Personal application of theory

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Planned happenstance theory is based on the impact of chance events that happened during a person's life. In this theory, people do not always need to plan a career but they can plan to act on chances so it can transform into career opportunities. People can also creates career opportunities by acting on their curiosities of happenstance. Planned happenstance theory is not just luck or being at the right place at the right time but also being able to take risk, flexible, optimism, curious in things and lastly have persistence even when things are not going accordingly. Throughout my career life, I was able to take opportunities upon happenstances which lead me into the career and work counselling program. Therefore I believe in the planned happenstance theory because all my career choices was lead by happen chances.

In the beginning of 2012, I lost my job and have been searching for a job for several months. At that time I was very stressed because I could not find anything that was suitable for me. One weekend, I decided to go to the shopping mall for some window shopping because i...

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