Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We discussed the value of thinking about career, career development and career guidance to the achievement of a range of policy aims for African countries. We presented the career development framework that we developed for the ILO last year and talked about the range of ways that it could be used in policy and practice.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Mapping the future of undergraduate career education (pp.138-154). It is also worth having a look at Tom Staunton and I’s chapter on the the role of digital technologies in career guidance. The role of digital technology in career development. The Oxford Handbook of Career Development (pp.297-311).

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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 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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JANUARY 26, 2024

Welcome to a game-changer in employee learning – Safety and Career Development Training Online Course Library. In response to the pressing demand for heightened workforce safety and career development, companies are seeking to make an immediate impact in growing safety awareness and enhancing job skills.

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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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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Today I’m at the University of Stockholm talking about the career guidance for social justice approach. 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

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It explores the rationalities advanced by 18 higher education institutions, located across eight countries, for developing and delivering employability provision. Download the article from the Higher Education website. The article is available in open access in the journal Higher Education.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 12, 2023

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. 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.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 17, 2022

We have updated the handbook to take account of all of these changes and to pull together all the information and ideas careers leaders need to establish outstanding careers programmes for their students. You might be interested in attending if you are a: careers leaders in a school or college. careers hub lead.

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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

APRIL 2, 2025

Anyway… a few weeks ago I had an amazing trip to Maynooth in Ireland to talk about career guidance policy and social justice. Adult guidance policy Download The second was a workshop in which we looked at social justice and critical approaches to guidance. It was an honour to visit. While I was there I gave two talks.

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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

JUNE 3, 2025

What does it mean to have a career, and should we always follow our dreams? In this new book published by Aarhus University Press , Rie Thomsen and I discuss what the concept of career can offer to all of us in our lives.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to attend the Black Country Careers Hub conference and give a keynote and a workshop. It was a great opportunity to meet careers leaders and to have the chance to network with a wide range of people involved in careers in schools.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 4, 2022

As part of my visit I’ve been asked to talk about career and in particular about academic careers. While I’ve not done a lot of formal research into academic careers, I have been conducting an ongoing action research project (aka my life) on working in and with universities for the last 20-30 years.

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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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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

On Monday I had the opportunity to go and talk about career and career guidance with a group of third year Education Studies students at the University of Derby. Why career matters… Download So that is what I tried to say. For anyone who is interested, here are the slides that I used.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Today I ran a workshop on career guidance in schools for the CDANZ conference in Auckland, New Zealand. In it I tried to distil down the learning that we’ve had from 12-13 years of a school based career guidance system in England and use it to prompt some thinking about how colleagues might want to develop things in New Zealand.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

I’ve just finished teaching a session on career guidance policy at the University of Derby. In many of their countries career guidance receives little or no support from the government. This is what I had to say to kick the discussion off… Career guidance policy 2022 Download.

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Adventures in Career Development

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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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As anyone who has ever taught a career theory course will know, it can be a challenging thing to teach. Career theory is supposed to help people to make the complexity of career simpler. Careers are endlessly complex and yet we have to make sense of them every day. Has anyone else worked with Illeris in careers yet?

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JANUARY 20, 2023

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In this article I set out an approach to career counselling informed by social justice theories and the political economists Laclau and Mouffe and Hardt and Negri. Anyway, this is what I’m planning to do… Counselling for a career imaginary Download.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 1, 2025

I talked about career as our pathway into the future and argued that we need to think about the future critically and positively as we plot our own careers into it. Next I asked them about how important they felt it was to have decided on a career by the time they left university.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 23, 2024

In it we talked about career guidance and social justice, paid tribute to the work of Ronald Sultana and set out our five signposts model. Career education for social justice and equity Download Last week, Rie Thomsen and I gave a webinar to practitioners in Australia via MyFuture.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 24, 2024

This builds on the paper that I published with the OECD earlier this year called Challenging social inequality through career guidance. Can technologically mediated career guidance address inequalities Download It was a very good conference which will hopefully be published in full online.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 31, 2023

Today I’m in Stockholm at the New Scenes for Career Guidance conference. 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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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. People seemed to like it!

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 16, 2025

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. Purposeful career guidance Download I also gave a workshop in which I focused in on one-to-one guidance (counselling and coaching) approaches.

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Adventures in Career Development

JANUARY 28, 2024

2024 Call for papers Download You can find out more by visiting the NICEC website. 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

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The WPR approach – Derby theory session Download A couple of days ago, I gave a presentation to colleagues at Derby on Bacchi’s WPR approach. If you are not familiar with this approach, it is essentially a way of analysing policies and other kinds of document and discourse in a critical and analytical way.

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Adventures in Career Development

APRIL 12, 2022

The book explores trends and possibilities for undergraduate career education, the nature of the changing workplace, and its impact on students in colleges and universities. Mapping the future – flyer Download. The book is edited by Melanie Buford, Michael Sharp, and Michael Stebleton and should be out in July.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The TEC invests over $3 billion into tertiary education and supporting the tertiary and careers system every year. The TEC has recently launched a National Careers System Strategy which sets out New Zealand’s approach to developing its career guidance system over the next few years.

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Adventures in Career Development

APRIL 30, 2025

But, I was also struck by the fact that these were detailed and bespoke developments within the context of specific businesses and business processes. AI is clearly not a magic cure-all, and it remains critical to keep human beings in the loop, particularly during development.

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Adventures in Career Development

APRIL 4, 2022

I was presenting with Peter Plant , who really originated the concept of green guidance and has recently published a new article on this idea in the Nordic Journal of Careers and Transition Research. I hope that you find it useful… Green guidance presentation to CDI Download.

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