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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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

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, 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

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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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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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. Preparing young researchers for their career Download

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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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Adventures in Career Development

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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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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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

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

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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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Download the article from the Higher Education website. The technocratic and humanistic rationalities dominate, with the emancipatory rationality weakly represented in the data. However, in many cases, the different rationalities are woven together, often for tactical reasons, to create bespoke institutional rationalities.

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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

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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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

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’m sharing them here in case anyone is interested in looking at how all of this stuff is developing. Career guidance and social justice (Norsk) Download Environmentally sustainable guidance (Norsk) Download Wandering through the guidance gardens of the world (English) Download

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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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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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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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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 16, 2025

Purposeful career guidance Download I also gave a workshop in which I focused in on one-to-one guidance (counselling and coaching) approaches. Models for effective personal career guidance Download As every, I hope some of this is useful to people. These are the slides I used to get the conversation flowing.

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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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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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MAY 24, 2023

This is what I had to say… Leading careers in schools Download I also had the opportunity to run a workshop, in which I explored the evaluation of career programmes in schools and colleges.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

This is what I had to say to kick the discussion off… Career guidance policy 2022 Download. This opened up some really interesting questions about why government would be involved in this area at all.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 27, 2023

Careers leader evaluation workshop from Leicester (PowerPoint slides) Download As ever with these workshops I learnt a lot more than I taught and I was very lucky to be co-teaching with some of the LEP staff from Leicester. Here are the slides that I used in case they are any use to anyone.

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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

JULY 6, 2022

Can we deliver social justice (Powerpoint presentation) Download. I then tried to set out some practice ideas for how this could be done, by drawing on the five signposts model. This is the presentation. As ever feel free to borrow and repurpose as it is useful to you.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m going to try and stimulate some thinking by presenting Lorraine Godden and I’s paper on career guidance policy making. This is what I’m planning to say… Theorising career guidance policy making. Watching the sausage get made Download.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Transitions and recruitment in the Midlands Download Finally I’m going to finish off by talking a bit about the Local graduates project as I think that this gives some good insights about ways forward. This is what I’m planning to say.

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Career guidance, social justice and supporting youth transitions Download I recorded a version of my remarks, which is now available on YouTube. My slides are also available if you want them.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Introduction to career theories Download Theories of motivation Download Applying theory to a life story – Lilyhammer Download They are all in my bad Norwegian I’m afraid, but they might be of interest to show you how I tried to work with some of these concepts in the course.

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