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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

School reform

Apprenticeships

Changes in HE

Public sector cuts?

Careers company

National Careers Service

Jobcentre Plus

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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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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 won’t have any need for us any more.

• However, don’t get complacent. We have to make the robots work for us.

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• The idea of career guidance as a public policy intervention is abandoned

The privatisation of career development

• Career development continues to be delivered as a fragmentary, peripheral Band-Aid for a broken system.

Career development on the periphery

• The idea of realising the potential of individuals is placed right at the heart of political discourse.

Career development as the heart of public

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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. Jyväskylä, 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): 117-131

• 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

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t.hooley@derby.ac.uk

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“Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.”

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