Leading career development services into an uncertain future: Ensuring access, integration and innovation
The symposium of 2019, organised by Kompetanse Norge/Skills Norway, an agency of the Ministry of Education, will focus on exploring how the world in which individuals are pursuing their careers is changing and how people across the world ... Read More
John McCarthy
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Sep2018
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) has produced an excellent policy document on career services for all South African citizens. In a country with rampant unemployment, poverty, and inequality, this DHET publication views career guidance as a policy tool to support the employability of citizens and the sustainable ... Read More
September 11, 2018John McCarthy
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Jun2018
What can behavioural economics propose for better labour market policy interventions to assist newly unemployed persons to regain employment? Some suggestions are quite useful while others are more controversial! Read here!
One challenge that unemployed persons face is identifying their own transferable skills and seeing such transferable skills presented in descriptions of other ... Read More
June 26, 2018John McCarthy
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Jun2018
Australia, like many countries, struggles to have a national career system that is modern, fit for purpose, of quality, and provides equality of career support for all citizens, regardless of where in Australia they live. In 2017, the Department of Education and Training engaged a management consultancy firm to research ... Read More
June 26, 2018John McCarthy
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Apr2018
Did we ever imagine the day when we would see robots laying bricks for the construction of buildings? They already have their feet in the auto, electronics, metal product manufacturing, and plastics and chemicals industries, so where will they stop?
So which kinds of jobs are we as humans losing? And ... Read More
April 1, 2018John McCarthy
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Apr2018
"She was a fishmonger, and sure t'was no wonder,
for so were her father and mother before"
(Words of a well known Irish song, Molly Malone)
So what are the chances of children following in the occupational footsteps of their parents? Read here
Is nursing the career of the future for men? Read here
Is ... Read More
April 1, 2018John McCarthy
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Apr2018
England, the largest home country of the UK, is not a stranger to policy changes for career guidance provision over the past 20 years, some of which have been better or worse for citizens than the precedent!
The most recently launched policy paper 'Making the best of everyone's talents and skills' ... Read More
April 1, 2018John McCarthy
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Apr2018
The 9th International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy will take place in Tromse, Norway, 17 to 20 June, 2019, under the aegis of SKILLS NORWAY!
More details will be announced on this site.
April 1, 2018John McCarthy
13
Nov2017
This 2004 review covered 7 countries: Chile, Russia, Philippines, Poland, Romania, South Africa, and Turkey. The study sought to:
to identify and describe the distinctive issues faced by developing and transition economies in forming effective policies in career guidance and counseling;
to identify emerging examples of best practice, and suggest ... Read More
November 13, 2017John McCarthy
11
Sep2018
OECD: CAREER GUIDANCE AND EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT