1. Break-Out or Break-Up?
Val Butcher

2. Context
Careers Service roles have always rightly differed in different institutions, but key institutional influences in last 25 years have accelerated this:
Enterprise in Higher Education
Personal Development Planning
Employability
Employer Engagement including Work experience

3. July 2006:Career Development Learning and Employability
July 2006:Career Development Learning and Employability. Institutional strategies, skilled academics... and how this impacted on careers service roles
April 2007: Meeting at HECSU London:“The meeting was called to discuss ways of taking forward themes and issues raised in Tony Watt's recent publication (for the HEA) entitled Career Development Learning and Employability. The focus was to explore ways of using research to support institutions to frame policies and practice in relation to employability and in particular how careers advisory services might be involved in this process.”

4. Research possibilities
Research could be aimed at articulating models of employability/career development learning within the curriculum
 Research could be qualitative - that is, draw upon case studies of institutions or departments (or both)
Research could be framed around the role of careers advisory services in stimulating/leading employability/career development learning.
There is a need to clarify concepts - particularly the similarities and differences in terms employability and career development learning which are often used interchangeably.
 Research could be aimed at senior policy makers in institutions - overtly providing steer for those involved in strategic planning/policy making.

5. Research possibilities
The role of careers advisory services in supporting employability
Models of career development learning within the curriculum
Careers services' role in assisting the strategic direction of employability in institutions

6. PROP Proposal
a very small piece of work to explore the role of higher education careers services in supporting institutional strategies for employability and enterprise, and implications for the structure of careers services. In particular, to identify models of development which will indicate challenges to careers services in other institutions and hence be an inspiration to fresh, bold and innovative initiatives.
The methodology outlined visits to three institutions with contrasting models of development, each to include interviews with key careers service staff and with relevant senior policy-makers in the institution; use of comparable information from a fourth institution in which similar work has already been done.

7. PROP Proposal
“The study will draw upon previous work on strategic directions for careers services in higher education, but will add up-to-date evidence from recent strategic developments within the four case-study institutions, It will ask:
(1) What are the contributions that higher education careers services are making to institutional strategies for employability and enterprise? (2) How do institutional managements perceive the strategic role of careers services within their institutions? (3) What are the implications of these developments and perceptions for the future structure and role of careers services?”

8. Break-Out or Break-Up?
Tony Watts

9. Traditional Core Individual and group guidance Information
Employer liaison and placement

10. Additional Activities - 1
Pre-entry guidance
Course-related placements
Placements into part-time and vacation jobs
Teaching career-planning courses
Supporting teaching departments in career development learning and PDP

11. Additional Activities - 2
Making core activities available to:
- Former students
- Staff (including research-contract staff)
- Local recent graduates from other institutions
- Other adults
Broader brokerage role on employer engagement

12. Strategic Directions - 1
Integrated guidance model
Integrated placement model
Curriculum model
Learning organisation model

13. Strategic Directions - 2
Extended support model
Lifelong guidance model
Alumni model

14. Employability and Career Development Learning
Immediate employment
Immediate employability
Sustainable employability
Career development skills
- Sub-set of employability skills
- Related set of meta-skills

15. Career Development Learning
Self Awareness (Self)
Opportunity Awareness (Opportunity)
Decision Learning (Aspirations)
Transition Learning (Results)

16. CDL: Models of Delivery
Specialist
Consultancy
Parallel delivery
Integrated

17. Employability Strategies
LJMU: focus on curriculum (World of Work)
UCLan: Futures; Centre for Employability, Careers and Enterprise; hub and spokes
Birmingham: Careers and Employability Centre
Lancaster: Centre for Employability, Enterprise and Careers

18. Common Elements Enterprise Employer engagement PDP
Additional student award

19. Implications for Careers Services
Pre-1992 universities (Birmingham, Lancaster): extending remit and size of careers service
Post-1992 universities:
- LJMU: careers team integrated into new Graduate Development Centre
- UCLan: careers team within new Centre

20. Issues ‘Can the centre hold?’ Where it doesn’t, what happens to:
- one-to-one career guidance?
- career resource centres?
Where it does, should extended careers services be viewed as teaching departments?
Implications of teaching/consultancy roles for staffing and CPD?