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Introducing the ICCDPP at the first Arab Career Development conference

Adventures in Career Development

I was very privileged to be asked to address the first Arab Career Development conference today in Aswan, Egypt today. I was there to introduce the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy and to talk about policy.

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Leaders Share about Career Development: A Frontline Festival

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This month, our contributors share their thoughts about career development. The post Leaders Share about Career Development: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Frontline Festival career development

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Critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development

Adventures in Career Development

This article was first posted on the Career Guidance for Social Justice website on the 7th October. In this issue we present 13 articles and an editorial exploring the value of critical theory to careers research.

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Career Development: Develop Employees With Limited Time (Video)

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Support Your Team with Career Development Even When You’re Busy. You want to help your team with career development, but time is limited. And, ensuring that every member of your team has an active career development plan as part of your talent strategy.

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Green guidance: Why career development needs to pay attention to environmental change

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I’ve just given a presentation to the Career Development Association of Australia looking at the issue of green guidance. In it I argue that climate change and wider environmental issues are becoming increasingly important for our careers.

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Guest post: Equality and inclusive practice in career development

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In this guest post from Ifza Shakoor, she asks recently qualified career professionals with three or fewer years of experience working in the sector in England to participate in her research project about equity and diversity in the career development field.

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Career Development May Mean Career Disruption

Let's Grow Leaders

Today we’ve invited our friend and author, Julie Winkle Giulioni, to share some career development expertise from her book Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want. The post Career Development May Mean Career Disruption appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Career & Learning career development careers Julie Winkle Giulioni VUCA

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4 Pillars For Career Development

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Take Charge Of Your Career: Develop Your Own Success Metrics

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At any stage of your career, you may not advance as quickly as you hope or get the quantity or quality of feedback that you seek. Put yourself in the drivers' seat by developing your own success metrics. Careers /careers Leadership /leadership Careers /careers leadership

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We are looking for new board members for the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy (ICCDPP)

Adventures in Career Development

The International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy (ICCDPP) is a non-profit body committed to improving policies, strategies, and systems to strengthen career service provision around the world. The ICCDPP is seeking new board members with experience and expertise in policy development in career development and related fields e.g. public employment services, human resource management, education and training.

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Career Development: A Roadmap to Set Your Course

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What is career development? Why is career development important? Phases of career development. 9 ways to develop your career. Career development starts now. Professional Development Consumer SEO Codeless Optimized Coach contributedJump to section.

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Global Careers Month: Opening Ceremony

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I was very pleased to represent the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy at the Opening Ceremony of Global Careers Month. News Presentations career development career guidance Global Careers Month

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3 Simple Ways To Make Mentoring A Successful Career Development Tool

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Is UCU still rising?

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If you aren’t interested in the ins and outs of UK higher education, feel free to ignore this blog, I’ll be back to talking about career career guidance pretty soon. We have taken control of our lives and careers and made change happen.

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Survey on the next 10 years of the Gatsby Benchmarks

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The Gatsby Foundation are consulting on the future development of the Gatsby Benchmarks. If you want to find out more about their thinking on this they have published a really useful article on their website called Good Career Guidance: The Next 10 Years.

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Issue 49 of the NICEC Journal is now available

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This issue includes: I’m old enough and I’m young enough: Semi-retirement and career – Cordelia Wise. Is careers work white? An investigation of power constraints and other barriers to career development practitioners’ innovation in higher education – Holly McLoughlin.

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Call for application for people to become a NICEC fellow

Adventures in Career Development

NICEC is committed to serious thinking and innovation in career development work. Founded in 1975, NICEC is a learned society for reflective practitioners in career education, career guidance/counselling, and career development.

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New reports on career guidance in Norwegian schools

Adventures in Career Development

The Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills have just published a series of new reports looking at career guidance in Norwegian schools. This provides a powerful evidence base for the development of the countries career guidance system.

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NICEC journal goes open access

Adventures in Career Development

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the journal, it is an open access, multi-disciplinary journal dedicated to careers theory, practice and research. . – Career theory, policy, research, and practice. In print News careers research nicec nicec journal open access

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Lessons for career guidance from return-on investment analyses in complex education-related fields

Adventures in Career Development

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Chris Percy and I have just published a new article which looks at the idea of ‘return on investment (ROI)’ and seeks to explore what the state of the art is with respect to career guidance and a range of related fields. School based career guidance.

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Master class on evaluation and impact for careers leaders

Adventures in Career Development

On Friday I had the privilege of running a workshop for careers leaders in Leicester. The workshop was based on our new edition of The Careers Leader Handbook , but focused in specifically on issues to do with data, evaluation and impact.

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My presentations at Careers Live, Leeds

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Last week I went to Leeds to present at the Careers Live event. It was great to be back in a room with so many people who were passionate about careers. The five signposts to a socially just career guidance Download Presentations careers careerslive five signposts leeds pandemic

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Understanding careers leadership

Adventures in Career Development

I got to give a lecture to new masters student at the University of Derby’s career development masters this weekend. Inevitably I was keen to talk about the new edition of The Careers Leaders Handbook. Careers leaders seminar presentation Download.

