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Careering from cradle to grave

Adventures in Career Development

While I was there I was involved in lots of sessions, including a very interesting panel and World Cafe session organised by NOLOC on agency and career management. I also co-hosted a workshop with Rie Thomsen on critical theory, which we’ve written up on the Career guidance for social justice website.

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The Benefits of Becoming a Non-Exec Board Member: Advancing Your Career and Network

She Owns Success

Becoming a non-executive board member offers a rewarding avenue for professionals looking to enrich their careers and drive meaningful change. Your experience and skills help steer organizations toward success, providing governance, strategic direction, and invaluable oversight. Is your next career move waiting in the boardroom?

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Imagine if career guidance and employability could join forces

Adventures in Career Development

As employability professionals you are probably aware of the existence of the National Careers Service and the wider world of career guidance. Career guidance professionals work with clients to help them to manage their life, learning and work, to develop and articulate their skills and to make career decisions and transitions.

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Investing in careers: What is career guidance worth?

Adventures in Career Development

We note that effective career guidance is associated with a range of economic and social benefits and argue that ultimately higher employment, better skills alignment, increased productivity and improved employee engagement pay off at the national level for government, in terms of a well-functioning economy and improved tax returns.

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Guest post: Secondary school teachers and careers: Implications for training and CPD

Adventures in Career Development

Through the informal conversations and more formal reviews that form tutors have with students, and the links that subject teachers make between the curriculum and careers, all teachers contribute to young people’s career development.

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Top posts of 2023

Adventures in Career Development

University management generally took a different perspective. While I was there I gave a keynote entitled Careering from cradle to grave in which I told some career stories and made the argument that careers matter and career guidance should be at the heart of government policy.

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

Adventures in Career Development

Earlier this week Kier Starmer set out his big vision for a Labour Government in what was trailed as a major speech. If you want to watch the whole speech, including an extended football analogy in which Starmer channels Ron Manager then here it is. Instead what it presents is a business school model for project management.