International Best Practice in Career Education and Guidance

International Best Practice in
Career Education and

Development
Professor Tristram Hooley
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Overview
What is career education and development?
Career development around the world
The role of the careers professional
Using technology
Building a career guidance culture
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Overview
Using technology
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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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Key activities
Career information (including online information)
Career advice and guidance
Career education
Experiential learning
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Rationale for career education and

development
It benefits both the individual and society.
It supports a range of policy goals
Learning and education
Employment and the economy
Social mobility and social equity.
It benefits a range of stakeholders including individuals,
employers, public employment services, schools and other
education providers.
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In Saudi Arabia
Career education and development will help to
Empower Saudis to equally consider all sectors of the job
market.
Instil the value of a productive, lifelong career.
Encourage the principle that all jobs are valued.
Engender realistic expectations about entry-level jobs.
Enable Saudis to plan their careers according to personal
aspirations and market needs.
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Overview
Using technology
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Across the world

Career education and development exists all over the
world.
Detailed reviews have been conducted in 55 countries.
There is lots to learn from this experience.
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Important differences
Different labour
markets
Different education
systems
Different cultures
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Building a system in Saudi Arabia

We need to learn from the best in the world
And create career education and development fit

for Saudi
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Summarising the evidence base: focus

on the individual
1) Career
development should
be lifelong and
progressive.
2) Career
development should
connects
meaningfully to
individuals wider
experience and
lives.
3) Career
development needs
to recognises the
diversity of
individuals.
Focus on
the
individual
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support learning and progression
5) Career
development should
support individuals
to acquire career
management skills.
4) Career
development is not
one intervention, but
many which work
when combined.
6) Career
development needs
to be holistic and
well-integrated into
other support.
Support
learning
and
progression
7) Lifelong guidance
should involve
employers and
working people, and
provide active
experiences of
workplaces.
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Summarising the evidence base:

ensuring quality9) You need good8) The skills,
training and
dispositions of the
professionals are
critical.
quality career
information for
effective career
development.
10) Career
development
should be qualityassured and
evaluatedt.
Ensure
quality
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Focus on the
individual
1) Lifelong guidance is most
effective where it is
genuinely lifelong and
progressive.
effective where it connects
meaningfully to the wider
experience and lives of the
individuals who participate
in it.
effective where it
recognises the diversity of
individuals and relates
services to individual needs.
Support learning
and progression
Ensure quality
4) Lifelong guidance is not

8) The skills, training and
one intervention, but many,
dispositions of the
and works most effectively
professionals who deliver
when a range of lifelong guidance are critical
interventions are combined.
to its success.
5) A key aim of lifelong
9) Lifelong guidance is
guidance programmes
dependent on access to
should be the acquisition of
good-quality career
career management skills.
information.
6) Lifelong guidance needs
10) Lifelong guidance
to be holistic and wellshould be quality-assured
integrated into other support and evaluated to ensure its
services. effectiveness and to support
7) Lifelong guidance should continuous improvement.
involve employers and
working people, and provide
active experiences of
workplaces.
10 evidence-based principles for the

design of lifelong guidance services
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Table discussions
Does Saudi Arabia need career education and
development?
What issues should it focus on?
What can we learn from other countries?
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Overview
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Career support
Career
professional
Career
informants
Individual
e.g.
Teachers
Family
Friends
Community
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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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Qualifications
Variety of qualifications internationally.
Commonly at degree or postgraduate level.
Sometimes it is an additional qualification (e.g. for a
teacher) sometimes it is an independent qualification.
Commitment to ongoing professional development.
At the moment Saudi Arabia does not have any training
or qualifications in this area.
This is what we are currently developing.
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What do qualifications cover?
Having effective career conversations

Working with groups and developing curriculum
Organisational change
Understanding the labour market
Theories of career decision making and career
development
Referral (understanding other professional services)
Reflective practice
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A career in careers
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Table discussions
In Saudi Arabia
Who should be trained as career education and
development professionals?
What should this training focus on?
How would it best be delivered?
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Shift happens
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The internet changes

The context for career building
The skills we need to build our careers
The way in which we can deliver career support
One to one
One to many
Many to many
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The changing context for career
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Changing
Curating
Collecting
7 Cs of
digital
career
literacy
Creating
Communic
ating
Critiquing
Connecting
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Using technology to deliver career

support
Providing information
Enabling automated interactions (e.g. career games and

simulations)
Supporting new types of communication
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Table discussions
How can we best use new technologies for career
education and development in Saudi Arabia?
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Overview
Using technology
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Training and education
Continuing professional development
A community of practice
Conferences
Online discussions
A professional association?
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Table discussions
How do we build a culture for career development in
Saudi Arabia?
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Some of my research
Hooley, T. (2012).
How the internet changed career: framing the relationship between career development and online
technologies
. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC), 29: 3-12.
Hooley, T. (2013). Career Development in Canada. Derby: International Centre for Guidance
Studies, University of Derby.
Hooley, T. (2014). The Evidence Base on Lifelong Guidance. Jyvskyl, Finland: European
Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN).
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): 117131.
Neary, S., Marriott, J. and Hooley, T. (2014).
Understanding a 'career in careers': learning from an analysis of current job and person specificati
ons
. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies. University of Derby.
Taylor, A.R. & Hooley, T. (2014).
Evaluating the impact of career management skills module and internship programme within a unive
rsity business school.
British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 42(5): 487-499.
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Tristram Hooley
Professor of Career Education
International Centre for Guidance Studies
University of Derby
http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs
t.hooley@derby.ac.uk
@pigironjoe
Blog at
http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com
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Conclusions
Career education and development is an internationally
recognised activity.
There is an extensive evidence based.
However, Saudi Arabia will need to rethink it for its local
context.
Well trained professionals are critical.
The internet is changing the context for career
development.
There is a need to build a career development culture.
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International Best Practice in

Career Education and

Rationale for career education and

Across the world

Building a system in Saudi Arabia

And create career education and development fit

Summarising the evidence base: focus

Summarising the evidence base:

Summarising the evidence base:

4) Lifelong guidance is not

10 evidence-based principles for the

Skills of career professionals

Career development theory

What do qualifications cover?

Having effective career conversations

The internet changes

The changing context for career

Using technology to deliver career

Enabling automated interactions (e.g. career games and

Supporting new types of communication

Building a career guidance culture

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