Planned happenstance: Constructing unexpected career opportunities

Chance plays an important role in everyone's career, but career counseling is still perceived as a process designed to eliminate chance from career de cision making. Traditional career counseling interventions are no longer su fficient to prepare clients to respond to career uncertainties. Work world shifts challenge career counselors to adopt a counseling intervention that views unplanned events as both inevitable and desirable. Counselors need to teach clients to engage in exploratory activities to increase the probabil ity that the clients will discover unexpected career opportunities. Unplann ed events can become opportunities for learning.