The challenge of career studies

Abstract

I am proposing here that career studies is an appropriate subject for study at university level, even for those not intending to enter
the ‘career’ field. ‘Career’ lies at the intersection of the individual and society, and its study is as challenging as that of any
other university subject because it requires understanding of, and a rigorous approach to, a complex area, but unlike them,
however, it is of direct relevance to students’ own lives. This paper argues that their reflections upon their own ‘career’
experiences would illuminate and interrogate what they would learn through academic study. This indeed is what I found
for myself as I came as a newcomer to this field.