THE FUTURE OF CAREERS WORK Into the great wide open Tristram Hooley, Professor of Career Education, University of Derby

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)

Does it work?

What I’m going to cover Where have we been? Where are we going? Where should we be going? What does the modern career professional look like?

What I’m going to cover Where have we been? Where are we going? Where should we be going? What does the modern career professional look like?

Recent history

The current infrastructure School based provision Statutory guidance Local authority provision of targeted services National Careers Service – Inspiration agenda Careers and Enterprise Company Jobcentre Plus in schools Education information and transition support e.g. UCAS & NAS Other local and national initiatives e.g. LEPs, Plotr, various charities, Career Lab, Future Morph

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Things can only get better

Careers & Enterprise Company

Mentoring

A school-based system

Good career guidance (Gatsby) A stable careers programme Learning from career and labour market information Addressing the needs of each pupil Linking curriculum learning to careers Encounters with employers and employees Experienced of workplaces Encounters with further and higher education Personal guidance

Themes in the current approach Employer engagement Technology Marketisation School autonomy Devolution and the LEPs

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Inequality

Five career education questions Who am I? How does the world work? Where do I fit into the world? How can I live with others in the world? How do I go about changing the world?

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Different roles Career development professionals Career informants Congruent professionals Para-professionals

NICE framework Professionalism Career assessment and information Career education Social system intervention Management and leadership Career counselling

References Gatsby Charitable Foundation (2014). Good Career Guidance. London: Gatsby. Hooley, T. (2015). Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery: Self-Actualisation, Social Justice and the Politics of Career Guidance. 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. and Dodd, V. (2015). The Economic Benefits of Career Guidance. Careers England.

Tristram Hooley 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