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PACIFIC CAREERS NETWORK COMMUNIQUE 2009

Published on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 @ 3:48 AM by Admin Account
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This Communique is an output of the Pacific Careers Network (PCN) which was established at the International Symposium for Career Development and Public Policy held in Wellington, New Zealand, in November 2009. It outlines the background and aims of the Symposium, a vision for PCN and definition of career, how the network will function, whom its partners will be, and the next steps for action.

Published on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 @ 7:31 AM by Admin Account
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This is the direction setting document that emerged from the Fifth International Symposium for Career Development and Public Policy that was hosted by Career Services in Wellington, New Zealand from 14 to 17 November 2009.

The themes for the Symposium were:

-Transformational technology

-Prove it works

-Role of the citizen

-Culture counts

The document sets out the Key Outcomes of the Symposium. For each of the four themes the underlying policy principles are identified, as are the follow-up actions for countries and for the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy (ICCDPP). Already Canada has offered to lead on the Theme Prove it works and New Zealand on Transformational technology. Countries who were unable to participate in the Symposium are encouraged to join these international collaborative actions.

The invite-only Symposium was attended by 76 delegates representing policy, practice and research perspectives, comprising teams from 23 countries. In addition, there was senior representation from five international or regional bodies.

For the first time there was significant representation from Pacific Island nations. The focus for these countries was on establishing a career development network in the Pacific region.

The Symposium was opened by the Minister of Education, Hon. Anne Tolley. The Minister of Pacific Island Affairs, the Hon. Georgina Te Heuheu attended the initial meeting of the Pacific Careers Network, which took place during the Symposium.

The Symposium was co-chaired by Lester Oakes (New Zealand) and Kaye Turner (New Zealand) and the work of the Symposium was synthesised by Professor Tony Watts (United Kingdom) and Lynne Bezanson (Canada).

For more information, visit

www.careers.govt.nz

TELEPHONE GUIDANCE PILOT EVALUATION

Published on Thursday, January 22, 2009 @ 9:12 AM by Admin Account
2016 Views :: 0 Comments :: Expanding Access to Guidance, Assessing Effectiveness, Asia Pacific, New Zealand

This is the full external evaluation report of the career guidance telephone pilot evaluation tested by New Zealand Careers Service with young people aged 12 to 29 years of age. It identifies the advantages for the user and the challenges for an experienced guidance practitioner.

Published on Thursday, January 22, 2009 @ 9:06 AM by Admin Account
2022 Views :: 0 Comments :: Expanding Access to Guidance, Assessing Effectiveness, Asia Pacific, New Zealand

This is a good example of a one page briefing paper giving highlights of the evaluation study of a career guidance telephone service pilot project of Careers Service New Zealand

Published on Thursday, January 22, 2009 @ 8:56 AM by Admin Account
1658 Views :: 0 Comments :: Expanding Access to Guidance, Asia Pacific, New Zealand

This report provides information and early findings on a telephone guidance pilot project in New Zealand that targeted young people aged 12 to 29 years of age. It forms part of a larger project testing new ways of making careers information and guidance available to this age group. The findings highlight the perceived advantages for the users of the service and the challenges presented to an experienced guidance practitioner.

Published on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 @ 6:16 AM by Admin Account
2798 Views :: 0 Comments :: Guidance for Employed Adults, New Zealand, Expanding Access to Guidance

This paper sets out the background to the discussion and consultative process that the New Zealand government has embarked on to address medium to long-term anticipated skills shortages. Key aspects of the proposed strategy include developing management and leadership capacity in the workplace, supporting workers to better influence skills development, and strong partnerships between the workplace and formal education and training systems.

Of the four priority areas proposed for action for 2008, improving access to careers information, advice and guidance for employed adults and young people is central to two of these: supply, demand, and measurement of skill acquisition and retention; and young people at work. The role of the New Zealand Careers Service in leading this component of the skills strategy and action plan is highlighted.

Published on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 12:29 PM by Admin Account
3363 Views :: 0 Comments :: Guidance in Schools and Training, Asia Pacific, New Zealand

This is the first major report from the Pathways and Prospects research study about pathway and career-related experiences and perspectives of young people after leaving school. Undertaken by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, it investigates how young people make decisions about their careers and working life, including any part that indecision and “changes of heart” might play in that. This investigation raises some issues about the framework used in thinking about how to support young people in transition. It suggests we take more of a focus on career and identity production. Pathways and Prospects is a 4-year longitudinal study that asks: How do young people describe they are doing and what it means in their lives? How do they see themselves in relation to their pathways? What can we learn in relation to policies and practices? And where they might usefully go from here?

This report focuses on the processes and meaning of pathways choices. To see patterns around this more clearly, the researchers took an innovative approach to analysing the interviews narratives. They used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse the interviews in terms of the major choice themes of

security and exploration. Through quantitative analysis, the dimensions of security and exploration were clustered into Exploration, Contingent Security, and Secure Commitment factors, and the interviews clustered into four groups with distinct profiles: Hopeful Reactors, Confident Explorers, Anxious Seekers, and Passion Honers.

Published on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 12:10 PM by Admin Account
3911 Views :: 0 Comments :: Guidance in Schools and Training, Assessing Effectiveness, Asia Pacific, New Zealand

This research was undertaken in 2006/7 by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research on behalf of the Ministry of Education. The overall aim of this research is to contribute insight that will guide and support decisions about the direction, focus, and resourcing of careers education in New Zealand schools. It stands alone as baseline information about how schools organise careers education, how school principals view careers education, what careers staff think about their role and the purposes behind what they do, and the range of activities in which they engage students.

Published on Monday, September 17, 2007 @ 3:45 AM by Admin Account
4341 Views :: 0 Comments :: Ensuring Quality, Assessing Effectiveness, Asia Pacific, New Zealand

In the evaluator's opinion, New Zealand Careers Services represents the most fully integrated example in the world of an all-age career guidance delivery structure. The report (2007) describes the key features of the service and sets down five challenges to be addressed:

public awareness/market penetration
the guidance needs of adults
relationships with other guidance service providers
a stronger evidence base
strategic leadership.

Published on Friday, March 30, 2007 @ 4:03 PM by Admin Account
5091 Views :: 0 Comments :: Guidance for Unemployed Adults, Guidance for Employed Adults, Guidance for Older Adults, Guidance for Disadvantaged Groups, New Zealand

This report presents the results of the third and final stage of research commissioned by the New Zealand Department of Labour (DoL) to identify:

the reasons for the non-participation in paid employment of those aged 45 years and over;
the potential role of career information, advice and guidance (CIAG) in assisting that group;
and what options for targeted CIAG would be most beneficial to this group.

Using a qualitative research approach, this research stage focused on subgroups of mature non-participants identified in the survey. Subgroups included people who were actively looking for paid employment and those who were not, and groups based on age, gender, ethnicity and carer responsibilities and/or disability.

The level of importance paid employment played in their emotional and financial well-being were the main drivers in underpinning their interest in entering/re-entering the workforce rather than demographic and situational characteristics. Knowing how to gain job-seeking assistance depended on how motivated mature non-participants were to re-enter the workforce, and how recently they had looked for work. The research also explored the satisfaction of mature non-participants with existing career information, advice and guidance services and how they conceptualise an ideal careers service for their age group.