1. CDI Scottish Student Conference Wednesday 23rd November Virginia Isaac Chief Executive Inspiring Futures President CDI

2. Supporting young people

3. Six themes Young people need more support than ever
What is education for in today’s world?
Careers education, advice and guidance is not just about jobs!
Why is self understanding, career management skills and career confidence so important?
How can we achieve it?
How do we know if we have done a good job?
Q: What do we mean by quality?
Depth or breadth?
Makes a difference to a young person
Helps them understand themselves better
Helps them face the future
Equips them with skills
Helps them keep their options open
Puts them on the right track
Quantitative and qualitative measures Or
Unhelpful at best and ‘rubbish’ at worst
Most cannot remember having careers advice
Artificially narrows down options/aspirations
Does not conform with parents’
wishes/expectations
Generally impossible to predict a career –
no longer relevant to modern life with
multiple careers.
Why waste money on guidance?

7. Is this all we need?

9. Tristram Hooley: IAEVG Conference November 2016
Career guidance sits at the intersection between the individual and society, between supply and demand and between change and continuity. We seek to help individual’s to manage these changes and to help societies to work effectively together. Career guidance is, as Tony Watts often used to observe, both an individual and a social good.
 Ultimately this has got to be about helping people to find both personal and collective agency to change their lives and careers for the better.

10. Career Education Standard
Recognises the journeys children and young people make as they learn about the world of work from the early years to the senior phase.
Sets out what children and young people will learn and what parents/carers, teachers and practitioners, employers and Skills Development Scotland will do to support their learning.
Implementation of the standard improves the quality and consistency of learning about work and careers.

11. Framework for Careers, Employability and Enterprise Education
3 main areas
Developing yourself through careers, employability and enterprise education
Learning about careers and the world of work
Developing your career management, employability and enterprise skills
17 learning outcomes for learners aged 7 to 19
Supporting resources

12. Six career themes

13. KEY EMPLOYABILITY BEHAVIOURS
Empathetic
Collaborative
Enquiring
Concerned for Society
Confident
Risk Taking
Honesty, Trustworthiness
Adaptability, Agile
Accountability
Loyal, committed, hardworking
Creative and enterprising
Perseverance, Resilience
* Professor Deborah Eyre: ‘High Performance Learning’

14. KEY EMPLOYABILITY ATTRIBUTES
Self regulation
Strategy Planning , Big picture thinking, Generalisation, Abstraction
Intellectual confidence, career confidence
Linking (Connection Finding)
Imagination, creating, intellectual playfulness, originality
Flexible thinking, Fluent thinking, Seeing alternative perspectives
Analysing, critical or logical thinking
Precision, Speed and accuracy
Complex and multi-step problem solving
Evolutionary and revolutionary thinking
Commercial Awareness
* Professor Deborah Eyre: ‘High Performance Learning’

15. Values
Values
Research suggests “values” are examined with “career development” more consistently in the US (r=0.9) than the UK (r=0.3). Perhaps attitudes such as curiosity, initiative, ingenuity and drive for results emerge when people do what they care about (and is consistent with their values, and feels worthwhile), and eclipse skills as determinants of early career performance. I’m reminded of Mark Murphy’s new hire research: 46% failed within 18 months, 89% of failures were due to mismatched attitude rather than technical skill.

16. Educating for the Future
Academic AND Vocational
Importance of skills
Embedding in curriculum – role of the subject teacher
Extra curricular/co-curricular
Productivity and values based occupational choice
No one size fits all – importance of tailored guidance