Careers Education & Guidance Services Shock Report
Posted on 5:08pm, 2nd September 2010 • 2 Comments
Connexions (the state’s careers education and guidance service for teens) has zero impact on teenagers’ thinking about educational and career choices. Who says? 16,000 young people (in the well-researched 2010 report
Career counsellors for positive change
Posted on 4:46pm, 18th August 2010 • 1 Comment
Bel Mooney’s book Small dogs can save your life started me thinking about career counsellors’ place in the wider scheme of things. Less cute than fluffy white puppies, career counsellors are at least as good at changing lives! They just do it differently….
Work for politicians!
Posted on 5:59pm, 3rd August 2010 • No Comments
Paid work is what most of us do throughout our adult lives; it’s a necessity if we’re to live reasonable lives, pay our bills, keep society functioning and connect to the wider community. Many of us enjoy our work, others hate it but however we feel about it, it’s the glue that holds society together. So [...]
Career Czar needed NOW!
Posted on 4:17pm, 25th July 2010 • 1 Comment
You put in a czar to sort out mega social problems (drugs, for example) – I’d argue UK careers policy and careers services are in such a mess they can only be tackled effectively at government level. People thrive and help build the decent society
Jobs outlook grim – how to keep hope alive
Posted on 5:17pm, 15th July 2010 • No Comments
There’s an unending stream of bad news stories about the jobs outlook right now and medium-term prospects seem even worse. How do you keep enough hope alive to work for a better future if you’ve just lost your job or haven’t even been able to get started on your career?
Student career advice that works in 2010
Posted on 12:23pm, 5th July 2010 • No Comments
Until very recently, the most commonly given student career advice was – go to university if you possibly can, you’ve better career prospects with a degree. That student career advice has been questionable for some time but at least it kept teenagers motivated and gave them a clear goal to aim at. What’s happened over [...]
Job search strategies to put you at the head of the jobs queue
Posted on 12:11am, 22nd June 2010 • No Comments
What job search strategies give you the best chances of getting back into a good job fast in spite of the awful state of today’s jobs market?
Degree study – will any of the government proposals work?
Posted on 1:19pm, 14th June 2010 • No Comments
“We can’t carry on like this any longer”! chorus all the stakeholders concerned with the organisation of degree study in the UK. And that’s where the agreement and the analysis end and the special interest pleadings take over. Which isn’t helpful because there’s not much time to prevent the catastrophe on its way for degree [...]
Staff performance management tips for very small companies
Posted on 6:03pm, 28th May 2010 • No Comments
Staff performance management’s easy in small companies, right? Sitting next to each other, you see what everyone’s doing and how well they’re doing it and if there’s a problem, you just lean over the desk and sort it all out. Pause
“Which university?” the wrong question for today’s teens
Posted on 12:15pm, 24th May 2010 • 3 Comments
Bright teenagers shouldn’t be asking their advisors “which university” and “which degree course” but whether it’s actually in their interests to do a conventional degree at all.