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How can and should secondary school teachers be involved inbuilding students’ career knowledge and skills?

Adventures in Career Development

The level of funding and resources for the area needs to be increased alongside an increased focus on careers education in the schools accountabilities. In secondary schools a member of the senior leadership team should have clear accountability for careers and sufficient expertise to lead the schools programme.

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4 Types of questions get us in trouble | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

If you want emotional validation or in-depth individual career counseling, you're in the wrong place. I don't think you have the slightest idea how much time it would take for PT to do this with every single question someone asks her — and expects her to answer for free.

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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Many folks don't realize that in addition to the on-campus interviewing focus seen at many universities, career centers help students to assess their skills/interests/values through programming and one-on-one work–and in doing so, attempting to reach a wide range of academic majors and student subpopulations.

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