Abstract

SILVA, Cláudia Sampaio Corrêa da; OURIQUE, Luciana Rubensan; OLIVEIRA, Manoela Ziebell de  and  REIS, Marcia Giovana Pedruzzi. Reinterpretation of an experience in Career Guidance. Rev. bras. orientac. prof [online]. 2008, vol.9, n.1, pp. 75-86. ISSN 1984-7270.

This study attempted to understand how clients who searched for assistance at a career guidance center, interpreted their experience some time later. Reinterpretation refers to the capacity that human beings have of attributing meanings to past experiences, sometimes different from, sometimes reaffirming the meanings previously attributed to those experiences. The subjects of this study were 10 clients who answered a semi-structured interview about their career guidance experience between 2001 and 2005. An important outcome was the fact that the interview itself triggered the reinterpretation process, according to which individuals could reconstruct past career guidance experiences, attributing meanings to them. It was also found that the opportunity of reinterpreting the career guidance experience and the way it inserted in the client’s career paths make it possible for more durable results and transferable knowledge. Thus, we suggest that, at the end of the career guidance process, the career guide should be attentive to the final interwiew, so that it can originate the emergence of meanings for the career guidance experiences, in an intentional and structured way.

Keywords : Reinterpretation; Career guidance; Interviews.

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