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Rethinking e-Guidance: The changing role of technology in careers work

Facilitated by Professor Jim Sampson
with Dr Tristram Hooley

Venue: University of Derby
From: 10.00 am to 3.45 pm

The Programme

There has been a revolution in career guidance in the last decade or so. Information resources have proliferated, e-devices are commonplace and used by a large percentage of the UK population, they are becoming more sophisticated. A new language is fast developing, not only are the job titles of some guidance practitioners changing but so are the ways in which they work: blogging and twittering are becoming commonplace, googling is a long established habit of the careers worker.Jim Sampson is an international expert from the University of Florida with a strong interest in guidance and new technology. Tristram Hooley is a specialist in social networking in education and guidance. Together they will illuminate the current trends in guidance and new technology and what they trends might mean for guidance practice. The programme will include the following topics:

• The "Understanding, Acting, and Coping Model" for using the Internet
• Counselling strategies for helping young people and adults use information on the Internet
• Ethical use of the Internet to deliver career resources and services
• Making sense of the Web and social networking
• Making effective use of social networking in providing career resources and services
• Using the social web: blogging, twittering and social networking

Professor Sampson has published widely on the appropriate use of computer technology in counselling, career decision making, and strategies for improving the design of career resources and services. He has received a number of prestigious national awards in the USA for his contribution to enhancing careers research, policy and practice; most recently the JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Technology in Career Development (2004) and the American Counseling Association Professional Development Award (2005).

Jim is the Mode L. Stone Distinguished Professor of Counseling and Career Development in the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, Florida State University (FSU), and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Technology in Counseling and Career Development. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Derby, UK and the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is an Overseas Fellow of the National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling.

Jim has worked with a wide range of organisations worldwide to:

• design counselling strategies that help young people and adults make good use of computer applications;
• create implementation strategies for the cost-effective use of ICT in guidance; and
• generate 'needs-based' delivery models for careers and guidance services.

In recent years, Jim has concentrated his UK activities on supporting the development of regional and national information, advice and guidance services for young people and adults, including Connexions Services in the East and West Midlands, University Careers Advisory Services, Careers Scotland and Northern Ireland Careers & Guidance Services. Further information on Jim's work is available here.

Target Audience

This workshop will be particularly valuable for practitioners and trainers in careers advice and guidance related roles who wish to explore new and effective guidance practice. It will also interest managers and researchers wanting to keep up to date with new research and practice.

Cost

The delegate fee for this event is £120 (plus VAT).

Booking form available here or telephone 01332 591267.