Teachers, careers advisers and

employers
Who should do what and why?

Tristram Hooley, Presentation to

Careers Live (Leeds) 10th March 2015

What Im going to cover

The big picture

Career professionals
Teachers
Employers
Working together?

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What Im going to cover

The big picture

Career professionals
Teachers
Employers
Working together?

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What is career development?

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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)

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What does it look like in schools?

information provision
career assessments and tests
career counselling
careers advice delivered by a non-careers professional
curricular interventions
further study/work-related learning
other extra-curricular interventions
frameworks for reflection

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Different approaches
Activity approach
Service approach
Curriculum/learning approach

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Career development matters to

the education system
the labour market and economy
society and those concerned with fairness and social equity

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Benefits for schools

Attainment
Attendance
Transition
Life and career success

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Recent career guidance policy

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The mistakes in brief

Connexions
Closing Connexions (and Aimhigher and Education
Business Partnerships).
Removing the statutory duties for careers education and
work-related learning.
Two woolly versions of the Statutory Guidance.
cutting out the middle man
Believing that inspiration is everything

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The new careers company

Nicky Morgan: Mr
Speaker, I am pleased to be
able to tell the House that
Christine Hodgson, Chair of
Capgemini UK and
someone with a strong track
record of developing young
talent, will chair a new
careers and enterprise
company for schools.
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What Im going to cover

The big picture

Career professionals
Teachers
Employers
Working together?

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Skills of career professionals

Career development theory

Labour market knowledge
Brokerage
Referral
Counselling skills
Career learning pedagogy
Advocacy
Leadership, co-ordination and collaboration
Service design and evaluation

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What Im going to cover

The big picture

Career professionals
Teachers
Employers
Working together?

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Teachers roles

Career informant

Tutorial roles

Pastoral support

Teaching roles

Within-subject

Teaching careers

Leadership roles

Careers leader

Senior leader
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What Im going to cover

The big picture

Career professionals
Teachers
Employers
Working together?

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Employers
Information, inspiration and advice
Providing opportunities to experience and learn about
work and gain career-related skills
Contributing to careers education activities within schools
such as CV writing workshops, mock interviews and
enterprise programmes.
Providing young people with contacts within the world of
work that may be useful in their career development
(social capital).

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But
This is not core business for them. They have
organisations/businesses to run and jobs to do.
Their knowledge of the world is rich, but is confined
predominantly to their own area of work and industry
sector, and thus has an inherent partiality.
Employers have limited knowledge of the complex
educational choices facing young people.
Employers are unlikely to have in-depth conversations
with individual students about the students own strengths
and interests.

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What Im going to cover

The big picture

Career professionals
Teachers
Employers
Working together?

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Operationalising a career development

programme
Professional infrastructure
for careers workers
Involvement of
employers and
post-secondary
learning providers
in the education
system

Quality and
evaluation

Activities and resources

Advice and guidance
Curriculum

Local brokerage
and partnership
organisations

Careers leader
Senior leader
School
vision

High quality LMI

and resources
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What else Ive said about this

Careers Sector Stakeholder Alliance (2014). Securing Our Future Talent: The
Roles of Employers and Career Professionals in Providing Career Support to
Young People in Schools and Colleges.
Hooley, T. (2014). The Evidence Base on Lifelong Guidance. Jyvskyl,
Finland: European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN).
Hooley, T., Marriott, J. & Sampson, J.P. (2011).
Fostering College and Career Readiness. Derby: International Centre for
Guidance Studies, University of Derby.
Hooley, T., Marriott, J., Watts, A.G. and Coiffait, L. (2012).
Careers 2020: Options for Future Careers Work in English Schools. London:
Pearson.
Hooley, T., Matheson, J. & Watts, A.G. (2014).
Advancing ambitions: the role of career guidance in supporting social mobility
. London: The Sutton Trust.
Hooley, T., Watts, A.G., Andrews, D. (2015). Teachers and Careers. Derby:
International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby.
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In conclusion
Career professionals, teachers and employers all play a
critical role in career development.
We need all three.
We also need structure and leadership to draw the pieces
together.

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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
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