Workshops Programme
ConferenceWorkshops
Subjects, speakers, dates, times
Monday 17 to Tuesday 18 November
Grand Central Hotel, 99 Gordon Street, Glasgow
Conference Workshops and
Continuous Professional Development
A major aspect of our Annual Conferences is CPD and Member’s investment in their professional practice.
Throughout the two-day conference we will be running 24 workshops and two member’s symposia. Presented by experts, these workshops to promote best practice and innovation in the career development sector.
Please take some time to read through the workshop outlines and then complete the Workshops Booking Form at the back of this booklet, detach and return it:
By post:Dan Hope
Career Development Institute
Copthall House, New Road
Stourbridge, West Midlands
DY8 1PH / By email:
By fax:
01384 440830
The workshop rooms in Glasgow are relatively small, seating a max of 17 delegates, so numbers for each workshop will be strictly limited and early booking is advised.
12 noon, Monday 17 November
1. Project based learning in careers education
Anthony Barnes Room: The Mandela
Careers Educators – teachers and advisers, Careers Advisers – working with young people
Project based learning is one of the most effective but under-used ways of helping students to investigate complex questions about self, careers and work. This workshop will show how schools and colleges can raise the profile of careers education by involving students in doing project coursework, homework projects and project qualifications such as the extended project qualification based on career-related topics that they have chosen themselves. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss examples of project-based learning at KS3, KS4 and Post 16 and reflect on the relevance of project learning to the main themes of the conference.
Anthony Barnes writes extensively on careers education matters. He is an honorary life member of CDI and an active supporter of the careers education community of interest. He is currently working on a new edition of Better Practice with Kath Wright.
2. What careers are young people really interested in and what do they really think of the careers support they receive?
Annette Wade Room: Kingston
Careers Educators – teachers and advisers, Careers Advisers – working with young people
When shaping the future of careers learning and support it’s important not to forget the voice of young people. This workshop explores two recent research reports, CASCAiD's Careers Report 2014 and the Trendence School Leaver Survey to examine young people’s ideas and views on careers, education and employers. With data on over 800,000 young people’s interests and aspirations plus over 7,000 opinions on options for school leavers, this session will provide the greatest ever insight into what young people want to do in their future, who they want to work for, where they want to study and what they think of the careers support that they receive.
Annette Wade has been working with schools and colleges on careers learning and support for over 11 years. Over that time she has analysed the changing interests and ambitions of young people. Annette also has experience of working in FE with a particular focus on employer engagement and Apprenticeships.
3. How do students make choices?
Johnny Rich Room: Chamberlain
Careers Educators – teachers and advisers, Careers Advisers – working with adults
How do choices happen? What influences them? And who? If we knew more about how students make decisions about HE – whether to go to university, what to study and which uni to pick – then we might be better able to advise and support their choices.Important pieces of research have recently been published drawing together many studies and surprising insights from behavioural economics.
This interactive session will draw out the headlines and discuss how a better understanding of student decision-making can improve careers practice. This session is led by Johnny Rich, founder of Push, who has been advising HEFCE, universities and other bodies on the research findings.
Johnny Rich is founder and managing director of the social enterprise Push, a leading website for students’ university choices and a major provider of workshops and presentations in schools. As a consultant, Johnny has also worked with most HE information organisations including, HEFCE, Which? BestCourse4Me and many others.
4. UCAS Progress – getting the most from the national course search and apply service for post-16 transition
Adam Molloy Room: Campbell
Careers Educators – teachers and advisers, Careers Advisers – working with adults
This session will provide insight into a very successful NEET reduction initiative and the central part played by the UCAS Progress online application service. We will demonstrate how you can effectively deliver a support service with rich data insight to monitor and track the application process to reduce NEETs.
UCAS Progress is a national service, providing an online careers information and advice hub together with a course Search and Application process serving all post 16 course and training options – A levels and other academic routes, as well as apprenticeships and the full range of vocational pathways.
Now operating nationally, UCAS Progress is not only a comprehensive resource for students, advisers and teachers, it is a proven, valuable tool in the early identification of those at risk of NEET, enabling targeted interventions. It brings visibility to learners’ decision making, progress and destinations as they make their post-16 choices and applications.
The presentation will be given by members of the UCAS Progress team
5. Turning Points: crisis and opportunity?
Lyn Barham and Rosemary McLean Room: Carnegie
Careers advisers – adult clients, Career coaches – talent management
As practitioners we work with clients who experience change, both driven by themselves and imposed by external circumstances. Often these “turning points” create a sense of release and vigour after a period termed 'routine' (Hodkinson et al.). Sometimes they include doubt and threat to established identity. Some turning points may be recognised only in retrospect, but undoubtedly they are important within our understanding of career development. Turning points are experienced by all our clients and at different stages in their career, but may have particular gendered aspects.
