Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Yesterday I keynoted the Career Development Association of New Zealand conference in Auckland. I was asked to talk about the idea of investment in career development services. All of these reasons make it important for us to invest in career development. investing in the future Download

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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Although careers work has been pretty beleaguered for the last decade, there was a sense that the new government might offer better things. 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

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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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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, 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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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MARCH 1, 2025

I talked about career as our pathway into the future and argued that we need to think about the future critically and positively as we plot our own careers into it. Next I asked them about how important they felt it was to have decided on a career by the time they left university.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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JULY 6, 2022

I was recently very privileged to be invited to Ipswich to talk to careers professional in Suffolk about career guidance and social justice. In my keynote I explored what we mean by career and social justice and argued that career guidance could play an important role in the quest for social justice.

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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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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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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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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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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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