COMING SOON: Career Coaching Through Changing Conditions
COMING SOON: Career Coaching Through Changing Conditions
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Career Coaching Through Changing Conditions brings together Sustainable Career Ecosystem Theory, the Weather as a Career Metaphor, and the Employability Capital Growth Model to help career development practitioners and the people they support make sense of change, whether conditions are settled and favourable or uncertain and difficult.
The Weather as a Career Metaphor works across three layers, from the immediate conditions people face, through recurring seasonal patterns, to the wider climate of structural and societal change. It covers the full range of career weather, growth, clarity and meaning as well as uncertainty, disruption, shock and depletion, on the understanding that a sustainable career depends on both. Paired with nine forms of employability capital, this gives practitioners an intuitive, flexible language that resonates across career stages, sectors and contexts.
This invaluable resource will help you:
- Make sense of complexity with a clear, intuitive framework that reflects the realities of today’s labour market.
- Apply theory in practice using adaptable tools grounded in contemporary career development thinking.
- Support clients through good conditions and difficult ones alike, recognising that sustainable careers are built across both.
Across 15 chapters and 20 international case studies spanning ages, geographies and lived experiences, including disability and neurodivergence, the book equips practitioners to help clients navigate changing conditions and create sustainable careers, whatever the forecast.
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Published: 07 December 2026
Edition: 1st
Length: 176 pages
Dimensions: 24 x 17 cm
Key Reviews
"William E. Donald turns a simple weather metaphor into a genuinely useful framework for understanding careers as they are lived - full of good spells, storms, and everything in between. The international case studies bring real texture to each stage, from growth and clarity through to burnout and recovery. A book that gives career development professionals a shared language their clients should recognise immediately."
Associate Professor Deirdre Hughes OBE
"Career Coaching Through Changing Conditions gave me a language I didn’t know I’d been missing. I recognised myself in the text, from Nadia showing how the same job can shift beneath you, to the apple tree that quietly taught me why a quieter year is still part of growth. Will brings complex career theory to life in a way that stays with you long after you close the book. What I’ll carry forward most is his invitation to pause: to check the ground beneath you before deciding whether to stay or run. The book encourages us to look beyond the individual and consider the relationships, resources and wider conditions shaping a person’s career. Most powerfully, it invites us to read and reflect on our own career weather too. Every career development practitioner should read this."
Ladi Mohammed, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Global Educational Travel and Tours
“I think it's fascinating … The Weather as a Career Metaphor is a nice metaphor and it is original … No other book has offered this way of thinking about careers … and the case studies are excellent.”
Oliver Jenkin, RCDP, CDI, Editor of Career Matters
"Weather turns out to be the metaphor career development has been missing. William Donald moves practitioners past the ladders and pathways that have long dominated career thinking, and toward a framework for reading conditions, drawing on resources, and knowing what a moment calls for. Grounded in rigorous theory yet immediately usable in practice, this book will change how practitioners listen to those they serve, and also how they understand their own working lives. Essential reading for practitioners and the people who train them."
Dr Candy Ho, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Past Chair of CERIC, Canada
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Careers, Change and Conditions
Part II. Growth, Clarity and Meaning
Chapter 2. Rain: Growing Capability
Chapter 3. Sun: Career Clarity
Chapter 4. Rainbow: Meaning and Significance
Part III. Uncertainty, Redirection and Temporary Setbacks
Chapter 5. Fog: Navigating Uncertainty
Chapter 6. Wind: Changing Direction
Chapter 7. Thunderstorm: Temporary Setbacks
Part IV. Shock, Overwhelm and Depletion
Chapter 8: Tornado: Career Shocks
Chapter 9. Snow Blizzard: Overwhelm and Reorientation
Chapter 10. Drought: Career Depletion and Renewal
Part V. Integrative Cases Across Career Contexts and Stages
Chapter 11: Integrative Cases: Educational and Early Career Development
Chapter 12: Integrative Cases: Work and Career Stages
Part VI. Embracing Career and Life Transitions
Chapter 13. Seasonal Change
Chapter 14. Climate and the Career Ecosystem
Chapter 15. Weathering Changing Conditions: Sustaining Careers across Time
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Practitioner Toolkit
Meet the author: William E. Donald
Professor William E. Donald (Will) is a Visiting Professor of Sustainable Careers & Inclusive Practice at the University of Southampton and an Adjunct Professor at Liverpool John Moores University. An internationally recognised researcher, he is the founder of Sustainable Career Ecosystem Theory (SCET), the Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM), and Weather as a Career Metaphor (WCM).