Thursday 23 December 2010

Advice on learning and work:

what is a disadvantage, and how do you overcome it?

The government's plans for a universal careers service for adults address the needs of people across more than one spectrum.

They aim to help the highly qualified and educated as well those with minimal or perhaps no qualifications – and all in between.

They aim to help old and young adults and all between, and achieve continuity with careers advice services for young people.

They aim to help those active and only slightly underachieving in the labour market as well as those who start far from it, perhaps having spent a long period out of work or never having worked – and all between.

They aim to offer the same service to people with physical, psychological or socio-economic difficulties as to those without them.

Thus the introduction to an article by Ruth Hawthorn and Judy Alloway in Career Research and Development: the NICEC Journal Number 22 (Winter 2009/2010).

Hazel’s comment:
Is it really possible for one service to provide all that?
If it's “watered down” for those with minimal education will the service be appropriate for the more highly educated?
Will every adviser need to be a specialist on “physical, psychological or socio-economic difficulties”?

Hazel's further comment:
It is unfortunate, to say the least, that one of the principal journals in the field of career research is so spasmodically available to researchers in the British Library. Number 23 is showing in the catalogue but is not yet available to be read by the likes of you and me.


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