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Last week we ran a webinar to provide an introduction to The Career Development Handbook. Just in case you have missed it, this is a new book written by Gill Frigerio, Rosie Alexander and myself. The book is designed to give a comprehensive introduction to the field and practice of career development. The book is idea for people studying on Level 6 and 7 programmes, or for established professionals who want to keep up to date with the latest innovations in the field.

We recorded the webinar, so you can access it if you missed it.

We would also like to invite people to a full one-day workshop on the 6th March. Where we will be getting into the book in a lot more detail. We’d love to see you there.

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Thursday 6th March – 9.30am to 4.30pm
Location: Kedleston Road Campus, Derby DE22 1GB
£125

At the start of March we are offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend the day with me, Gill Frigerio and Rosie Alexander for a one day workshop exploring The Career Development Handbook.

The workshop will help you to:

• Understand the resources offered by the Handbook for Career Development Professionals.
• Identify how the book can be used in training and supporting Career Development Professionals in a range of different contexts, including initial training programmes, organisational settings and in CPD activities
• Reflect on your own practice as advanced practitioners

All attendees will also receive a copy of the book.

• More information about the workshop
• Book your place

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Yesterday I was set to fly to South Korea to address the Jeju education for designing a happy future conference. But, sadly the imposition of martial law gave me pause for thought and I decided not to get on the plane. Thankfully it now appears that the coup has been defeated and South Korea’s democracy will endure.

Because of this I ended up getting up this morning at 3.30am to present to the conference remotely. But, the conference went ahead and it proved to be a really interesting event, even if I had to attend remotely. In it presenters talked about the future and how to make sure that the education system prepared young people for the future and also tried to ensure that it will be a happy future.

At the moment I’m struggling to feel fully optimistic about the future, but I remain certain that the future is contingent on the actions of human beings. The recent events in South Korea demonstrate this far better than any lecture that I can give. When people rise up and assert the future they want they can achieve it. This leaves the important question as to how the education system can foster this kind of individual and collective agency and help people to become the authors of their own future. It is to this that my presentation tried to speak.

So, this is what I had to say.

I’ve spent the last couple of days at the CDI conference. This was a great experience and was the biggest of these conferences since the pandemic. We heard some very encouraging things from the Department for Education (although there is still some considerable way to go with this).

I felt that there was a very positive atmosphere. Although careers work has been pretty beleaguered for the last decade, there was a sense that the new government might offer better things. Some of us were daring to hope for the better. Let’s hope that the government can deliver on their promise.

I gave a keynote about the nature of careers and careers work and tried to remind everyone that this is complex and important work. This is what I had to say.