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Career Development – The Policy Conversation Professor Tristram Hooley

Career Development – The Policy Conversation Professor Tristram Hooley. Overview. Overview. A career. The individual’s passage through life, learning and work. Career is democratic not hierarchical. OECD definition.

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Career Development – The Policy Conversation Professor Tristram Hooley

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  1. Career Development – The Policy ConversationProfessor Tristram Hooley

  2. Overview

  3. Overview

  4. A career The individual’s passage through life, learning and work. Career is democratic not hierarchical.

  5. OECD definition Career guidance refers to services and activities intended to assist individuals, of any age and at any point throughout their lives, to make educational, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers… The activities may take place on an individual or group basis, and may be face-to-face or at a distance (including help lines and web-based services). (OECD, 2004)

  6. Where does career development take place? • Schools • Colleges/VET • Universities • Public employment service and careers services • Employment • Trade unions and professional associations • Private sector (individual’s buying career support)

  7. Across the world • Career education and development exists all over the world. • Detailed reviews have been conducted in 55 countries. • There is lots to learn from this experience.

  8. Important differences Different labour markets Different education systems Different cultures

  9. Overview

  10. Key policy challenges • Lifelong learning • Mobility • Participation in vocational and higher education. • Reducing early school-leaving. • Skills utilisation • Social equity • Social inclusion • Unemployment • Youth transitions • Active ageing. • Active labour markets. • Economic development • Efficient investment in education and training • Employee engagement • Labour market efficiency • Labour market flexibility/flexicurity.

  11. Rationale for career development It benefits both the individual and society. It supports a range of policy goals • Learning and education • Employment and the economy • Social mobility and social equity. It benefits a range of stakeholders including individuals, employers, public employment services, schools and other education providers.

  12. Relating to different policy interests Career development is a soft policy instrument that is designed to maximise the efficiency of market systems. Career development can appeal to both right and left. It is flexible and can include different elements being emphasised e.g. addressing social exclusion, supporting the smooth functioning of the market.

  13. Overview

  14. Summarising the evidence base: focus on the individual

  15. Summarising the evidence base: support learning and progression

  16. Summarising the evidence base: ensuring quality

  17. 10 evidence-based principles for the design of lifelong guidance services

  18. Overview

  19. Effective career development policy

  20. Policy instruments • National career development strategy • Co-ordination and planning • National service provision • Regulation and perscription • Career management skills framework • Quality assurance (professional and service standards) • Stimulating citizen demand (marketing and campaigns)

  21. Building a career development culture • Training and education • Continuing professional development • A community of practice • Conferences • Online discussions • A professional association?

  22. Overview

  23. Issues for New Zealand • What is the level of policy interest in this field? • How can it be increased? • Relationship between career development in education and work/public and private sector? • Role of the profession? • Role of Careers New Zealand? • Strategies, documents and frameworks? • Where next?

  24. Useful references European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (2012). Lifelong Guidance Policy Development: A European Resource Kit. Jyväskylä, Finland: ELGPN. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2004a). Career Guidance and Public Policy: Bridging the Gap. Paris: OECD. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2004b). Career Guidance: A Handbook for Policy Makers. Paris: OECD. Watts, A.G. (2005). Career guidance policy: An international review. Career Development Quarterly, 54(1): 66-76. Watts, A.G. (2009). The Relationship of Career Guidance to VET. Paris: OECD. Watts, A.G. (2010). National all-age career guidance services: Evidence and Issues. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 38(1): 31-44. Sultana, R. (2009). Career Guidance Policies: Global Dynamics, Local Resonances. iCeGS Occasional Paper. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies. Watts, A.G., Bezanson, L., & McCarthy, J. (2014). The international symposia on career development and public policy: retrospect and prospect. Australian Journal of Career Development. Online First.

  25. Some of my research • Hooley, T. (2012). How the internet changed career: framing the relationship between career development and online technologies. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC), 29: 3-12. • Hooley, T. (2013). Career Development in Canada. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby. • Hooley, T. (2014). The Evidence Base on Lifelong Guidance.Jyväskylä, Finland: European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN). • Hooley, T., Watts, A.G., Andrews, D. (2015). Teachers and Careers: The Role Of School Teachers in Delivering Career and Employability Learning. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby. • Hooley, T., Watts, A. G., Sultana, R. G. and Neary, S. (2013). The 'blueprint' framework for career management skills: a critical exploration. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 41(2): 117-131. • Neary, S., Marriott, J. and Hooley, T. (2014). Understanding a 'career in careers': learning from an analysis of current job and person specifications. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies. University of Derby. • Taylor, A.R. &  Hooley, T. (2014). Evaluating the impact of career management skills module and internship programme within a university business school.British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 42(5): 487-499. 

  26. www.derby.ac.uk/icegs Professor of Career Education International Centre for Guidance Studies University of Derby http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs t.hooley@derby.ac.uk @pigironjoe Blog at http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com Tristram Hooley

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