This workshop will summarise the research literature on 'turning points', and ask participants to explore its relevance to their own experience and professional practice.
Dr Lyn Barham is a Fellow of NICEC and Legacy Fellow of CDI. Following years of practice as a careers adviser, she now works as a trainer and researcher on career development issues. Interests include the older workforce, and the concept of ‘green guidance’, guidance for an environmentally sustainable future.
Rosemary McLean CPsychol Rosemary is a CDI and NICEC Fellow. In her international consultancy work she supports organisations to improve career conversations in the workplace. She is a career coach, and designs and delivers career development workshops. She has recently been involved in developing a next generation on-line careers tool platform.
6. Building career resilience – how can we enable people manage
Bill Davies Room: Caledonian
All delegates
The future of work has only one certainty – that it is uncertain and unpredictable. There are trends but we have witnessed in the last 10 years the impact of volatile markets, technological advances, demographic shifts, the impact of social media and so forth.
How can we build resilience to this one certainty so that people can better manage themselves through the choppy waters of change? This workshop will examine this from a neuroscience and employability perspective and argue that there are identifiable ways that this can be tackled, both in working with individuals in guidance and through development programmes.
Bill Davieshas over 25 years’ experience in counselling and coaching with particular expertise in career counselling. He has taught counselling skills to post-graduate level; constructed and run professional skills courses for career counsellors and HR professionals, and has created career tools that are widely used.
7. LMI for All: Careers focussed Labour market information
Jenny Bimrose Room: Erskine
Sally-Anne Barnes
All delegates
LMI plays a key role in helping people make better-informed career decisions. ‘LMI for All’ is an online data portal that is being developed by a consortium led by the Institute of Employment Research at the University of Warwick, commissioned by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. This workshop gives background to this development and presents examples of applications that have been developed from this high quality LMI source, providing a tantalizing insight to the future shape and form of the LMI that will be used in careers guidance. Implications for careers practice will be considered.
Professor Jenny Bimrose, now Deputy Director at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, started out as a career practitioner, then she trained career practitioners. For the last 30 years, she has worked in HE with ongoing research including supporting practitioners in their use of LMI in career guidance.
Dr Sally-Anne Barnes, from the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, has an established track record in research, she has worked on and managed a range of projects in the area of technology, careers and learning. She has particular expertise in the development of high quality impartial LMI.
8. Making the most of International Opportunities
Lauren Hendrie Room: St Andrews
All delegates
With up to 5.5 million British nationals currently living abroad and with increasing numbers of young people considering studying abroad, now more than ever it is important for careers practitioners to be aware of the opportunities offered by the international labour market and the possibilities to study abroad. This workshop will outline these opportunities and look at the benefits of undertaking an experience abroad. It will also inform careers practitioners of the support services and resources available to help them in dealing with clients wishing to look at international opportunities.
Lauren Hendrie is the European Projects Manager at Careers Europe, responsible for our transnational development projects, working with partners in the education, training and guidance sectors across the EU including Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Portugal Spain and Sweden. Lauren is a language graduate and has lived and worked in France
15:00, Monday 17 November
1. How not to do a Paris Brown! Aka the effects ofsocial media on your pupil's career progression
Janet Colledge Room: St Andrews
Careers Educators – teachers and advisers
With the opening up of LinkedIn to 13 year olds and most employers ‘Googling’ prospective interns and employees, it is vital that young people recognise the importance of their social media footprint upon their future careers prospects.
This workshop seeks to address how best to support young people to ensure that their footprint is not a hindrance but actually supportive of their career goals.
Janet Colledge has 25 years teaching experience and now runs Outstanding Careers, a specialist consultancy providing advisory, developmental and pragmatic support for schools keen to develop the role of CEIAG in improving school outcomes including destinations and pupil premium data.
2. Parental Guidance
Hilary Nickell Room: The Mandela
Careers Educators – teachers and advisers, Careers Advisers – working with young people
If you are anadviser or teacher helping parents cope on a range of career issues where do you start?
Parental Guidance is a free and helpful website to support parents through the maze of options with useful articles, news and updates. The information in Parental Guidance is brought to you by the Careers Writers Association. We have recognised that parents and carers are in need of clear, concise and impartial information to help steer their sons and daughters in the right direction.
This informal workshop will highlight key features and benefits of the site, while taking the opportunity to explore new topics and information needs suggested by delegates.
