Adventures in Career Development

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 26, 2025

Vision and leadership national visions for guidance are clearly articulated in policy, supported by multiple government departments, and aligned to implementation plans. These six features of good practice can be summarised as follows. Read the report

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 2, 2024

This will be underpinned by substantial investment in research and skills development. There is lots to like for me in this manifesto, but of course the party are very unlikely to form the next government. But what do they have to say about careers related topics. My DMs remain open!

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Adventures in Career Development

JANUARY 31, 2024

The pursuit of collective action and an engagement in democracy is central to my beliefs about what effective career development is and what should be included in careers education, so view this post as an attempt for me to walk the walk. Some people have blamed Jo for the partial failure of the last campaign.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 13, 2024

As they are the party most likely to form the new government it is important to think about what it means for the careers sector. Firstly the commitment to arbitrary fiscal rules may prove to be a serious limiter on the capacity of the government to act.

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Adventures in Career Development

AUGUST 30, 2022

He also writes professional books, runs the website Career guidance for social justice , as well as the blog Adventures in Career Development. Will make a difference with career guidance. in English literature, it was quite by chance that Hooley became curious about the career guidance field. With a Ph.d.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 18, 2023

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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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 11, 2023

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Skills, Careers and Employment is partnering with the Career Development Policy Group (CDPG) on a parliamentary roundtable event to explore the proposal of a “Career Guidance Guarantee” for England. You can book to attend on Eventbright.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 13, 2022

She hasn’t said a lot about career guidance, but I did find an intervention into a debate in 2011 while the then Conservative government were slashing and burning the existing careers system. On the other hand Truss seemed to really warm up to the Govean line of bashing careers advisers, so watch out.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Why student employers should care about career guidance. Parliamentary Select Committees exist to scrutinise the work of government. Career guidance is part of the solution to problems that we hear employers articulating to the ISE regularly.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 24, 2024

This experience clearly demonstrates that there can be tensions between the career adviser role and bureaucratic objectives of the PES agency. The Labour Party are proposing to bring career guidance into Job Centre Plus services by integrating them with the National Careers Service. It is well placed to respond quickly.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In many of their countries career guidance receives little or no support from the government. This opened up some really interesting questions about why government would be involved in this area at all. 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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. I was asked to visit the TEC and talk to them and other government and NGO representatives about international policy and practice in career guidance.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Meanwhile the government is promising people that it will ‘revolutionise post-16 education, reshape the training landscape and help the nation build back better.’ For governments achieving some kind of equitable alignment between the supply and demand for skills and labour has never been more important. Build a strategy.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 15, 2024

I started with the current government (pretty much ignores careers), then went to the Labour Party (not bad on career, but not so good on the wider economic and public sector picture). So, I guess now it is time for the Liberal Democrats.

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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

MARCH 30, 2023

The project focuses on localities designated as ‘deprived’ by government initiatives such as the ‘opportunity areas’ or ‘levelling up’. young people, parents, teachers, teaching assistants, career guidance professionals, youth workers, educational welfare workers, employers and local policy makers).

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We have two more years of this government and they are clearly not going to change things without a lot of pressure. I’m on strike because I want UK higher education to be better and to be somewhere that nurtures ideas, develops students and provides a platform for great and exciting research.

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 22, 2023

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. 7 During the pandemic I made a bunch of videos explaining different aspects of career theory.

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 28, 2024

Development - Once an employee is settled in, the focus is shifted to developing their skills, competencies, and leadership abilities through training and mentorship programs. Engaged employees showcase their passion for work, are committed to the organization’s goals, and develop a sense of purpose toward its mission.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Information was drawn from a wide range of sources with government provided LMI, resources provided by the CITB and direct engagement with employers the most popular. The overwhelming majority (85%, up from 83% in 2022) of careers practitioners were confident in supporting their students and clients to explore the construction industry.

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She Owns Success

JANUARY 28, 2024

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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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Earlier this week Kier Starmer set out his big vision for a Labour Government in what was trailed as a major speech. Predictably Guardian columnists like Polly Toynbee loved it. Toynbee declared that it revealed ‘a man serious about being prime minister’ Which to be fair has not ever been in doubt.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Photo by Lukas on Pexels.com You wait for ages for a high-stakes, policy-relevant, if somewhat underwhelming, report on the state of career guidance to come along, and then two come along at once. So, in this post I’m going to try and break down what it says and reflect on what it means for the long term.

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Vantage Circle

MAY 29, 2023

People sustainability refers to the practice of nurturing and maintaining the well-being, engagement, and development of individuals within an organization. So, let's delve deep on how you can cultivate a culture of people sustainability that nurtures growth and development for you and your employees. Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

This is particularly the case when, as I wrote in a piece on the Career guidance for social justice blog , public sector wages are being deliberately held down by the government below the market rate. Unions help us to level the playing field and serve as a critical check on the behaviour of employers. So what is actually on the table?

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The Coaching Tools Company

MAY 28, 2024

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Vantage Circle

JULY 21, 2020

It has positive effects on employee input, career development, employee satisfaction , etc. The government of a nation mostly follows a leadership of such form. It is because this improves employee training and development. This is always crucial from a worker's viewpoint to grow a career. Know your Weakness.

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 28, 2024

Development - Once an employee is settled in, the focus is shifted to developing their skills, competencies, and leadership abilities through training and mentorship programs. Engaged employees showcase their passion for work, are committed to the organization’s goals, and develop a sense of purpose toward its mission.

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In the meantime the REF process has been delayed until 2029 and lots of the rules that are going to govern the final assessment process have not actually come out yet.

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Vantage Circle

AUGUST 16, 2021

The United States is one of the few countries where the government allows employers to offer tax-deferred retirement accounts. Career Development. If we go by the recent trends , millennials and Gen Z are looking for more than just a steady paycheck with their careers. Also Read: Why Employee Development Matters in 2021.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 23, 2024

Unsurprisingly the blame is placed at the feet of the political establishment (where they have a point), wasteful government (which is probably more difficult to address than they suggest) and immigrants (which is clearly stretching the truth, but is entirely expected).

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Vantage Circle

JULY 13, 2021

The total rewards program should incorporate a comprehensive benefits package beyond the minimums mandated by the federal government. Professional Development. Provide a professional development program that gives them a chance for continuous learning and develop their skills. Source: Clear Company.

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 8, 2023

To ensure these competencies and practices social workers must invest in continued education and development. The coaching role assists the social worker to develop awareness and gain insight providing a link to self in practice that is missing in traditional education or ongoing practice and supervision.

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International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Business Parental Leave in many countries is already seen as an expense to the company, particularly if they are topping up your statutory parental leave subsidy from the government (Brearley, 2021). So, why add to it with maternity coaching? al, 2018). International Journal of Evidence-Based Coaching and Mentoring Special Issue No.6

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International Coach Academy

MARCH 2, 2023

Even the most positive employees can find themselves feeling negative in a career. A big-picture person may hate that and instead enjoy vision or concept development. He developed it while working in the 1940s and 1950s with military personnel transitioning into corporate America. Dr. Haldane was heralded by the U.S.

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