A tripartite approach to career

I was thinking that in many ways, Hall (2004) was a seer. In 1976, he described the protean career, "a career orientation in which the ...

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Employee/employer skill perception gap

Now here is an interesting thing. A report by Marcolin and Quintini for the OCED (2023) found that employers and employees really do have a ...

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Bump of Language

A phrenological diagram (Combes, 1934, p. 20, citing Dolci, 1562) Despite having done languages at secondary school, I sadly do not have ...

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The Zeil app for New Zealand jobs

Have you heard of Zeil.ai, the 'new' job app, created by Zuru sibling, Anna Mowbray? Released in 2023 (Scoop, 2023), Zeil is/was des...

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Shifting skill levels

In our work we need to consider how the workforce is changing. For example, 'blue collar' work in the UK "fell from 62 per cent...

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Strategies to reduce client resistance

In an earlier post ( here ), I explored six questions we could use for reflection, which may help us to see the barriers for clients who are...

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Five questions to tackle client resistance

We all encounter resistance with clients, but I am not sure we necessarily stop to reflect on why that resistance has arisen. Reflection giv...

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Attend, Reflect/Respond, and Collaborate (ARC) model

There are many practice models in the career development area. However, it is difficult to find models which suit different cultures. In Aot...

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Micro-skills in career practice

Micro-skills are “specific and observable communication units” (Ivey & Daniels, 2016, p. 100). Micro-skills include both verbal and non-...

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Bias: up the lead judging

I was recently reading a post on LinkedIn which talked about the marker bias that we can introduce without realising it. This is why secon...

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Skill versus Privilege

(Morris, 2015) Social Justice can be defined as " in a just society, opportunities, resources and services are distributed equally ...

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