Which Road For Career Development

Which road for
career
development?
Presentation to the CfBT annual conference, Newcastle
Tristram Hooley (Professor of Career Education)
The roads well travel
Why care?
The
direction of
travel
A better
vision
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Why care?
The
direction of
travel
A better
vision
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Does it work?
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Learning outcomes
Supports the effective functioning of the education
system.
Helps individuals to navigate complex and sub-optimal
systems.
Supports system reform e.g. the introduction of
apprenticeships.
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Economic outcomes
Career education and
guidance
A wide range of career guidance
interventions
Secondary economic
outcomes
Improved health
Decreased crime
Increased tax revenue
Decreased benefit costs
Individual outcomes
Primary economic outcomes
Human capital
Social capital
Supported transitions
Increased labour market participation

Decreased unemployment
Enhanced skills and knowledge base
Flexible and mobile labour market
Macro-economic benefits
Deficit reduction
Productivity
Living standards
Economic growth
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Social outcomes
Provide access to information and intelligence in ways
that transcend existing social networks.
Demystify labour and learning markets
Engage with individuals assumptions about themselves
Help individuals to operationalise their aspirations
Build skills
Broker access to networks
Provide mentoring and support
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Focus on the
individual
1) Lifelong guidance is most
effective where it is
genuinely lifelong and
progressive.
effective where it connects
meaningfully to the wider
experience and lives of the
individuals who participate
in it.
effective where it
recognises the diversity of
individuals and relates
services to individual needs.
Support learning
and progression
Ensure quality
4) Lifelong guidance is not

8) The skills, training and
one intervention, but many,
dispositions of the
and works most effectively
professionals who deliver
when a range of lifelong guidance are critical
interventions are combined.
to its success.
5) A key aim of lifelong
9) Lifelong guidance is
guidance programmes
dependent on access to
should be the acquisition of
good-quality career
career management skills.
information.
6) Lifelong guidance needs
10) Lifelong guidance
to be holistic and wellshould be quality-assured
integrated into other support and evaluated to ensure its
services. effectiveness and to support
7) Lifelong guidance should continuous improvement.
involve employers and
working people, and provide
active experiences of
workplaces.
10 evidence-based principles for the

design of lifelong guidance services
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Summarising the evidence base: focus

on the individual
should connects
meaningfully to
individuals wider
experience and
lives.
needs to recognise
the diversity of
individuals.
should be lifelong
and progressive.
Focus on
the
individual
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Summarising the evidence base:

support learning and progression
should support
individuals to
acquire career
management skills.
is not one
intervention, but
many which work
when combined.
6) Lifelong gudance
needs to be holistic
and well-integrated
into other support.
Support
learning
and
progression
should involve
employers and
working people, and
provide active
experiences of
workplaces.
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Summarising the evidence base:

ensuring quality
8) The skills,
training and
dispositions of the
professionals are
critical.
9) You need goodquality career

information for
effective lifelong
guidance.
10) Lifelong
guidance should
be quality-assured
and evaluated.
Ensure
quality
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Why care?
The
direction of
travel
A better
vision
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Recent history
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The current infrastructure
School based provision

Statutory guidance
Local authority provision of targeted services
National Careers Service Inspiration agenda
Career 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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What is going to be important 20152020?
Cuts to local authorities

Cuts to school budgets
How the role of the LEPs develops
How the Careers and Enterprise Company develops
How the NCS is maintained and how it is expected to
relate to the other players
Reforms within DWP
Broader changes to FE, HE and Apprenticeships
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What can we do about this?

Do your job and do it well. Route your work in evidence.
Keep up to date with what is happening in policy,
research and practice.
Raise the profile of careers work with politicians and the
general public.
Get political. They govern in your name.
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Why care?
The
direction of
travel
A better
vision
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Lifelong guidance policy cycle

Understanding
what is known
Monitoring
implementation
and checking
efficacy
Developing new
policies and
services
Implementing new
policies and
services
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A lifelong guidance strategy

Career development at the heart of the education system.
Career development at the centre of employment
practice.
A lifelong entitlement to career support.
Policy and funding co-ordinated across departments.
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Do we need to be more radical?
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More information
Hooley, T. (2014). The Evidence Base on Lifelong
Guidance. Jyvskyl, Finland: European Lifelong
Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN).
Hooley T. & Dodd, V. (2015). The Economic Benefits of
Career Guidance. Careers England.
Hooley, T., Matheson, J. & Watts, A.G. (2014). Advancing
Ambitions: The role of Career Guidance in Supporting
Social Mobility. London: Sutton Trust.
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Tristram Hooley
Professor of Career Education
International Centre for Guidance Studies
University of Derby
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t.hooley@derby.ac.uk
@pigironjoe
Blog at
http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com
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In conclusion
Career development can benefit the economy, the
education system and contribute to social justice.
The evidence base gives us a clear steer about how best
to organise and deliver careers services.
Recent policy has not listened to this enough and
although things can only get better there may still be
trouble ahead.
We could do so much better but we all have a
responsibility to bring this change about.
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Which road for

The roads well travel

The roads well travel

Primary economic outcomes

Increased labour market participation

4) Lifelong guidance is not

10 evidence-based principles for the

Summarising the evidence base: focus

Summarising the evidence base:

Summarising the evidence base:

9) You need goodquality career

The roads well travel

The current infrastructure

School based provision

What is going to be important 20152020?

Cuts to local authorities

What can we do about this?

The roads well travel

Lifelong guidance policy cycle

A lifelong guidance strategy

Do we need to be more radical?

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