Hilary Nickell is careers consultant, trainer and author with specialist skills in web research. He has co-directed five National ‘ICT in CEIAG Conferences' and is current Chair of the Careers Writers Association.
3a. Exploring study options abroad
Jamie Dunn Room: Kingston
Careers Educators – teachers and advisers, Careers Advisers – working with young people
Increasingly students have become interested in exploring their study options abroad. The US-UK Fulbright Commission is a not-for-profit organisation funded by both governments to promote educational exchange between the US and the UK. As part of the EducationUSA network, our advisors are the UK’s only official source of information on educational opportunities in the US.
This session will provide information on the US undergraduate admissions process including how to assist students in determining whether US study is a good fit (or not), step-by-step guidance on the application components, an overview of US university selection criteria and ways Fulbright can support you and your students.
Jamie Dunn, Acting Director, Advising and Marketing. Prior to joining the Commission, Jamie worked in communications roles at the British and American Red Cross and in the Training and Development Office at James Madison University. In her current position, Jamie manages the advising team that supports UK students interested in study in the USand implements the Commission's communications work.
3b. Imagine Studying in Canada
Alison Goodings Room: Kingston
Careers Educators – teachers and advisers, Careers Advisers – working with young people
Students in the UK are increasingly looking abroad, and Canadian institutions represent a tremendous opportunity for students to advance their career opportunities. Students will benefit from high quality education and return home with a globally-recognized degree. Canada provides an exceptional standard of living, safety and healthcare. Canada is internationally recognized for competency-based teaching that prepares students to be productive in the workplace. Canadian institutions are primarily publicly-funded and highly accountable for quality assurance in teaching. Tuition is affordable when compared among top destinations abroad. Many international students can work to gain valuable experience while studying in Canada, as well as work after graduation.
Allison Goodingshas been the Trade Commissioner for Education since February 2013, and has worked at the High Commission since 2006, when she moved to London from her native Toronto. Allison had previously worked at Birkbeck College (University of London) and York University (Toronto). Allison has a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies, where her research focus was on urban food security and community food practices.
4. ‘Sage on the Stage or Guide on the Side?’ – The role of the Careers Adviser in an increasingly automated world
Virginia Isaac Room: Chamberlain
Careers Educators – teachers and advisers, Careers Advisers – working with adults
Recent research from the Pew Research Centre in Washington indicates that 47% of jobs in the US could be done by robots by 2025. This will involve many ‘white collar’ jobs being displaced. Nearer to home, observers have predicted growth in micro production, human wellbeing, ‘wicked issues’ and digital and big data. What impact will all this have on the jobs of the future and what role should careers advisers play in supporting young people? With increasing emphasis on the importance of psycho motor and affective skills as well as cognitive knowledge, should we be guides or sages?
Virginia Isaac is the Chief Executive of the Inspiring Futures Foundation. Previously a Director at UCAS she has also set up and worked in a range of businesses, large and small. She is a governor of the first ‘Dual Sector’ university in the UK (UoW:TSD) and a trustee of the TSD Student Union. Virginia sits on the Quality in Careers Consortium Board and has recently been asked to join the Careers England Board.
5. The Business of Being a Career Coach
Dave Cordle Room: Campbell
Careers advisers – adult clients, Career coaches – talent management
This interactive workshop will allow those already working independently, or considering doing so, to review the key elements of running a successful career coaching business. We will explore motivation, marketing, how to get the important stuff done and other key aspects of being an independent career coach.
Outcomes: for independent career coaches, an opportunity to start preparing their business so it will be even more successful next year. For those considering becoming independent, an opportunity to understand just what it takes.
Dave Cordle is an Independent Career Development Coach working with business owners and staff. He is an accredited Career Management Professional (ICCI – Institute of Career Certification International), Legacy Fellow of CDI and NLP Master Practitioner. He is on the Governing body of ICCI and chairs the Global Career Council.
6. Bringing science careers alive
Alison Eaglesham and Susan Meikleham Room: Carnegie
All delegates
Skills Development Scotland and Glasgow Science Centre are working in partnership to promote careers in science through unique, hands-on experiences. Find out more about how we engage with schools through our structured education programme and our exciting plans for a bigger, industry focused exhibition, with experiential learning at its heart.
Participants will also get the chance to use some of our interactive exhibits, which have been designed to help young people find out about different science careers and discover which jobs might suit them, including trying on virtual outfits relating to science careers, from engineer to deep sea diver.
Alison Eaglesham, Skills Development Scotland, is a qualified careers adviser. She supports partners to develop the career management skills of individuals through Scotland’s career information and advice web service, My World of Work. She works closely with Glasgow Science Centre to raise awareness of science careers through this service.