Challenges and Benefits of Engaging Employers

Challenges and Benefits of Engaging Employers
Webinar Recordings - Recorded in November 2019
CPD Competency - Professional Practice Application

In this presentation, Professor Tristram Hooley examines how career development professionals can work with employers and working people to build impactful career development interventions.

There is considerable evidence that suggests how career development services should be best organised. One of the key features highlighted in the evidence base is the importance of engaging young people, and others who are inexperienced in the labour market, in interactions with employers and working people. In this presentation, Professor Tristram Hooley examines how career development professionals can work with employers and working people to build impactful career development interventions. It examines the different approaches and techniques that career development professionals can use and explores which approaches are most effective and considers under what circumstances they should be best used.

Career development professionals need to walk a careful line when they are working with employers, both building strong relationships with them and maintaining independence from them. In the presentation Professor Hooley suggests a series of ways forward for career professionals.

Key areas that are addressed include:

- Why is it important that young people are engaged with employers as part of their career development?
- What is an employer? Who should young people meet when they interact with employers?
- What different approaches can be used with employers? What evidence exists to support each of them?
- What are some of the challenges of work with employers and how can this be overcome?

Presenter Biography

Tristram Hooley is Professor of Careers Education at the University of Derby, Professor II at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and Chief Research Officer at the Institute of Student Employers. He is a leading international expert in career and career guidance and has published seven books and over a hundred articles, book chapters and reports. He is particularly interested in the way in which career development work interacts with social justice, politics and technology. He is currently researching quality systems for career guidance in Australia and editing the Oxford Handbook of Career Development. He also writes the Adventures in Career Development blog.
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