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- Azealia, a 24-year-old art history graduate, sought career counseling due to persistent unemployment and growing uncertainty about her career path. She had been living with her parents and actively searching for a job at a museum for 18 months since graduating, but despite several promising interviews, she had not secured a position. This prolonged job search was taking a toll on her mental health, with Azealia reporting minor depressive symptoms. She was beginning to question her chosen career field and contemplating a return to graduate school, though she was unsure about pursuing a different path.
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- Imagine you are Azealia’s new counselor. Utilizing the CCC model, how would you start to approach her career concerns? What kind of questions would you need to ask?
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- Be a Doctor... OR ELSE
- As a child, Azealia's parents would describe her as, "beating to the sound of her own drum." Azealia's mother and father both worked as doctors and ad little leisure time to spend with her. Growing up, they put a lot of pressure on Azealia to continue their legacy and become a doctor herself; however, Azealia was drawn to the arts.
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- She was deeply influenced by two significant role models; her aunt, a successful museum curator in Vienna, and her high school film teacher. Her aunt's artistic taste and non-traditional lifestyle inspired Azealia's own non-conformist spirit, while her teacher's passion for nurturing young minds sparked her interest in impactful work while creating a unique and independent life path distinct from the expectation of her parents. Because of this, at a young age Azealia became determined to defy her parent's desires and pursue her interests in art history.
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- What schemas seem to be relevant when working with Azealia?
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- During her teenage years, Azealia's interests began to take shape. She found herself drawn to travel blogs, art nouveau documentaries, and film critique websites. These interests reflected her growing desire for new experiences and chasing exhilarating opportunities for personal growth
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- A pivotal moment in Azealia's high school years was when she won an award at a local film festival for her documentary-style coverage of contemporary surrealist art. This experience not only highlighted her organizational skills and creativity but also ignited a passion for story-telling.
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- As Azealia confidently entered adulthood, her favorite story became particularly significant. She resonated with a novel about a woman in her 20s quitting her job as a dental assistant to pursue life as a starving writer in the south of France. This narrative mirrored Azealia's own yearning for meaningfully passionate work that aligned with her values and her desire to create a life where she is the main character of her narrative.
- Throughout her journey, Azealia held onto a powerful motto: "It's your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you." This mantra revealed her inherent resilience and self- motivation.
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- When considering Pase 1 of the CCC model, what are some salient micro-narratives and constructs in Azealia's vocational/educational life?
- When moving into phase 2, how can ew help Azealia reconstruct these micro-narratives into a macro-narrative?
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- As her counselor, Azealia and you explored the meanings contained in her Career Construction Interview responses. Together, Azealia and you identified some recurring themes of creativity, artistry, independence, and a desire for impactful work. Azealia came to understand that her current job search strategy might be too narrowly focused on traditional art history roles.Through this process of self-reflection and narrative exploration, Azealia garnered deeper career curiosity and the value of looking ahead into the future. She began to see how her fear of deviating from her planned career path had been conflicting with her true desires for meaningful work. She now desires an artistic career that will inspire others to follow their dreams through hard work, dedication, and embracing authenticity.
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- Congruent with Phase 3 of the CCC model, how would you help Azealia construct a plan to live by her new found career narrative?
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- Together, Azealia and the counselor developed a comprehensive career plan that expanded career search to include roles combining her propensity for art with her leadership skills. After researching career paths, Azealia reconnected with interest in teaching and found excitement in the possibility of becoming a professor. Simultaneously, she could not rid herself of her passion to create and began screenwriting art nouveau films. After networking with adjacent professionals, joining local film clubs, and building her portfolio, Azealia applied and was accepted for a PhD program in Film.
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- OPENING NIGHT!
- How Musk Stole the Mona Lisa
- MASTERPIECE MIRAGE:
- During her program, her screenwriting started to take off when an adaptation of one of her scripts was shown at a national film festival and picked up by a major production company. 10 years following career counseling with you, Azealia is now a prominent screenwriter with a residency professor job at the University of Southern California. Her most recent film entitled, Masterpiece Mirage: How Musk Stole the Mona Lisa, was a hit in the box office.
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- THANK YOU
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