I hope colleagues will forgive this shameless self-promotion, but this newly published methodology article may be useful to some of you. Angela Mazzetti and I have developed a visual timeline method to explore career events with individuals, our focus was on stress and coping but the method lends itself to a range of issues within careers.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8325.2012.02060.x/abstract
Despite initiatives like INVISO (http://in-visio.org) visual methods still sit squarely in a box marked 'weird and quirky' in the eyes of many editors and reviewers, and the papers one might cite to justify their use are usually found either in less prestigious journals, or in publications from other disciplines. Since our article is published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, an excellent and impeccably mainstream publication, we hope it may prove a useful source reference for faculty and PhD students interested in exploring visual approaches.
Best regards
John
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Dr John Blenkinsopp CPsychol, AFBPsS, Chartered MCIPD
Assistant Dean (Research)
Teesside University Business School
Middlesbrough, UK
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