Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

NICEC is holding a seminar on the 29th November entitled The Future of Undergraduate Careers Education. The event will see Melanie Buford and Michael Stebleton , two of the editors of the recently released book Mapping the Future of Undergraduate Career Education (Routledge), discussing the origins and key points of the book.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 19, 2022

If you haven’t seen the Insights series it well worth a look as it boils down cutting edge research into short 2-4 page summaries for teachers and careers professional. Delivering career education in the post-pandemic world. There are lots of papers already published.

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Adventures in Career Development

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. So that is what I tried to say.

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Adventures in Career Development

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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Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

I've spent over a decade now in the professional world, and let me tell you—there's nothing quite like the moment when you, or someone on your team, realizes they've reached a meaningful career milestone. Because when we get this right, we're not just building careers—we're building futures.

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the challenges women face in career development, particularly regarding self-confidence. In my over 20 years of career, I’ve observed my female peers sometimes even myself, struggle with self-confidence, which significantly impacts our ability to advance in our careers.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Pete is a fellow of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC) and President Elect of the Career Development Institute (CDI). The lecture is entitled Career Development as Freedom. The key role of autonomy and freedom in ethical practice will be highlighted.

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Adventures in Career Development

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Yesterday I appeared in front of the Education Select Committee to discuss career guidance policy in England. Do we need the Careers and Enterprise Company and so on. Also on the panel were Dr Rebecca Montacute (The Sutton Trust), Alice Barnard (Edge Foundation) and Chris Percy (Researcher). Is Gatsby really useful?

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 11, 2024

But it is worth calling attention to the work of the Career Development Policy Group. This group is a coalition of careers sector organisations and stakeholders who campaign to influence policy. The main proposal that the group has made is called the Career Guidance Guarantee. I hope that you find it useful.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Chris Percy and I have just published a new article which looks at the idea of ‘return on investment (ROI)’ and seeks to explore what the state of the art is with respect to career guidance and a range of related fields. School based career guidance. investmet Career guidance for adults = 0.9x-109.6x

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International Coach Academy

MARCH 2, 2023

A Research Paper By Sharee S Wells, Career Obstacles Coach, UNITED STATES A Toolkit for Ensuring Positive Career Choices As Henry Thoreau said, The mass of men lives of quiet desperation… The phrase is often used to speak of not following one’s passion. A few find their bliss and turn that into their new career. Others flounder.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 12, 2022

The International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy (ICCDPP) is a non-profit body committed to improving policies, strategies, and systems to strengthen career service provision around the world. ICCDPP promotes exchange, collaboration, and action through international symposia and targeted policy initiatives.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This issue includes: I’m old enough and I’m young enough: Semi-retirement and career – Cordelia Wise. Is careers work white? A collaborative research project with minority ethnic students of career development practice – Gill Frigerio, Lassie Chen, Marni McArthur, Nishi Mehta. How can we do this?

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels.com Thank you to David Andrews (Visiting Fellow at iCeGS) and co-author of The Careers Leader Handbook for this guest post. David Andrews For many years it has been argued that every teacher is a teacher of careers.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

We heard some very encouraging things from the Department for Education (although there is still some considerable way to go with this). Although careers work has been pretty beleaguered for the last decade, there was a sense that the new government might offer better things. I felt that there was a very positive atmosphere.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 10, 2022

NICEC is committed to serious thinking and innovation in career development work. Founded in 1975, NICEC is a learned society for reflective practitioners in career education, career guidance/counselling, and career development. Membership is open to all.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 6, 2022

It was a great privilege to be asked by Tom Richmond to talk about career education on the EDSK podcast, Inside your ED. It was really great to be able to go into a bit of depth about the history of recent careers policy and to consider what we could learn from it.

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Adventures in Career Development

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 Last week, Rie Thomsen and I gave a webinar to practitioners in Australia via MyFuture.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 21, 2022

With a new Prime Minister and King, a controversial mini-budget, a plummeting pound and the hoopla of party conferences, even the most dedicated follower of politics might be forgiven for missing the start of the House of Commons Education Select Committees inquiry into Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG).

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Suzanne Rice and I have just published a new new paper entitled How can and should secondary school teachers be involved inbuilding students career knowledge and skills? Synthesis: The role of the secondary school teacher in career development All secondary schools should take a whole school approach to careers.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 7, 2023

The Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills have just published a series of new reports looking at career guidance in Norwegian schools. This provides a powerful evidence base for the development of the countries career guidance system. New ambitions for career guidance in schools (Holm-Nordhagen et al.)

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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

MAY 12, 2022

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the journal, it is an open access, multi-disciplinary journal dedicated to careers theory, practice and research. . – Career theory, policy, research, and practice. This means that you can now access an archive of 48 issues of careers research. Enjoy diving in!

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Last week I posted an article on FE News in which I made some polite suggestions for what the forthcoming education select committee inquiry should say about career guidance. This is what I had to say… The Education Select Committee has recently launched a new inquiry into career education, information, advice and guidance.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I’ve just published a new paper with Dawn Bennett and Lizzie Knight called Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries. The article is available in open access in the journal Higher Education. Download the article from the Higher Education website.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Yestersday, I had the opportunity to present to the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) in Wellington, New Zealand. The TEC is a Crown Agency which leads the Government’s relationship with the tertiary education sector in New Zealand and provides career services from education to employment.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 24, 2024

In the light of the Labour Party’s promise to align Jobcentre Plus and the National Careers Service in England, Professor Pete Robertson offers some useful reflections on the opportunities , and pitfalls, that such a move might offer. They were deeply integrated into educational institutions. How did they become so different?

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Forbes Careers

APRIL 9, 2023

Even if you are still committed to traditional schooling for you (or your kids), these 5 alternative education options can still be part of your career development

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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. There is also a promise to devolve more power to localities which is likely to be important to the way in which careers is delivered, but again is somewhat light on details.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 2, 2024

But what do they have to say about careers related topics. Careers Careers are discussed in terms of the reform to the social care system with a promise to sort out the weak progression structures in that sector through forms of social partnership. But, no specific mention of careers education or guidance.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Professor Jaana Kettunen (Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER) of the University of Jyväskylä). The digitalization of career services and the use of digital tools by career practitioners have come under the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic.? information and communication technology in career guidance.?Dr.

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Adventures in Career Development

AUGUST 31, 2022

Career Guidance for the 21st Century is a flexible, self-paced and freely accessible e-learning course for career guidance practitioners across Europe. It is completely free to use and available now for all careers professionals across Europe and beyond. Career guidance for the 21st century. Career education.

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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. We currently spend £68 per person, per year on the delivery of career guidance to young people.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 18, 2024

Photo by fauxels on Pexels.com On the 4 th October 2023 Suzanne Rice and I convened an expert round table to discuss the role of secondary teachers in building students career skills and knowledge. About the research Suzanne and I have been conducting a Delphi study to explore secondary teacher’s roles in careers education.

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She Owns Success

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Due to the high levels of expertise, care, and responsibility, advancing a healthcare career isnt like most other jobs. Figure Out Your Career Path There is a place where you start and a place where you want to be. This is true for most careers. You can also make much more of your career by taking on a specialist role.

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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. It conducts thematic investigations into educational issues and reports back on the state of the nation.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 8, 2023

In late 2022 and early 2023 I undertook a small research project on behalf of the Norwegian Directorate for Skills and Higher Education. In it we were investigating European practice in the career development of researchers. Preparing young researchers for their career Download

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