Month: October 2023

Yestersday, I had the opportunity to present to the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) in Wellington, New Zealand. The TEC is a Crown Agency which leads the Government’s relationship with the tertiary education sector in New Zealand and provides career services from education to employment. The TEC invests over $3 billion into tertiary education and supporting…

Today I ran a workshop on career guidance in schools for the CDANZ conference in Auckland, New Zealand. In it I tried to distil down the learning that we’ve had from 12-13 years of a school based career guidance system in England and use it to prompt some thinking about how colleagues might want to…

Yesterday I keynoted the Career Development Association of New Zealand conference in Auckland. It was a great first day, and wonderful to be together with such a wide group of committed practitioners from New Zealand and overseas. I was asked to talk about the idea of investment in career development services. My core message was…

I have just had the opportunity to present to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce about the importance of career and the future of work. My aim, as always in these things, was to try and present some kind of corrective to public and press scaremongering about the future, particularly in relation to AI and automation….