Excellent career guidance

Tristram Hooley, Presentation to

Christs Hospital School 17th March 2015

What Im going to cover

What is
excellent
career
guidance?

Why is it
important?

What are
independent
schools
doing?

Options for
moving
forwards

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What Im going to cover

What is
excellent
career
guidance?

Why is it
important?

What are
independent
schools
doing?

Options for
moving
forwards

www.derby.ac.uk/icegs
www.derby.ac.uk

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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Types of careers services

information provision
career assessments and tests
career counselling
careers advice delivered by a non-careers professional
curricular interventions
further study/work-related learning
other extra-curricular interventions
frameworks for reflection

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Three ways of thinking about this

Activity based approach
Service based approach
Curriculum/learning based approach

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Teachers roles

Career informant

Tutorial roles

Pastoral support

Teaching roles

Within-subject

Teaching careers

Leadership roles

Careers leader

Senior leader
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Good career guidance (Gatsby)

A stable careers programme

Learning from career and labour market information
Addressing the needs of each pupil
Linking curriculum learning to careers
Encounters with employers and employees
Experienced of workplaces
Encounters with further and higher education
Personal guidance

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Good career guidance

Professional infrastructure
for careers workers
Involvement of
employers and
post-secondary
learning providers
in the education
system

Quality and
evaluation

Activities and resources

Advice and guidance
Curriculum

Local brokerage
and partnership
organisations

Careers co-ordinator
Senior leader buyin
School
vision

High quality LMI

and resources
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Discussion points

What provision do you currently have in existence?

Activity, service or learning based provision?
What is the role of the teachers?
What kind of infrastructure do you need?

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What Im going to cover

What is
excellent
career
guidance?

Why is it
important?

What are
independent
schools
doing?

Options for
moving
forwards

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The impacts of lifelong guidance

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Career guidances contribution to social

mobility

Provide access to information and intelligence about the labour and

learning markets in ways that transcend existing social networks
Demystify labour and learning market systems.
Engage with individuals assumptions about themselves and the
world around them
Listen to individuals aspirations and help them to operationalise
these as well as considering alternatives.
Build the skills that people need to make decisions and transitions
and to progress in their career (career management skills).
Broker access to networks.
Provide mentoring and support to encourage persistence and
remaining resilient in the face of setbacks.

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Discussion points
Is career guidance prominent enough?
How do you plan to monitor and evaluate its impact?

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What Im going to cover

What is
excellent
career
guidance?

Why is it
important?

What are
independent
schools
doing?

Options for
moving
forwards

www.derby.ac.uk/icegs
www.derby.ac.uk

Independent schools careers practice

Not much research on this.
For the Gatsby research we visited:

Berkhamsted School, Hertfordshire;

Downe House School, Newbury, Berkshire;
Dulwich College, London;
King Edward VI High, Edgbaston, Birmingham;
Magdalen College School, Oxford.

We have also talked to the key external providers of

careers services that target independent school.

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Independent schools findings

Frequently resource careers work well e.g. organising careers fairs,

trips and visiting speakers.
Commonly have a careers leader (Head of Careers). This may be a
teacher or a guidance professional.
Use of an external provider e.g. Inspiring Futures or COA to deliver
advice and guidance and career assessments.
Strong focus on university (UCAS).
Often extra-curricular or co-curricular rather than embedded.
Make use of parents and alumni for connections to the labour
market.

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Boarding schools
Careers and university preparation activities can be held
after supper.
Vocationally focused clubs e.g. Medical Society (often
student run).
But also some challenges due to often being situated
away from employment centres.

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Discussion points
How do you think that you compare to other independent
schools?
How does being a boarding school change the way that
you will approach this?
How will you use the Old Blues?

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What Im going to cover

What is
excellent
career
guidance?

Why is it
important?

What are
independent
schools
doing?

Options for
moving
forwards

www.derby.ac.uk/icegs
www.derby.ac.uk

Questions
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How does careers link to the schools ethos?

Who should lead career guidance in the school?
How do you ensure links with the labour market?
How do you ensure links with post-secondary?
How can you best make use of your alumni community?
What should be the focus of the careers space that you
have?
7. How do you build a connection to curriculum?
8. How do you focus extra-curricular careers learning?

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Worth reading

Andrews, D. (2011) Careers Education in Schools Stafford: Highflyers

Publishing
Bassot, B., Barnes, A., & Chant, A. (2013). A Practical Guide to Career
Learning and Development. Abingdon: Routledge.
Gatsby Charitable Foundation (2014). Good Career Guidance. London:
Gatsby.
Huddleston, P., Mann, A. and Dawkins, J. (2012). Employer Engagement in
English Independent Schools. London: Education and Employers Taskforce.
Hutchinson, J. (2012). Career-related learning and science education. School
Science Review, 346: 91-98.
Hutchinson, J. (2013).
School Organisation and STEM Career-related Learning. York: National
STEM Centre.
Hutchinson, J., & Dickinson, B. (2014). Employers and schools. Local
Economy, 29(3): 236-245.
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Other stuff Ive written on this

Hooley, T. (2014). The Evidence Base on Lifelong Guidance. Jyvskyl,

Finland: European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN).
Hooley, T., Matheson, J. & Watts, A.G. (2014).
Advancing Ambitions: The role of career guidance in supporting social mobility
.
London: Sutton Trust.
Hooley, T., Marriott, J. and Sampson, J.P. (2011).
Fostering College and Career Readiness: How Career Development Activities
in Schools Impact on Graduation Rates and Students' Life Success
. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby.
Hooley, T., Marriott, J., Watts, A.G. and Coiffait, L. (2012).
Careers 2020: Options for Future Careers Work in English Schools. London:
Pearson.
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
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Derby.

Tristram Hooley
Professor of Career Education
International Centre for Guidance Studies
University of Derby
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t.hooley@derby.ac.uk
@pigironjoe
Blog at
http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com

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