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Abstract

Career decision-making models, devised to help career decision-makers to make better choices, are not well-used in practice in Higher Education (HE) perhaps because they are too far removed from natural decision-making approaches. This study examines the career decision-making processes of 30 employed recent UK graduates. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analysed with a reflexive thematic analysis. The findings identified three processes: generating an idea, exploring in-depth and choosing. The discussion identifies differences between this model and existing prescriptive models: ideas are identified and analysed singly, self-exploration takes place after idea generation, and chance plays a significant part throughout.

Publication Type:	Article
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Publisher Keywords:	Career decision-making, graduates, higher education, thematic analysis
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Departments:	School of Health & Psychological Sciences School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Psychology
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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