The benefits of PD

All professions evolve, with technological advancements, regulatory changes, and shifting societal expectations, so on-going PD is essential...

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Eight important PD reasons

In Aotearoa New Zealand, we are beginning to entwine Western, Māori and Pasifika models of practice in career development. PD becomes even m...

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To do action lists to embed CPD

With digital technologies, accessing continuing professional development (CPD or PD) is easier than ever (Drude et al., 2019). The challeng...

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Professional development learning and logging

One inadvertent result of the pandemic is how accessible webinars and online training courses have become. I have been a professional member...

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What career practitioners do

There is such diversity in practitioners’ roles. Even considering one aspect - that of labour market information, or LMI - we feel the press...

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Impartiality and career development

When we are working with our career development clients, we need to ensure 'impartiality'. The CDANZ Code of Ethics, by which all me...

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Free career journals

It always staggers me how much a journal can charge for one article: for example, an Elsevier publication article that I had ordered from my...

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Professionalising and qualifying

It has been said that career development in Aotearoa is an “inchoate occupation”, lacking clarity as a ‘profession’ (Douglas, 2009, 2010, p....

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Comparing national career practitioner competencies

The global labour market is continually affected by change: technology, change in human expectations, demand and supply, globalisation, migr...

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