Mind the [research] gap

Tara Brabazon (2025) talked about the SOCK - the significant contribution to knowledge - and the research gap in a video last year, citing a...

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Financial literacy quiz

In 2012, the OECD surveyed member nations on the financial literacy of their citizens, asking eight questions covering the "basic knowl...

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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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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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Does a skills gap exist?

Employers the world over are talking about the shallowness of the talent pool, and the difficulty in obtaining people with good technical...

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Uemployment Mind the Gaps

Hank Boyer from the US' National Career Development Association (NCDA) reposted a great infographic today from the National Business Res...

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