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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From feudalism to a world of work

A couple of years ago I read a history of how our modern world work arose, as it appeared to the author (Stolzoff, 2023, 37%; also read here...

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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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Burdening factors

I read an interesting article recently which mentioned the concept of the "burdening factor" (Oksa et al., 2023, p. 1740). The imp...

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Reflecting on PD

Over the past couple of years I have written a few posts on the intersection between professional development and reflection ( here , and lo...

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PD sanctions and benefits

I have written a couple of posts about professional development logs ( here ), but a few things about PD are still niggling. Firstly, should...

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Professional development reflection logs

My curious nature means that I do a lot of annual PD: usually over 400 hours (of courses, conferences and reading). The professional organis...

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What is interdisciplinarity?

Interdisciplinarity is an interesting idea. I have previously posted ( here and here ) on this topic, about taking knowledge from one area ...

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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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Career practice and family members

Career practitioners are just like everyone else on the planet: we have a human need for support networks of family and friends; essential f...

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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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Career practitioner and career counsellor

What is the difference between career practice and career counselling? Career ‘counselling’ has been defined as “addressing choice and devel...

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