STUDENT CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION. From Student to Registered Career Development Professional

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1 STUDENT CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION From Student to Registered Career Development Professional Tuesday 31 st March 2015 University of Coventry: Jaguar Building, Gosford Street, Coventry, CV1 5DL Overview The new generation of career development professionals have a key role to play in the future of the career development sector. This conference will be of interest, relevance and value to students undertaking any of the qualifications accepted for the UK Register of Career Development Professionals. Designed to highlight the latest developments in the sector, it is presented by a range of expert keynote speakers who are leaders in the field. The workshop sessions offer additional opportunities to learn more about working in the sector; key resources; how the QCG/D has prepared former students for employment and the invaluable role that research plays in sector developments. Supported by a small exhibition of sector providers and suppliers, the conference is a great networking opportunity too. You will meet students from other courses and learn more about the support provided by the CDI to its members and Registrants. Audience Students undertaking any of the qualifications accepted for the UK Register of Career Development Professionals, and practitioners in their first year of employment. There are a maximum of 60 places for this event. Cost The event is free for QCG/D students, i.e. covered by their QCG/D Registration fee. QCF Level 6 and other students studying for careers related qualifications are welcome to attend. All these student places are charged at 20 plus VAT. Programme Registration, Refreshments and Exhibition Welcome from the Career Development Institute Claire Johnson: CDI Professional Development Manager Welcome from the Conference Sponsor Squadron Leader Glyn Dean MBE MA LLb RAF Keynote 1 Understanding the current landscape Karen O Donoghue: President CDI Keynote 2 Using LMI with clients of all ages. Dr Sally-Anne Barnes: Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Institute for Employment Research 1

2 11.10 Keynote 3 Telling Tales : exploring and applying a narrative career counselling approach. Dr Hazel Reid: Reader in Career Guidance and Counselling and Director of Research in the Faculty of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University Refreshments and Exhibition Workshops Buffet Lunch and Exhibition Keynote 4 Devolving responsibility for careers guidance to schools is it working? An overview of national policy and the implications for the work of careers advisers and careers leaders in schools David Andrews OBE: Fellow of the National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling Workshops Refreshments Plenary: The Way Forward Sharing suggestions on how the CDI can further support students during their studies and first years of employment - in small groups. Claire Johnson: CDI Professional Development Manager Evaluation Conference ends Workshops 1 Delegates will be able to select one from the following: 1. If you look the part you ll get the job : appearance in the workplace and the role of the career development professional How you look at a job interview makes a difference. Many of us have advised/will advise clients to think about what to wear and to make sure they look polished and well-presented. But are we the right people to give this advice and how far should we go? This interactive workshop will present evidence of the impact that appearance can have on careers and Julia will pose some controversial questions to generate discussion around how practitioners negotiate the issues and what their role should be. Julia Yates: Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the MSc in Career Coaching at the University of East London. 2

3 2. Critical websites a vital mediation role in the advisers toolkit At a time when the influence of internet and social media impacts almost every minute of our waking day, what is the crucial IAG and CEIAG space Advisers must occupy if we are to remain relevant in an increasingly google reliant age? This workshop will equip delegates with the knowledge and where appropriate skills to: Recognise the importance of delivering informed and professionally mediated careers, learning and training information Provide a wide range of the very latest and appropriate web-based media to complement the guidance process Explore the privileged as well as vital role Advisers play in supporting individuals of all ages through many of life s key transitions and crossroads Hilary Nickell: qualified Careers Adviser, trainer and author specialising in careers, learning and training information on the internet. He is a Project Manager of Career Companion Online, an all-age professionally mediated web review service, and Resource Companion Online; a content management portal for web-based information. 3. An overview of the benefits and challenges of working as a Career Consultant in the HE Sector and how the QCG at NTU and Coventry helped to prepare us for this role. Becci Hubbard: Careers Consultant (Business School); The Employability Team, Nottingham Trent University. Phillip Williams: Career Development Consultant, Career Development Service, Division of Student Experience, University of Leicester, Workshops 2 Delegates will be able to select one from the following: 1. The Role and Work of NICEC NICEC is a network of career guidance and counselling practitioners and researchers who believe strongly in improving policy and practice. This is achieved by sharing and disseminating good practice, and developing theory and policy through research. This workshop will discuss NICEC s previous and current work, especially concerning the development of the proposed new careers service for schools in England, and the members new research projects. John Gough: NICEC Fellow and Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in Career Guidance at the University of Coventry. 2. An overview of the benefits and challenges of working as a Careers Adviser in a Catholic Sixth Form College and how the QCG at Huddersfield helped to prepare me for this role John Morrison: Careers Manager, Aquinas College, Stockport, Manchester. 3. Looking at key career resources A hands on look at the wide range of resources available for delivering career development. Covering different media from paper based, posters and DVD s through to software. The workshop will consist of an overview of a selection of resources from a variety of publishers with the opportunity to browse the material on display. Tony Ollerenshaw - Prospects Education Resources has over 25 years experience working in Careers Education, either as a Head of Sixth Form or a Head of Careers Education in a large

