ABSTRACT
Despite the sustained efforts of law makers and those who implement policy, occupational landscapes across the globe are still characterised by a number of gross imbalances. Unemployment is rife; in South Africa, for instance, some people put the unemployment figure at an alarming 46 per cent (Jansen, 2004, personal communication). Furthermore, in many countries career counselling, often a metaphor for change (Davidson, 1989; Krumboltz, 1993), presents a non-threatening substitute strategy for receiving personal therapy, since it offers a “more legitimate frame within which adults can review past choices, reflectively rue or celebrate their consequences, and use that learning to better understand self in relation to occupational and family work, and that work in relation to life” (Krumboltz, 1993, p. 153). Yet in 2005, career counselling is accessible primarily to people who are able to afford this often expensive service.
