Counsellors are familiar with newer theoretical and empirical studies
on motives for BD – BG – Brain Re-gain. (TAX 2 – foundation competences)
1.2 Unit 1: Matching Theories: Trait & Factor, Person-Environment-
Correspondence (Holland)
• The Trait & Factor Theory underscoring the identity and exceptionality of every
individual.
• Quantification of aptitudes and traits of individual persons.
• The Trait & Factor Theory underscoring the interpersonal nature of a professional
career and the lifestyle connected with it, conditioned by: the family, ethical and
religious issues, social environment and pleasures.
• The six categories one can use to classify kinds of personality and working
environments: realistic, searching, artistic, social, venturesome and conventional.
• Satisfaction from performing a definite kind of work depending on the degree of
interdependence of the type of personality and working environment.
• The theory stressing association of an individual and the kind of work well suited to
his or her talent.
1.3 Unit 2: Developmental and Post-Modern Theories (Super,
Gottfredson, Savickas, Guichard, Poukelis)
• Theories based on the conception of personal development (by Donald E. Super
and Eli Ginzberg).
• Versatility of the theories, attaching more importance to behaviours connected
with occupational career spread in time and stressing the important role of one’s
self.
• Occupational development as the process of enforcing one’s own image.
People’s opinions on who they are reflected in what they do.
• Five stages of occupational development, whereas a developmental task which
has to be accomplished can be assigned to each of them.
• Life designing, career designing
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