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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Yestersday, I had the opportunity to present to the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) in Wellington, New Zealand. The TEC is a Crown Agency which leads the Government’s relationship with the tertiary education sector in New Zealand and provides career services from education to employment.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 23, 2024

Career education for social justice and equity Download There seemed to be a lot of interest in these approaches. We will hopefully be able to share a video version of our presentation soon, but for now here are our slides.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Essentially this is about how we can incorporate technologies into guidance and careers education in a purposeful way using ideas of instructional design. Mapping the future of undergraduate career education (pp.138-154). The role of digital technology in career development. Stebleton (Eds.) Routledge.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 16, 2025

A couple of weeks ago I was asked to give a couple of presentations at the Growing great education conference at Canterbury Christ Church University. I began with a keynote in which I looked at ‘purposeful career guidance’ and thought out loud for a bit about what career guidance is for and how we can make it more purposeful.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 8, 2023

In late 2022 and early 2023 I undertook a small research project on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate for Skills and Higher Education. In it we were investigating European practice in the career development of researchers. Preparing young researchers for their career Download

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In particularly I focused on education, employment/economic and social themes. This is what I had to say if you want to see more… Download

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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 8, 2024

On Monday I was invited to speak at the Norwegian National Forum for Career Guidance in Oslo. This is the annual meeting between the government’s Higher Education and Skills Directorate (HK-Dir) and key stakeholders including employers, trade unions, regional leaders in career guidance and the professional association.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While I recognise that there are lots of challenges ahead, I think that it is important to give people optimism and agency and the belief that they can take positive actions to improve their lives and support the development of their society. This is what I had to say… The future of career Download

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 18, 2024

About the research Suzanne and I have been conducting a Delphi study to explore secondary teacher’s roles in careers education. We have noted that the existing literature on careers education in schools emphasises the importance of embedding career learning in the school and in the wider curriculum.

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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. The WPR approach – Derby theory session Download If you are interested in it, there is a short article by Bacchi herself that explains the basic ideas and summarises how it can be used.

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Adventures in Career Development

APRIL 30, 2025

Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit Sherwood Observatory as part of a meeting of local government, business and education stakeholders. I also made a contribution where I talked about the likely impacts that AI and automation will have on the labour market and careers.

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I spent a fair bit of the year arguing that people who worked in higher education deserved to have decent pay and not to get steadily poorer. People seem to have liked it because a lot of people have been downloading the PowerPoint. 7 During the pandemic I made a bunch of videos explaining different aspects of career theory.

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Vantage Circle

JULY 20, 2020

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At the end of the conference (they have to attend at least 10 hours), they then write a blog post discussing the future of work and what it means for them and their careers. The whole thing was very buzzy, with lecture theatres packed and speakers coming in and out throughout the day.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Martin Seligman’s work on positive psychology also influenced my approach to career development. Educationplanner.org has a basic tool for initial looks at first careers or choosing a degree or study path. It is brief, free, and can be done online or downloaded as PDF. Which careers are growing and which are lagging?

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Yesterday I was set to fly to South Korea to address the Jeju education for designing a happy future conference. In it presenters talked about the future and how to make sure that the education system prepared young people for the future and also tried to ensure that it will be a happy future. So, this is what I had to say.

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