Adventures in Career Development

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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. Also on the panel were Dr Rebecca Montacute (The Sutton Trust), Alice Barnard (Edge Foundation) and Chris Percy (Researcher). Is Gatsby really useful?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

NICEC is holding a seminar on the 29th November entitled The Future of Undergraduate Careers Education. The event will see Melanie Buford and Michael Stebleton , two of the editors of the recently released book Mapping the Future of Undergraduate Career Education (Routledge), discussing the origins and key points of the book.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

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. Membership is open to all. Deadline for applications: 9 January 2023.

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the challenges women face in career development, particularly regarding self-confidence. In my over 20 years of career, I’ve observed my female peers sometimes even myself, struggle with self-confidence, which significantly impacts our ability to advance in our careers.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

With a new Prime Minister and King, a controversial mini-budget, a plummeting pound and the hoopla of party conferences, even the most dedicated follower of politics might be forgiven for missing the start of the House of Commons Education Select Committees inquiry into Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG).

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MAY 19, 2022

If you haven’t seen the Insights series it well worth a look as it boils down cutting edge research into short 2-4 page summaries for teachers and careers professional. Delivering career education in the post-pandemic world. There are lots of papers already published.

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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. So that is what I tried to say. For anyone who is interested, here are the slides that I used.

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APRIL 12, 2022

I’m really pleased to be able to contribute to an exciting new book entitled Mapping the future of undergraduate career education published by Routledge. 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.

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Adventures in Career Development

JANUARY 8, 2024

The context for this is that the Labour Party has made a commitment to make people who pay for private education to pay some tax on school fees. Private schooling isn’t a career guidance issue and so why am I talking about it. Over the last couple of weeks there has been renewed debate about the UK’s private schools.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 12, 2022

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. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling. Enjoy diving in!

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Professor Jaana Kettunen (Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER) of the University of Jyväskylä). 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 iCeGS annual lecture 2022. Book your place. Dr. Jaana Kettunen?is

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Pete is a fellow of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC) and President Elect of the Career Development Institute (CDI). The lecture is entitled Career Development as Freedom. The key role of autonomy and freedom in ethical practice will be highlighted.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 6, 2022

It was a great privilege to be asked by Tom Richmond to talk about career education on the EDSK podcast, Inside your ED. It was really great to be able to go into a bit of depth about the history of recent careers policy and to consider what we could learn from it. Hopefully a few politicians are listening.

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MARCH 30, 2023

Photo by Ingo Joseph on Pexels.com We have just received funding for a new PhD project entitled Educating people in deprived communities – What’s the problem represented to be. It will centre on a school or other educational setting, exploring how the area in which the school is located is understood by local stakeholders (e.g.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 29, 2023

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. investmet Career guidance for adults = 0.9x-109.6x

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Last week I posted an article on FE News in which I made some polite suggestions for what the forthcoming education select committee inquiry should say about career guidance. This is what I had to say… The Education Select Committee has recently launched a new inquiry into career education, information, advice and guidance.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Suzanne Rice and I have just published a new new paper entitled How can and should secondary school teachers be involved inbuilding students career knowledge and skills? Synthesis: The role of the secondary school teacher in career development All secondary schools should take a whole school approach to careers.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels.com Thank you to David Andrews (Visiting Fellow at iCeGS) and co-author of The Careers Leader Handbook for this guest post. David Andrews For many years it has been argued that every teacher is a teacher of careers. I would argue yes, but we should not rely on this alone.

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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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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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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Break down the barriers to opportunity at every stage for every child, by reforming the childcare and education systems, raising standards everywhere, and preparing young people for work and life. Predictably Guardian columnists like Polly Toynbee loved it. The centre of his speech was Labour’s new five missions.

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International Coach Academy

JULY 31, 2023

However, men still make up a majority of mid-career professionals in tech. Ethnicity: There is also a lack of diversity in terms of ethnicity in the tech industry, with the majority of mid-career professionals in tech being White or Asian. It took us six different sessions over which we explored the model in parts.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 11, 2024

But it is worth calling attention to the work of the Career Development Policy Group. This group is a coalition of careers sector organisations and stakeholders who campaign to influence policy. The main proposal that the group has made is called the Career Guidance Guarantee. I hope that you find it useful.

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Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A Research from LinkedIn workplace study revealed that 94% of employees would stay longer at companies that invest in their career development and celebrate these achievement moments. HR can support by providing access to the right resources, training, and professional development.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

They thus help - Prioritize initiatives based on employee feedback Allocate resources more effectively Develop targeted strategies to enhance workplace satisfaction Enhance Employee Engagement: High employee morale is closely linked to increased engagement and productivity. Do you feel encouraged to pursue further training and education?

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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. Other countries are much earlier on the journey of developing a culture of researcher development.

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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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JULY 2, 2024

There is also a recognition that the structure for people’s careers are getting more complex and that there is a need to respond to this through changes in the education system. But, no specific mention of careers education or guidance.

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MARCH 10, 2024

I’ve just been involved in a new OECD paper entitled Challenging social inequality through career guidance: Insights from international data and practice. This report focuses on school-level career guidance systems and examines how they can more effectively respond to social inequalities. To find out more see… Jeon, S.,

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JANUARY 31, 2024

For those people who aren’t in UK higher education, this post might be a little strange, please feel free to skip. Why the UCU matters The UCU is the union for higher and further education workers in the UK. Even for those who are in UKHE the fact that there is an election going on might come as a bit of a surprise.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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. In it we discuss the publication of the handbook and why we think that the development of the concept of careers leadership has been so important.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 16, 2023

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. So, taking strike action isn’t a form of charity , it is the best way of moving forwards my career and my standard of living.

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Adventures in Career Development

APRIL 11, 2025

Yes, there major funding problems for higher education which are leading to a rise in redundancies , but it is difficult not to feel that university leaderships are using the opportunity of other institutions going down this path to disguise their own redundancies. Readers of this blog will be aware that I am based at the University of Derby.

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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

JUNE 24, 2024

To understand this, it is necessary to understand the relationship between Job Centres and career guidance services, and how it has evolved. They were deeply integrated into educational institutions. A cultural gulf The cultural gulf between career services and Job Centres is considerable. Have we been here before?

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