Adventures in Career Development

MAY 24, 2024

On Wednesday I was invited to address the OECD’s conference Future dreaming: Career guidance in the age of digital technologies. This builds on the paper that I published with the OECD earlier this year called Challenging social inequality through career guidance. In the meantime, here are the slides that I used.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Photo by Merlin Lightpainting on Pexels.com I spend a lot of last week teaching career theory in Lillehammer with my colleague Sikin Jynge. 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.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 15, 2024

I’m going to be talking about Flourishing while careering in an imperfect world. Flourishing while careering through an imperfect world Download This is part of my role as a visiting professor at CCCU. This is what I’m planning to say.

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

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

I was invited to give some guest lectures to their students and to present a paper to their research group on career guidance. I’ve had a great time talking career guidance and research with all of the team and come away thoroughly inspired.

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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. Neither online, nor face-to-face, but integrated career guidance: Introducing new ways of engaging undergraduate students in career learning and reflective careering.

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JUNE 30, 2023

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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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 There seemed to be a lot of interest in these approaches.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

On Saturday I was teaching on the University of Derby’s Masters in Career Guidance and Development. We’ve recently deepened our discussion of career guidance policy and so I reworked the session that I’ve done in the past to focus on some of the big themes that have guided career guidance policy over the years.

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International Coach Academy

MARCH 2, 2023

A Research Paper By Sharee S Wells, Career Obstacles Coach, UNITED STATES A Toolkit for Ensuring Positive Career Choices As Henry Thoreau said, The mass of men lives of quiet desperation… The phrase is often used to speak of not following one’s passion. A few find their bliss and turn that into their new career. Others flounder.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 18, 2024

Photo by fauxels on Pexels.com On the 4 th October 2023 Suzanne Rice and I convened an expert round table to discuss the role of secondary teachers in building students career skills and knowledge. About the research Suzanne and I have been conducting a Delphi study to explore secondary teacher’s roles in careers education.

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Adventures in Career Development

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 9, 2023

I have just had the opportunity to present to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce about the importance of career and the future of work. 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

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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

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

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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JULY 17, 2022

I had a great day last week at the West of England careers hub. It was so good to be out and about again, talking to teachers and careers advisers. The West of England careers hub event was so interesting, with input from careers professionals, teachers, senior leaders in schools, employers and local politicians.

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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

MAY 24, 2023

Today I had the opportunity to address a room full of careers leaders in Gloucester. You want cold hard careers content, so here you go. Firstly I gave a key note setting out some of the history of careers leadership, reflecting on current challenges and looking forwards to the future.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The new edition of The Careers Leader Handbook. On Monday 28th November we will be launching the Second Edition of The Careers Leader Handbook with a one day masterclass in careers leadership led by David Andrews and myself. You might be interested in attending if you are a: careers leaders in a school or college.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. The TEC invests over $3 billion into tertiary education and supporting the tertiary and careers system every year.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’ve been participating in a very interesting Nordic network which is focusing on the policies, politics, systems and organisations involved in the development of career guidance. Today we’re meeting in Helsinki to discuss the role of policy in career guidance and to explore possibilities for further research.

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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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OCTOBER 27, 2022

This time I’m doing something pretty new, which is based on my recent article Building a radical career imaginary: using Laclau and Mouffe and Hardt and Negri to reflexively re-read Ali and Graham’s counselling approach to career guidance.

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Create Your Career Path

AUGUST 30, 2022

Support your alumni easily with an incredibly engaging career coaching speaker. Certified Career Coach and webinar presenter since 2002, Hallie Crawford has a variety of professional topics and is seeking additional university partners. She has been a Certified Career Coach for 22 years and has been hosting webinars for over 10 years.

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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

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

MARCH 27, 2023

On Friday I had the privilege of running a workshop for careers leaders in Leicester. The workshop was based on our new edition of The Careers Leader Handbook , but focused in specifically on issues to do with data, evaluation and impact. Careers leader evaluation workshop from Leicester (PowerPoint slides) Download

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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

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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JUNE 1, 2023

The conference is subtitled ‘International lessons on how schools can best equip students for their working lives’ and takes a broad and evidence based look at career guidance and related areas that support school-to-work transitions. Challenging disadvantage Download

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MAY 11, 2022

Yesterday I was asked to present to an event on career guidance and social justice at the Festival of Europe in Florence. 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.

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