Adventures in Career Development

MAY 17, 2023

This morning I gave my keynote presentation to the Asia Pacific Career Development Association conference. The conference is focused on giving participants a new look at careers in a rapidly changing world. Predicting the future in turbulent times Download The hubris!).

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 8, 2023

In it we were investigating European practice in the career development of researchers. As some of you may know this is an area that I have a long standing interest in, as it is where I got my start in career development. Preparing young researchers for their career Download

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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. But for now these are my slides from the session.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 17, 2022

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. In general my message is that parents should talk about careers more, but try not to turn this into a big summit about the young person’s future.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 15, 2024

I’m sharing them here in case anyone is interested in looking at how all of this stuff is developing. Career guidance and social justice (Norsk) Download Environmentally sustainable guidance (Norsk) Download Wandering through the guidance gardens of the world (English) Download

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Adventures in Career Development

APRIL 29, 2024

Hybrid working and integrated guidance Download I’m hopeful that there will be a video of the webinar that I can share in the future. But for now, I’ll just share our slides in case they are of interest to anyone.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 30, 2023

I chose the topic of ‘Careering from cradle to grave’ and put together a presentation which argues, firstly that career needs to be understood broadly as our path throughout life, secondly that we need to give people help throughout their lives as they develop their career.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 28, 2017

You need time to get to know one another as human beings and to focus on long-term goals and career development. You can download the free MIT Huddle Planner here. Of course, you need more than 10 minutes a week to build a great relationship with your manager.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

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. In the paper I describe the vision that Blunkett’s paper sets out for the career development system.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 18, 2023

Today I am with my co-authors Chris Percy and Siobhan Neary, presenting the new iCeGS paper in parliament with the aim of engaging policy makers in thinking about, and ultimately funding and improving the career guidance system. The new paper is available to download for those that are interested in reading it in full.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Introduction to career theories Download Theories of motivation Download Applying theory to a life story – Lilyhammer Download They are all in my bad Norwegian I’m afraid, but they might be of interest to show you how I tried to work with some of these concepts in the course.

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Career guidance, social justice and supporting youth transitions Download I recorded a version of my remarks, which is now available on YouTube. My slides are also available if you want them.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I think that it is really important that education studies recognises the importance of career as a conceptual lens for thinking about education and career guidance as an important educational practice. Why career matters… Download So that is what I tried to say.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 12, 2023

It was great to be back in a room with so many people who were passionate about careers. This is what I had to say in my keynote… Career guidance after the pandemic Download I also gave a workshop based on our five signposts model. The five signposts to a socially just career guidance Download

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 17, 2022

Why does careers matter for your school Download. Evaluating your schools careers programme Download. I presented a keynote on why it all matters and then spent the afternoon talking to people about evaluation. The slides from both of my sessions are included below.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This is what I had to say if you want to see more… Download As well as discussing some of the key rationales for engaging with these from the perspectives of policy makers I also tried to show the challenges that policy focused interventions create for practice.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Here are the slides that I used… Investing in career guidance Download Investment is needed in order to make that a reality. An obvious message, but one which governments and policy makers need to be constantly reminded of.

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Adventures in Career Development

JANUARY 28, 2024

2024 Call for papers Download Bookings are now open (information on the event page ) and it is possible to attend either face-to-face or virtually. You are also invited to submit a workshop. The call for papers follows.

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Adventures in Career Development

AUGUST 16, 2023

Online research methods Download This draws heavily on the book that Rachel Buchanan and I have just finished writing, but which won’t be published until next year. So if you want a sneak peak, here is the workshop.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is what I’ve got to say… Career guidance for social justice Download. This has made me think about what it is trying to achieve and how we have got here. I feel that the story has come a long way.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m also sharing my slides from the session… Building good career guidance in schools Download If you are somewhere else then Amazon is always a good bet, or go to the source and buy it from the Trotman website.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 24, 2023

This is what I had to say… Leading careers in schools Download I also had the opportunity to run a workshop, in which I explored the evaluation of career programmes in schools and colleges.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In both of the workshops I was able to draw on material from the newly published Second Edition of The Careers Leaders Handbook. This is what I had to say… Building a whole school vision for your careers programme Download. Developing an inclusive and diverse careers programme Download.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 17, 2023

The full presentation is at… Employability in higher education Download I decided to base the presentation on the article that I wrote with Lizzie Knight and Dawn Bennett entitled Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The audience was a mix of business people, people involved in vocational education and pathways and school’s careers professionals. This is what I had to say… The future of career Download People seemed to like it!

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 6, 2023

This is what I had to say today… The need for green guidance Download Once again I’m talking about green guidance, which I’m finding increasingly interesting and worthy of much more discussion and research.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Careers leader evaluation workshop from Leicester (PowerPoint slides) Download As ever with these workshops I learnt a lot more than I taught and I was very lucky to be co-teaching with some of the LEP staff from Leicester. Here are the slides that I used in case they are any use to anyone.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Download the article from the Higher Education website. The technocratic and humanistic rationalities dominate, with the emancipatory rationality weakly represented in the data. However, in many cases, the different rationalities are woven together, often for tactical reasons, to create bespoke institutional rationalities.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 18, 2022

I had the opportunity to talk to a range of academics with diverse interests and to try and convince them that career and career guidance are really important. This is what I had to say… The concept of career (CCU presentation) Download. I gave it my best shot!

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

This is what I had to say to kick the discussion off… Career guidance policy 2022 Download. This opened up some really interesting questions about why government would be involved in this area at all.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 31, 2023

Have a look on the Career guidance for Social Justice website at all of the posts that we’ve been adding about green guidance recently. This is what I’m planning to cover this afternoon… The need for green guidance Download

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These were the slides that I used… The importance of investing in a careers system Download My core message (as always) was that countries need to build a high quality lifelong guidance system and that investment is needed in order to make that a reality.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You might be interested in attending if you are a: careers leaders in a school or college. school or college senior leaders with overall responsibility for careers. careers hub lead. provider of careers leader training. strategic careers lead working in a MATs, local authority or careers company.

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The WPR approach – Derby theory session Download You might also want to look at my presentation, which is a fairly basic take on it, but which explores how it can be used in education research.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 11, 2022

Nonetheless it was a very good event and shows that interest in social justice within careers theory and practice is gradually moving around the globe. This is what I had to say… Career guidance and social justice Download.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This is what I’m going to say… The five signposts presentation Download. I’m going to focus on the five signposts model and try and show how we can turn these ideas into something really practical.

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JULY 6, 2022

Can we deliver social justice (Powerpoint presentation) Download. I then tried to set out some practice ideas for how this could be done, by drawing on the five signposts model. This is the presentation. As ever feel free to borrow and repurpose as it is useful to you.

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