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Survey extended to 14th November: Careers in the construction industry

Adventures in Career Development

We have been running a survey on behalf of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) as part of a major new piece of research looking at careers in construction. We have had a really good response from careers professionals of all types. Photo by Monica Silvestre on Pexels.com.

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Launching The Careers Leader Handbook: Second Edition

Adventures in Career Development

Last night we held an official launch for the second edition of The Careers Leader Handbook. We spent the day running a workshop for over 30 careers leaders based on the book. We were also joined by many of our friends and the great and the good of the schools careers world.

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Jobs at the International Centre for Guidance Studies

Adventures in Career Development

iCeGS is a research centre based at the University of Derby with expertise in career and career guidance. If you are interested in working in careers research, this could be your chance… Apply for.

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Last chance to join the board of the ICCDPP this year

Adventures in Career Development

The International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy (ICCDPP) is a non-profit body committed to improving policies, strategies, and systems to strengthen career service provision around the world. The ICCDPP is seeking new board members with experience and expertise in policy development in career development and related fields e.g. public employment services, human resource management, education and training.

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Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries

Adventures in Career Development

It explores the rationalities advanced by 18 higher education institutions, located across eight countries, for developing and delivering employability provision.

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Workshop – The Careers Leaders Handbook: Second edition

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The new edition of The Careers Leader Handbook. On Monday 28th November we will be launching the Second Edition of The Careers Leader Handbook with a one day masterclass in careers leadership led by David Andrews and myself. careers hub lead.

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Talking to #WeAreCareers about The Careers Leaders Handbook

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We were talking about the role of careers leaders in schools and discussing the second edition of The Careers Leaders Handbook. If you haven’t come across #WeAreCareers before it is a brilliant YouTube show aimed at careers professionals and others with an interest in the field.

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Five New Year’s resolutions for busy careers leaders

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In it David Andrews and I suggest five New Year’s resolutions for careers leaders, inspired by our recent second edition of The Careers Leader Handbook. Being a Careers Leader is a great job, but you’ve probably found that there is always more to do than time to do it.

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A mission to break down the barriers to opportunity – OK but what does it mean?

Adventures in Career Development

Looking at that sentence I’d be hoping for reinvigoration of early years provision, investment in schools, strengthening vocational education, rebooting apprenticeships, reinvigorating workplace training and wider adult education and of course saying something meaningful on career guidance.

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The future of work. Will there be any jobs left for my children? (ISP parents workshop)

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More generally I’m using this as an opportunity to talk to parents about the role that they can play in supporting their children’s career development. I have been asked by the International Schools Partnership to run a couple of workshops for parents.

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Is it time for a change in career guidance?

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Why student employers should care about career guidance. Halfon has a long-standing interest in skills and careers and has met with the Institute of Student Employers a few times in the past.

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Survey: Careers professionals and the construction industry

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I am working with BMG Research and the Institute for Employment Studies on behalf of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) on a major new piece of research looking at careers in construction. News careers professionals Construction survey

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What the potential new Conservative leaders could mean for career guidance

Adventures in Career Development

So far there has (perhaps unsurprisingly) been little discussion of career guidance in the speeches and debates of candidates. But, his Plan for Jobs actually delivered very little career guidance. Neither of them ever seem to have said anything about career guidance that I can find.

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Careers leadership: An idea whose time has come

Adventures in Career Development

This article was written by David Andrews and myself and originally published on the Trotman Indigo website to announce the publication of The Careers Leader Handbook. Why careers matter. It is time for careers education. This person is a careers leader!

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Online panel session for people considering becoming NICEC fellows

Adventures in Career Development

We are interested in representing as many types of career development work as possible and having Fellows from diverse backgrounds and communities within the UK and internationally. Are you interested in applying to become a NICEC Fellow but have some questions?

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Digitally transforming ourselves! Responding to the rapid changes in technology and its application to career guidance and development services

Adventures in Career Development

The digitalization of career services and the use of digital tools by career practitioners have come under the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic.?The revolves around career guidance practice and public policy development with a special interest?on

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Supporting young people to do work experience in the NHS 

Adventures in Career Development

In this guest post, Rachel Wright of Health Education England invites teachers, career advisors and work experience coordinators to provide input on work-experience in the NHS.

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Guest post from ChatGPT: Career guidance policy in England

Adventures in Career Development

I asked it to write 600 words on ‘Career guidance policy in England’ Below you will find what it came up with. Career guidance plays a crucial role in helping young people make informed decisions about their future.

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New briefing paper from @theCDI – Learning and skills for economic recovery, social cohesion and a more equal Britain (The Blunkett Report)

Adventures in Career Development

I have just written a briefing paper for the Career Development Institute looking at Lord Blunkett’s report for the Labour Party, Learning and skills for economic recovery, social cohesion and a more equal Britain. There is no careers strategy. David Blunkett.

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Education select committee

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Yesterday I appeared in front of the Education Select Committee to discuss career guidance policy in England. Do we need the Careers and Enterprise Company and so on.

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