Poetic Reflexivity and the Birth of Career Writing: An Autoethnographic Love Story

Abstract

The intention of this chapter is to show how autoethnographic research might promote reflexivity among career professionals.We aim to answer the question: can writing one’s own life and career story assist career practitioners and researchers in identifying patterns, idiosyncrasies, vulnerabilities that will make them more aware of the elements that are fundamental to career construction and that have been mentioned in a variety of disparate places in the existing career literature?What interested us as career researchers and co-creators of the narrative approach Career Writing in considering the innovative intention of this book, was how writing our own career story could deepen our professional reflexivity and might also help others to do so.