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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Career practitioners are invisible

Career development in Aotearoa is an “inchoate occupation”: in other words, we lack clarity as a ‘profession’ (Douglas, 2009, 2010, p. 25; ...

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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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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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Some career development PD

In New Zealand there is a consortium of the University of Otago, Massey University, the Ministry of Health, the Health Promotion Agency, and...

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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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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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Training career development professionals

The results of a 2021 survey of CDANZ and CATE career practitioners show that only  29% of  respondents  hold career-specific graduate or po...

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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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Taking management seriously

As an management educator, one thing that constantly appalls me about New Zealand is how poor most employers are about management training f...

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Notes on virtual conferences

Last year I attended four conferences. This is much more than I would normally attend, and they only became available to me because of Covid...

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