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Using the Blueprint to realise a career development approach

Tristram Hooley (Reader in Career Development) LSIS Engaging with employability and career development

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What is the Blueprint?

An international movement around career management skills A framework for thinking about career development and supporting career learning A series of resources to support its implementation

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Development of the Blueprint

National Career Development Guideline (US) http://associationdatabase.com/aws/NCDA/asset_manager/ get_file/3384/ncdguidelines2007.pdf Blueprint for Life/Work Design (Canada) http://www.blueprint4life.ca/blueprint/home.cfm/lang/1 Blueprint for Career Development (Australia) http://blueprint.edu.au/ Career Management Skills Framework (Scotland) http://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/our-story/keypublications/career-management-skills-framework.aspx Blueprint for Careers (England) http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/node/1332

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Career management skills

The mix of skills, attributes and attitudes that it takes you to manage your career across life. The Blueprint is an attempt to articulate these career management skills in a way that supports their development.

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Blueprint for careers

Curriculum
Work related learning

Career development activities

Advice and guidance

Understanding and developing myself

1. 2. 3. I know who I am and what I am good at I interact confidently and effectively with others I change, develop and adapt throughout my life

How do you develop these already?

How could you develop these further?

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Example
An adult learning provider working with adults with learning difficulties developed a toolkit of resources to help learning advisers and tutors facilitate initial assessment and person-centred planning. Through improved understanding of themselves and their learning needs, learners are empowered to make their own informed decisions

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Exploring life, learning and work

4. 5. 6. 7. I learn throughout my life I find and utilise information and the support of others I understand how changes in society, politics and the economy relate to my life, learning and work I understand how life, learning and work roles change over time

How do you develop these already? How could you develop these further?

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Example
City of Wolverhampton College used the Blueprint to help foundation learners to develop career resilience, to build confidence and to set goals. The relevant career learning competencies were integrated into an existing career development programme to help to sharpen the outcomes of the intervention.

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Developing and managing my career

8. I make effective decisions relating to my life, learning and work 9. I find, create and keep work 10. I maintain a balance in my life, learning and work that is right for me 11. I plan, develop and manage my life, learning and work

How do you develop these already?

How could you develop these further?

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Example
The career guidance staff at an FE college organise an annual career and progression event. These events are used to challenge preconceived ideas held by learners from stereotyping. For example, on one occasion, the work of a successful former female student was included in a talk by a university on transport design.

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Is this just another thing to worry about?

Career management skills can be integrated into wider learning Developing career management skills doesnt necessarily involve increasing provision The Blueprint offers a framework of learning objectives that can be aligned with other learning objectives The Blueprint also provides a framework for different professional groups to work holistically.

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Using the Blueprint

You are free to use the Blueprint as you please and to adapt it. You may find it useful in providing evidence of a coherent policy for Ofsted, Matrix and other quality frameworks.

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Tristram Hooley
Reader in Career Development International Centre for Guidance Studies University of Derby http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs t.hooley@derby.ac.uk

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