Tuesday 2 April 2013

Join us at the first international eCareer Services Symposium!

Carole Brown

In less than two months, as part of this year's CDAA 2013 National Conference, Australia will host the first eCareers Services Symposium, and we could not be more excited that it is coming up so soon!

Tannis Goddard
The idea for the symposium was born at the 2011 Budapest symposium on career development and public policy. Tannis Goddard and our National President Carole Brown got together and imagined a magical ground-breaking event. A gathering of some of the world's finest experts in the application of technology and career development coming together with practitioners, policy makers, researchers, educators and learning designers.

Tannis' and Carole's energy, enthusiasm and talent proved irresistible and they quickly drew up an invitation list and mapped out a broad agenda. 
Jenny Bimrose

Jaana Kettunen
Since then the journey has been shared with two more fantastic women - Jenny Bimrose and Jaana Kettunen - as the program for the symposium was developed over the past 12 months. Much has been considered, ideas formulated and matured, process and content refined.

 It has been a fantastic collaboration and we believe this is only the beginning!


In this blog  we will share ideas, resources and discussions. We will provide links to valuable reading, hear your views and become part of a conversation that we hope will extend well beyond the symposium itself.

In the meantime, you can find more information about the symposium here. 
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20 comments:

  1. Carole Brown3 April 2013 at 18:13

    I am looking forward to welcoming more than 100 delegates to the symposium!

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  2. Jenny Bimrose4 April 2013 at 00:11

    And I'm going to be there because of my firm belief that the integration of ICT in careers practice is one of the most important challenges (if not the most important) facing the careers profession today. This has the potential to improve services to clients greatly - isn't that what we're all about? Sharing experiences and pooling resources must help us achieve this goal.

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  3. Julie Farthng11 April 2013 at 17:21

    Hi, I am looking forward to this as well. The results from the survey I conducted on current-day online activities tells me that there has been a huge change in the mindset of career development practitioners over the past ten or so years. I don't want to reveal too much as it will spoil my workshop on the 24th, but let's just say that as a profession we are now ready to embrace technology in our client-based work.

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    1. Carole Brown12 April 2013 at 01:10

      That's very cool Julie - looking forward to hearing more about the research and to catching up again.

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    2. Tannis Goddard13 April 2013 at 19:46

      Hi Julie,
      I really enjoyed sharing perspectives on the use of technology in our field when I was last in Australia. Really interested to hear about your latest survey results and have a chance to dialogue about uptake and impact across jurisdictions!

      Tannis

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    3. Julie Farthng14 April 2013 at 17:00

      Hi Tannis

      Thanks. I am really looking forward to hearing what you have to say as well.

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  4. Ray van Es13 April 2013 at 09:50

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  5. Anonymous13 April 2013 at 21:36

    As a representative of the WA Career Centre I am very much looking forward to the esymposium. Learning about new ways of providing access, governance and practitioner competency will help us to broaden access to Career development services for all. Very excited and very ready!.

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    1. Tannis Goddard14 April 2013 at 18:15

      Its great to hear that this symposium is coming at the right time for you! If you have a couple of minutes, it would be great to hear about how the WA Career Centre is currently utilizing technology.

      Any advanced understanding of current uses will help us ensure that the program meets the current needs.

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    2. Anonymous22 April 2013 at 00:39

      The WA Career Centre is an open access, all age career development centre providing training, occupational and career information to the WA public and an increasing number of migrants settling here.

      We are part of the Department of Training and Workforce Development which also contracts 8 regional and 4 metropolitan community based workforce development centres.

      Our new interactive website provides multi channel access to support and information via web chat, email, phone, face to face and through social media. The site contains 2 large occupational and training databases and links to an occupational Youtube channel. The site provides a range of simple career exploration tools and includes interactive self service facilities such as an online phone booking process s and connected individual portal accounts. A lite version of the site can be accessed via mobile technology.

      Our online and offline services are integrated via a managements system which enables capture of all client data into one client record.

      You are very welcome to visit our site at www.careercentre.dtwd.wa.gov.au. As stated previously I am very interested in governance and practitioner competency. I think we have the access covered, for now! However, changing our practice and process is another challenge altogether.

