The Future of Career Education

and Guidance in the UK

Tristram Hooley

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I've seen the future,

brother: it is murder
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So where are we?

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No, where are we with careers?

Careers
system

Wider
policy
Public sector
cuts?

Jobcentre Plus
National
Careers Service
Careers
company

Changes in HE
Apprenticeship
s
School reform

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Key career development challenges for

government

Making the careers company a reality.

Co-ordinating between different departments.
Developing the National Careers Service.
Dealing with the potential fall out of cuts to school
budgets and wider public spending.
The need for a public career development initiative.

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Lessons from evidence

Career development should focus on the individual as
they move across the life course.
Career development should support learning and
progression.
There is a need to ensure quality and evaluate the
efficacy of career development.

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Technolog
y

The
futur
e
The
profession

Policy

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Technolog
y

The
futur
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The
profession

Policy

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What can we expect from new

technologies
Ever greater amounts of information which is ever easier
to relate to our individual situations.
Ever more sophisticated forms of automation that can
take over routine career support tasks and open up new
kinds of support.
Ever more diverse ways of communicating with other
human beings allowing us to increase the reach of career
support and make it cheaper and more efficient.

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Will the robots take over?

Career is the point at which the
individual intersects with the
world. It is endlessly complex
and endlessly chaotic.
Once robots can give better
careers advice than people they
wont have any need for us any
more.
However, dont get complacent.
We have to make the robots
work for us.
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Technolog
y

The
futur
e
The
profession

Policy

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3 possibilities
The privatisation of
career development

The idea of career guidance as a

public policy intervention is
abandoned

Career development
on the periphery

Career development continues to be

delivered as a fragmentary, peripheral
Band-Aid for a broken system.

Career development The idea of realising the potential of

individuals is placed right at the heart
as the heart of public
of political discourse.
policy
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y

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futur
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profession

Policy

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What needs to evolve?

Acknowledging the centrality of inter-professional working
and inter-professional career paths.
Getting serious about evidence and evaluation.
Recognising that career development is about learning
and not about matching.
Embracing new technologies.
Getting political for both self-interested (professional)
reasons and a broader commitment to social justice.

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Recent publications

Hooley, T. (2014). The Evidence Base on Lifelong Guidance. Jyvskyl, Finland: European
Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN).
Hooley, T. (2015). Careering towards a wall? Career guidance policy and election 2015. Graduate
Market Trends, Spring 2015.
Hooley, T. (2015). Career Guidance and Inspiration in Schools (Policy Commentary 30). Careers
England.
Hooley, T., Matheson, J. & Watts, A.G. (2014). Advancing Ambitions: The role of career guidance
in supporting social mobility. London: Sutton Trust.
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): 117131
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.
Longridge, D., Hooley, T. & Staunton, T. (2013). Building Online Employability: A Guide for
Academic Departments. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby.

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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
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Our future will be shaped

by the assumptions we
make about who we are and
what we can be.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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