4 school. During the last eight years he has supported Prospects Education Resources as a Careers Consultant providing a wide variety of schools and colleges with careers and higher education solutions for their organisations. Key Note Speaker Biographies Karen O Donoghue is the chair of Axia Interactive Media, Chief Executive of The Via Partnership Limited, a social business delivering career and workforce development services and President of the UK wide Career Development Institute. Previously Karen was a Director of the Institute of Careers Guidance, Board member of the Lancashire Learning and Skills Council and former Vice Chair of the trade body Careers England, where she now leads on Workforce Development. She is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a former trustee of the charities Lancashire Education Business Partnership and Lancashire Council for Voluntary Youth Services. Karen has also been voted one of the leading business women in Lancashire for the last seven years. Dr Sally-Anne Barnes is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick. With an established track record in research, she has worked on and managed a range of projects in the area of technology, careers and learning. Sally-Anne specialises in and is currently involved in researching: new forms of internet-enabled labour exchange, employability and career adaptability; the development of high quality impartial labour market information; and the use of ICT to support the professional development of careers professionals. She is principally interested in the interrelationship between technology, work, careers and learning. Sally-Anne has expertise and extensive knowledge of national, regional, local and sectoral based labour market information (LMI). Dr Hazel Reid is a Reader in Career Guidance and Counselling and Director of Research in the Faculty of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University where she co-ordinates the Auto/Biography and Narrative Research theme group. She is a Heritage Fellow of the Career Development Institute, a Fellow of the Academy of Higher Education, a NICEC Fellow (National Institute of Career Education & Counselling) and co-edits the NICEC journal. Hazel's research interests are supervision within career counselling, the development of narrative career counselling and the use of biographical methodologies for research in educational fields. She serves on the steering committee of the Network for Innovation for Career Counselling and Guidance in Europe (NICE), is a founding fellow of the European Society for Vocational Designing and Career Counselling, and is involved in other European projects. Hazel has many publications and her latest book, edited with Linden West and published with Routledge, is Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change: a transdisciplinary approach to researching lives. She is currently writing An Introduction to Career Counselling and Coaching for Sage publications, which will be published in David Andrews OBE works as an independent education consultant, trainer, researcher and writer specialising in career education and guidance. He leads courses for careers leaders and careers advisers, provides consultancy to local authorities, schools and careers companies and has spoken at numerous conferences. David is a Fellow of the National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling (NICEC) and was an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge s Faculty of Education for many years. He is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Career and Personal 4

5 Development, Canterbury Christ Church University and a Visiting Fellow in Career Education and Guidance at the International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby. Most of his work is in the UK but he has worked on projects in East Africa, Kosovo and Pakistan. David is an honorary life member of the Career Development Institute (CDI). In 2011 he authored Careers Education in Schools, a book on the history of the development of careers education in schools and which goes on to critically examine current policy, practice and possibilities for the future. Before moving into freelance work in 1998, he taught in secondary schools and then worked as an advisory teacher in a careers service and an LEA adviser. David has worked as an adviser to the DfEE, the DfES and the DCSF, but not yet to the DfE. Exhibitors to date Prospects Emqc ltd (Matrix) Chartered Institute of Legal Executives RAF 5