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

3. 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)

4. Does it work?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. Recent history

9. 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

10. 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?

11. Things can only get better

12. Careers & Enterprise Company

13. Mentoring

14. A school-based system

15. 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

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

17. 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?

19. Inequality

20. 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?

21. 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?

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

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

25. 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.

26. Tristram Hooley Professor of Career Education
International Centre for Guidance Studies
University of Derby
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