How do career guidance practitioners talk about their class, gender and racialised identities?

This chapter focuses on the stories of professional career guidance practitioners with new auto/biographical narrative research. Childhood stories of family, education and place of residence highlight the author's career guidance practitioners' identities of class, gender and 'race'. The chapter focuses on the selected narratives from two respondents, whom the author named Angela and Rachael, who offer contrasting stories about 'race'. What constitutes a gendered identity is being reconceptualised with poststructuralist feminists recognising that identities are in process, complex and multiple. The concept of reflexivity acknowledges that the author's identity as the researcher is entwined with the process of data collection and evidence. The chapter argues that talking about identities enables a complex understanding of self and others in which identities of class, gender and 'race' intersect. The author's summarised autobiography provides context to the themes of class, gender and race emerging from Angela's and Rachael's narratives.