From Vocational Guidance to Portfolio Careers: A Critical Review
Posted: 28 September 2009
The iCeGS 12th Annual Lecture
10 December 2009
University of Derby
The 12th iCeGS annual lecture will examine the fundamental changes that have affected the concepts and related practices associated with career guidance. Dr Barrie Hopson will undertake a 40-year journey from the talent matching process of vocational guidance in the 1970s to life in 2009 where every job is temporary, people are energised to create the right blend between work and the rest of their lives, and there appears to be significant generational differences between Generations Y, X and the Baby Boomers. Some people have single track careers, others enjoy serial careers, more are creating lifestyle careers and over one million people already have portfolio careers.
'Vocational Guidance' is the term used four decades ago when Barrie produced his first book. Within very few years that term metamorphosed into careers guidance, then careers education, on to career development and career management. This latter term was placed in the centre of a Lifeskills model. His most recent works considers career and life planning for people in their 50s and the issues associated with creating a portfolio career. Barrie will explore the fundamental changes that have taken place across the decades in the UK which have impacted on the ways in which guidance practitioners have undertaken their work and will speculate as to what might come.
Further information from www.derby.ac.uk/icegs