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Working with career management skills
Tristram Hooley, Presentation in Bod, Norway, August 2014
Overview
What are career management skills?
Example frameworks
Using them in practice
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Overview
What are career management skills
Example frameworks
Using them in practice
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www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

What fisherman are you?
Saving people
Career crisis support

Stopping them falling in?
Pre-emptive career
support

Teaching them to swim?
Career management
learning
What CMS frameworks seek to achieve
Create a strong articulation of the value of lifelong
guidance that the general public can understand.
Create a common language for a fragmented lifelong
guidance sector.
Create a framework that can underpin and enhance the
activity of lifelong guidance professionals and support
collaborative working with other groups.

So what skills do you need to manage your
career?
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Core elements


Career development activities
Curriculum
Advice and guidance
Work related learning
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Overview
What are career management skills
Example frameworks
Using them in practice
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www.derby.ac.uk/icegs
CMS Frameworks
National Career Development Guideline (US)
http://associationdatabase.com/aws/NCDA/asset_manager/
get_file/3384/ncdguidelines2007.pdf
Blueprint for Life/Work Design (Canada)
http://www.blueprint4life.ca/blueprint/home.cfm/lang/1
Blueprint for Career Development (Australia)
http://blueprint.edu.au/
Career Management Skills Framework (Scotland)
http://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/our-story/key-
publications/career-management-skills-framework.aspx
Blueprint for Careers (England)
http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/node/1332
Canadian Blueprint Competencies
1. Build and maintain a positive self-image
2. Interact positively and effectively with others
3. Change and grow throughout ones life
4. Maintain balanced life and work roles
5. Participate in life-long learning supportive of life/work
goals
6. Secure/create and maintain work
7. Understand, engage and manage ones own life/work
building process
8. Make life/work enhancing decisions
9. Locate and effectively use life/work information
10.Understand the changing nature of life/work roles
11.Understand the relationship between work and
society/economy

Scotland

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Context and learning approach (Scotland)

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In Norway
What career management skills are particularly
important?
Are there any areas that you would want to emphasise?
What key policies/contexts does this need to fit with?
Is there a metaphor that could be used?
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Overview
What are career management skills?
Example frameworks
Using them in practice
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Where would a CMS framework be useful








. Some examples based on work in England.


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Understanding and developing myself

1. I know who I am and what I am good at
2. I interact confidently and effectively with others
3. I change, develop and adapt throughout my life


How do you develop these already?

How could you develop these further?

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Example
An adult learning provider working with adults with
learning difficulties developed a toolkit of resources to
help learning advisers and tutors facilitate initial
assessment and person-centred planning.

Through improved understanding of themselves and their
learning needs, learners are empowered to make their
own informed decisions
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Exploring life, learning and work
4. I learn throughout my life
5. I find and utilise information and the support of others
6. I understand how changes in society, politics and the
economy relate to my life, learning and work
7. I understand how life, learning and work roles change
over time

How do you develop these already?

How could you develop these further?
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Example
City of Wolverhampton College used the Blueprint to help
foundation learners to develop career resilience, to build
confidence and to set goals.
The relevant career learning competencies were
integrated into an existing career development programme
to help to sharpen the outcomes of the intervention.
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Developing and managing my career
8. I make effective decisions relating to my life, learning
and work
9. I find, create and keep work
10. I maintain a balance in my life, learning and work that is
right for me
11. I plan, develop and manage my life, learning and work




How do you develop these already?

How could you develop these further?
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Example
The career guidance staff at an FE college organise an
annual career and progression event.
These events are used to challenge preconceived ideas
held by learners from stereotyping. For example, on one
occasion, the work of a successful former female student
was included in a talk by a university on transport design.
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Is this just another thing to worry about?
Career management skills can be integrated into
wider learning
Developing career management skills doesnt
necessarily involve increasing provision
A CMS framework offers a framework of learning
objectives that can be aligned with other learning
objectives
It also provides a framework for different
professional groups to work holistically.

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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

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