I will be presenting my work on Researcher Ethics in the CIAG sector this coming Thursday at the Career Development Institute/AGCAS/NICEC/University of Derby National Research Conference 2022
Why would someone choose to be a careers adviser?
One of the modules I’m teaching this trimester at UWS is Career Development Theory, examining the theories that explain how and why people make career decisions. A career decision I often wonder about is “Why would someone choose to be a careers adviser?” I’m not being flippant; I see few reasons why the media representation of the role would influence anyone to become one. From the outside, it’s not a job that gets good press. There is a heck of a lot of bad-mouthing of the careers profession and its purpose, the occasional high-profile media story (nobody mention Mary Poppins ) and then there’s the section in every celebrity life story ever: “They told me to/not to do it, the clueless adviser, and they were so, so wrong.” We know that high profile TV programmes boost the profile of certain careers. CSI led to a raft of wannabe forensic scientists. Call the Midwife and One Born Every Minute respectively give young people a dramatised and fairly realistic view of the midwif
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