Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The presentation follows, but essentially it consists of me talking about the 5 signposts model that I developed with Rie Thomsen and Ronald Sultana, and Keren using this framework to provide a deeper example of her social justice work with neurodiverse students.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

I gave a keynote about the nature of careers and careers work and tried to remind everyone that this is complex and important work. Hooley-Breaking through Download This is what I had to say.

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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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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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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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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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Adventures in Career Development

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 5, 2024

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). Hooley, T., & Staunton, T. Robertson, T. Hooley, T., & P.

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Vector Solutions

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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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Today I presented on ‘career guidance, social justice and supporting youth transitions’ at the Kenyan National Conference on Career Guidance and Development. Career guidance, social justice and supporting youth transitions Download I recorded a version of my remarks, which is now available on YouTube.

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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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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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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 15, 2024

I’m sharing them here in case anyone is interested in looking at how all of this stuff is developing.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In both of the workshops I was able to draw on material from the newly published Second Edition of The Careers Leaders Handbook. This is what I had to say… Building a whole school vision for your careers programme Download. Developing an inclusive and diverse careers programme 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

JULY 17, 2022

Why does careers matter for your school Download. Evaluating your schools careers programme Download. I presented a keynote on why it all matters and then spent the afternoon talking to people about evaluation. The slides from both of my sessions are included below.

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JULY 17, 2023

On Friday I was asked to present on Employability in higher education: Exploring contested rationalities at the Employability in programme development congress in Barcelona. The full presentation is at… Employability in higher education Download

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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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OCTOBER 31, 2022

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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APRIL 2, 2025

Adult guidance policy Download The second was a workshop in which we looked at social justice and critical approaches to guidance. Critical approaches to career guidance Download Hopefully some of this will be of interest and thanks again to Maynooth for hosting me. This is what I covered.

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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

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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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You might be interested in attending if you are a: careers leaders in a school or college. school or college senior leaders with overall responsibility for careers. careers hub lead. provider of careers leader training. strategic careers lead working in a MATs, local authority or careers company.

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Adventures in Career Development

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. This is what I had to say… The future of career Download

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 12, 2023

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. The five signposts to a socially just career guidance Download

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This was mainly Sikin’s idea, but we’ve been developing and exploring it together. In this version of career theory we’ve been viewing theory as a series of different issues or concerns that are held in tension and relation to one another. So, we’ve been playing with another way to think about and teach theory.

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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

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

MAY 4, 2022

However, I’ve put together a presentation which draws on a range of career theories to try and uses my life and career as the object of study. This is what I plan to say… Twisted academic careers Download. Hopefully this will prove to be interesting to the researchers from TIAS.

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APRIL 12, 2022

Mapping the future – flyer Download. I have contributed a chapter on the future of work entitled ‘the future isn’t what it used to be! Please encourage your institutions to pre-order a copy of the book. Further information is found in the flyer.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I think that it is really important that education studies recognises the importance of career as a conceptual lens for thinking about education and career guidance as an important educational practice. Why career matters… Download So that is what I tried to say.

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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 what I’m planning to say.

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MAY 23, 2024

Career education for social justice and equity Download There seemed to be a lot of interest in these approaches. We will hopefully be able to share a video version of our presentation soon, but for now here are our slides.

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MAY 24, 2024

Can technologically mediated career guidance address inequalities Download It was a very good conference which will hopefully be published in full online. In the meantime, here are the slides that I used.

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MARCH 18, 2024

While, this is not the place to present our results in detail, a brief summary would be that there is consensus that all teachers should have a role in developing students’ career knowledge and skills. How can and should non-careers secondary teachers be involved in building students’ career knowledge and skills?

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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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