Last month I had the opportunity to participate in an ISE webinar to talk about what works in careers and employer engagement in schools. It was a great opportunity as, as well as me, there were also employers and representatives of schools there. I talked about currently policy and practice, but then we all rolled up our sleeves and tried to solve some of the real problems that people on both sides of the education and employment divide experience.
It is definately worth a watch….
I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed as part of Veilederforum-podden (the Norwegian guidance forum’s new podcast). In the podcast I discuss the issue of sustainability in career guidance with Mari Thorbjørnsrud from the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills.
In the conversation we discuss both the definition of sustainability associated with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals set out a broad vision for a sustainable and fair society. But, we also focus in on the issue of the climate crisis and discuss sustainability in this sense as well.
In all cases, the question is ‘what has this got to do with career guidance?’. In the podcast we explore this and consider a range of ways in which career guidance can make a difference to these issues.
The podcast starts in Norwegian, but quickly moves back into English as I am not confident enough to show off my faltering Norsk on a podcast.
I was recently very privileged to be interviewed by Hoda Kilani’s Career Info show on YouTube.
Hoda is a career development expert and practitioner based in Alberta, Canada. Hoda’s Career Info consists of career discussions with leading global experts in career development. Through these discussions she seeks to increase awareness about the importance of career literacy and offering tips designed to give people confidence as they pursue their career.
In this interview I talk about careers and the future and the importance of avoiding panic when we hear about changes in society and the economy.
I hope that you enjoy the show and subscribe to Hoda’s Career Info…
It was a great privilege to be asked by Tom Richmond to talk about career education on the EDSK podcast, Inside your ED. It was really great to be able to go into a bit of depth about the history of recent careers policy and to consider what we could learn from it. In the podcast you will hear me and Rebecca Montacute from The Sutton Trust in riotous agreement about how career education and guidance needs to be improved.
Hopefully a few politicians are listening.
If you want to hear me talking about the history of online surveys you are in luck. I’m interviewed on Liam Geraghty’s Questioning Tech podcast. In this podcast he takes us through the history of surveys with me popping up towards the end to talk about online surveys. Warning though, he is also selling a new product called Intercom Surveys, so expect to hear a lot about that. Nonetheless, it is well worth a listen…
Questioning tech: The past, present, and future of survey tools
I had the great privilege of joining Chris Webb and MeetSabiha on #WeAreCareers yesterday. If you haven’t watched this show before, you really should. It is a regular YouTube show which looks at all things careers and features all sorts of interesting guests. You can get it most easily by subscribing to the CDI YouTube channel.
Yesterday I was talking politics (for a change). We discussed why career guidance was so important, why politicians should care about it and what we are doing with the Career Guidance Guarantee to push that forwards. If you haven’t signed the Career Guidance Guarantee yet, then please sign it now. Once you’ve done that you can kick back and enjoy me, Chris and Sabiha talking careers, politics and why we all need to shout much louder for what we believe in.
It was a real privilege to be interviewed by Jeremy Cline on the Change Work Life podcast the other day.
Jeremy’s podcast is essential listening for everyone in the career development world. He now has 112 episodes, most of which consist of conversations between Jeremy and other experts in different aspects of career development. Recent episodes have focused on the changing workplace after Covid, finding fulfilment and how to make yourself visible at work. All well work a listen.
In my episode Jeremy and I discuss the future and what people can do, both individually and collectively, to ensure that they will still have a careers. Inevitably we discuss robots and the gig economy, but we also touch on globalisation, digitalisation, politics, the economy and career guidance. As ever I argue that it is important not to panic and to recognise that while change happens many things also stay the same.
Jeremy has produced excellent shownotes as well as a brilliant podcast.
Listen to Episode 112: The future of work and how to say employable
Reaching the ‘hard to reach’ – A creative conversation
A couple of months ago I was invited to take part in one of David Cameron‘s ‘creative conversations’. These are professional development events for Skills Development Scotland. In this session I discussed the involvement of families in supporting the career development of young people with Phil Beadle, former Teacher of the Year, author and iconoclast and Suzanne Zeedyk, a developmental psychologist and leading campaigner about the impact and effect of Adverse Childhood experiences.
It was a really interesting conversation, so I thought that I’d share it here for anyone who is interested.
Ingrid Bårdsdatter Bakke interviews me in the latest episode of the Careers Up North – karrierefaglig synsing podcast about career guidance, policy and social justice.
The podcast is in a mix of Norwegian and English, but sadly I don’t dare to try to speak any Norwegian. So for non-Scandinavians you will still find lots to listen to…
Om social justice/sosial rettferdighet i karriereveiledning – med Tristram Hooley
Yesterday I was on Radio 4 show You and Yours talking about the employment prospects for graduates.
I find these kinds of media appearances really difficult. You always have so little time and so it is really easy to get squeezed into saying something too simplistic and missing out on a lot of the nuance. In this appearance I was trying to get over the idea that the graduate market is very challenging, but that graduates shouldn’t give up as there are still jobs out there.
You can judge for yourself as to whether you think that I was successful.