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. But nonetheless this is welcome focus on the area. £85

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 13, 2022

So far there has (perhaps unsurprisingly) been little discussion of career guidance in the speeches and debates of candidates. But just in case serious policy discussion doesn’t break out soon, I thought that I might make a quick summary of what we know about the different candidates opinions on career guidance and related areas.

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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. A cultural gulf The cultural gulf between career services and Job Centres is considerable.

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Adventures in Career Development

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 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

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

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

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. Why careers matter.

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Adventures in Career Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Photo by George Dolgikh on Pexels.com For those of you who follow these things closely you may have spotted that we have recently seen a select committee report on career guidance followed by the government’s response. The select committee Select committee’s are designed to scrutinise government policy.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For the last few years, the Construction Industry Training Board has been undertaking research with careers practitioners to find out how they are engaging with the construction section. In this blog we set out some of the main findings from last year and explore what the implications might be for careers practice.

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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

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

JUNE 15, 2024

I’m working my way through all the manifestos for parties in the current election to see what they have to offer for careers. 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).

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Adventures in Career Development

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. Let’s hope that the government can deliver on their promise. I felt that there was a very positive atmosphere. Some of us were daring to hope for the better.

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Adventures in Career Development

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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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

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

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. This review therefore promises to give us one of the clearest descriptions of what careers work is like in England’s schools.

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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

JULY 2, 2024

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. But, no specific mention of careers education or guidance. Britain Elects currently has them on 6% of the vote and likely to get 4 MPs.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. The TEC invests over $3 billion into tertiary education and supporting the tertiary and careers system every year.

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International Coach Academy

AUGUST 2, 2023

They came into the first session with a lot of notes about their work and wanted to explore what’s next for themselves in their career. About the Client Client M is a Global Program Manager for Data Governance at Uber, a position he has held since January 2022.

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Forbes Careers

MAY 17, 2022

Many of the most admired companies, including Google and Apple, have benefited directly from government-funded research.

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On The Job

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

And what I see makes me realize that when we have gotten past this difficult time, we will not only have learned economic lessons that will govern the rest of lives, but career ones as well. We need to learn those financial lessons -- and those career ones as well.

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GetSmarter

APRIL 17, 2025

If you want to inspire, motivate, and guide the next generation into the future, teaching can be an incredibly rewarding career. But its also a career facing a crisis; qualified and dedicated educators are in short supply. For instance, the Western Cape Government has an e-recruitment portal for applicants. Like in the B.Ed.,

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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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The Coaching Tools Company

MAY 28, 2024

Originally Posted on The Coaching Tools Company as 8 Career Coaching Tools and Ideas For Clients Who Have Absolutely No Idea What They Want! Do you have a client who wants a new career but has absolutely no idea where to start? IMPORTANT: There are no career coaching tools that give us a magic wand! We start by looking within.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 5, 2020

So while they’re in prison, the government pays money to the mom and kids. But when the dad gets out of prison they can’t see their kids until they pay back what they owe to the government for covering for them. The post Quarantine with my ex changes my opinion about good careers appeared first on Penelope Trunk Careers.

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Forbes Careers

JULY 26, 2022

The Governance Playbook includes regulatory, financial and board governance - different, but essential.

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It could already start as career coaching executives before considering and taking on a non-executive director (NED) role. My hypotheses are: Boards are changing in their role and the value they bring to stakeholders of the organizations they lead, from less governance to more strategic focus. Governance and 2. 32, 2021).

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International Coach Academy

JANUARY 7, 2024

Leaders are also putting more pressure on their managers to spend more time coaching and developing their direct reports, while managers are also feeling pressure from their employees who have higher expectations for real-time, personalized feedback, especially those who are early in their careers or who were onboarded remotely.

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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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International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In Martin Seligman’s early work on Positive Psychology, as discussed in his book “Learned Optimism,” his studies showed that subjects who were prone to lower scores in optimism assessment, less success, and more problems in health, relationships, and career, had a set of values and perspectives that were “personal, pervasive, and permanent.”

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Forbes Careers

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here are nine top pieces advice from some of the dozens of women leaders I’ve interviewed in 2022 on Electric Ladies Podcast and for my Forbes articles. From developing goals, to what to learn, to how to seize opportunities in the new marketplace.

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 22, 2023

10 In October I had the opportunity to go to New Zealand and talk about career guidance at the CDANZ conference. As part of this I was asked to run a workshop entitled Building good career guidance in schools. 7 During the pandemic I made a bunch of videos explaining different aspects of career theory.

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Adventures in Career Development

AUGUST 30, 2022

The site is the main source of news and views on career guidance in Norway. 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. With a Ph.d. And where am I going in life?

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On The Job

JANUARY 22, 2008

Procurement, IT and accounting positions are also on the "most wanted" job list, and that's just one example of why private and government groups are banding together to try and recruit baby boomers for these jobs. Does delayering make you look thinner?

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International Coaching Federation

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

OQ faced an additional challenge as a significant government shareholder announced its decentralization plans for 2022. The In addition to achieving impressive metrics, OQ was chosen as an exemplar and invited to assist in fostering a coaching culture within government sectors as part of the nation’s 2040 vision.

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