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  6. Tannis Goddard14 April 2013 at 11:54

    I am thrilled to be returning to Australia and the CDAA Conference to engage in discussions about this important topic. When I was last in Australia at the conference (2007 – Perth; 2008 – Hobart), I had the great fortune of meeting many practitioners interested in the use of technology within career services. The examples of such use was, however, in its infancy. Five years later the use of technology in career services is less debated, there is a growing understanding that technology is a part of career development and the bigger question is how, as a field, are we researching and understanding effective delivery models and sharing them to ensure that we develop quality and effective approaches.

    This Symposium will give us a very unique opportunity to collect and share state-of-the-industry experiences and interpretations that can help influence the field at large. I am very excited to be joining with my colleagues Jenny and Jaana and all of you who will be participating on May 22! This should be a very exciting event.

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  7. Carole Brown9 May 2013 at 20:53

    Hi all, here is some recommended reading on this topic:

    Bimrose, J., Hughes, D. & Barnes, S-A(2011) 'Integrating new technologies into careers practice: Extending the knowledge base', Wath-upon-Dearne, London: UK Commission for Employment and Skills, [Report] Available at: http://www.ukces.org.uk/publications/integrating-new-technologies

    Bimrose, J., Barnes, S. -A. and Attwell, G.(2010) 'An investigation into the skills needed by connexions personal advisers to develop internet-based guidance: full report', 1 - 65, Reading: CfBT Education Trust, Report of an empirical investigation into the demand from young people for internet-based guidance, together with the readiness of connexions services to deliver. (Full & Executive Reports are available online.) [Research Paper] Available at: http://www.cfbt.com/evidenceforeducation/pdf/Warwick_Connexions_WEB.pdf

    Bimrose, J. and Barnes, S. -A.(2010) 'Labour market information (LMI), information communications and technologies (ICT) and information, advice and guidance (IAG): the way forward?', 1 - 57, London: UK Commission for Employment and Skills, [Report to Government] Available at: http://www.ukces.org.uk/assets/ukces/docs/publications/lmi-ict-and-iag.pdf

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  8. Anonymous12 May 2013 at 20:24

    Excellent. Thank you Carole. Look forward to reading this material as a backgrounder to the esymposim. Really looking forwad to it.

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  9. Anonymous12 May 2013 at 20:38

    The two key outcomes I am seeking from the career services symposium are:

    How to evaluate and develop ICT service delivery;
    How to encourage and develop CDP competency and enable successful facilitation of online services; and
    How to take advantage of social media.

    Sorry that is three!

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  10. OTEN Counselling & Career Development Service - Paul Colwell13 May 2013 at 16:29

    Hi Everyone, several of my TAFE Counselling & Career Development service colleagues are coming along with me as we are increasingly dealing with electronic career enquiries which can become ethical delemmas around privacy, identity issues and other codes of conduct, whilst also keeping best practice in mind. I hope to obtain a clearer understanding of how to implement e-careers walking this fine line of compliance with ethical standards through robust debate.

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  12. Judith Leeson AM15 May 2013 at 20:49

    I am very interested in both the public and private good that results from the effective use of on-line career services.
    However in this symposium I am wanting to learn more about how to develop an online service for private practice, and also tools for ensuring on-line payment.

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  13. Anonymous15 May 2013 at 22:35

    Hi everyone, This man is our latest technology in CD hero. Can we have him along with everyone else involved this year, next year please?

    http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/5-things-that-career-companiesservices-should-want-to-do-with-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-1001

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  14. Caroline Cleland20 May 2013 at 19:57

    In answer to the question about what we are looking forward to getting out of the symposium, my aim is to come away like a kid from a lolly shop. Technology is such a huge and exciting area to dabble in that I want to find focus and clarity about issues and tools - to hear about what career practitioners are finding useful, what clients appreciate, how problems are being solved, what directions are emerging and how to spend my pocket money (time and learning effort) for maximum benefit and pleasure.

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  15. Carole Brown11 September 2013 at 12:00

    Really great blog post from Jane Schmidt regarding the symposium. Fabulous testament to the delegates:

    http://mixtmodeblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/3-take-a-ways-from-the-australian-cdaa-2013-conference/

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