Final e-symposium communiqué now available

The final communiqué of the e-career services symposium - held as part of the CDAA 2013 National Conference in May - has been completed and is now available to view here.

The communiqué has been structured to provide a distillation of key findings on the first two pages, for easy reference.

The communiqué also contains 14 recommendations spanning policy, practice and research, which set a compelling agenda for action.

CDAA has an important role, along with others, in progressing this agenda particularly in the realm of professional development. This will be part of the agenda at the next meeting of the CDAA Learning and Development Committee, and some of the brains behind the sympsium, Jaana Kettunen, Professor Jenny Bimrose and Tannis Goddard, will be presenting the symposium findings at the IAEVG conference in France. There will also be opportunities for further collaboration internationally.

Thank you to everybody who contributed to the final document and to making the symposium a success.

Symposium draft communiqué now available

After the success of the 'world-first' E-Career Service Symposium at the CDAA Conference in Sydney in May, we are pleased to let you know that the draft communiqué is now available for participants and others who are interested.

The communiqué provides an analysis of the three key themes the symposium addressed - policy, designing and research for practice - together with a summary of the collective contributions and conclusions of those present at the event. It has been prepared to inform stakeholders and to guide future actions. 

It is now time to hear your feedback - the five great women behind the symposium, former CDAA President Carole Brown, Jenny Bimrose, Deirdre Hughes, Tannis Goddard and Jaana Kettunen, are keen to hear your thoughts on the document and would welcome your response by August 26 via email. Responses can be directed to communications@cdaa.org.au. 

Feedback will then be folded into the final version for presentation at international and national forums over the coming months. CDAA will also provide a specific response to the final recommendations.  

The draft communiqué can be accessed here. 

We would like to thank all participants once again for attending and are looking forward to hearing your thoughts as we progress this document into the future. 

Symposium presentations

The symposium - along with the 2013 National Conference -has come and gone and CDAA is thrilled with the attendance and feeback from the event.

When the idea of the symposium was born, organisers were hoping for about 40 registrations - it ended up being well over 100 and we could not be happier with the progress that was made and the conversations that were started.

A special shout-out goes to our lovely presenters who came to Sydney from all corners of this world and who really made the symposium the success it was.

From left: Dr Deirdre Hughes, OBE, Tannis Goddard, Carole Brown, Jaana Kettunen

Please see below the presentations from the day for your reference. 

We would also love to keep the conversation going - so please share what you thought of the day, what you got out of it, and also what other questions you might have as a result of the day so we can build on what we started last week. 

Presentations:

Opening session - View

Tannis Goddard breakout session - View

Dr Deirde Hughes and Professor Jenny Brimrose breakout session - View

Jaana Kettunen breakout session - View

You might also be interested in this handy resource by our very own Carole Brown: "Career Counselling by email - Guidelines for Practitioners". 

Deirdre Hughes to join the symposium

You might have heard that one of our symposium presenters, Jenny Bimrose, had an unfortunate accident that led to a fractured hip, meaning that Jenny sadly will not be able to join us in Sydney.

We wish her well for a speedy recovery and thank her for her outstanding contribution to the symposium.

We are extremely lucky that we have been able to secure an outstanding replacement for Jenny - Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE, Associate Fellow at the Warwick Institute for Employment Research.

Please see a short biography of Deidre below:

Dr Deirdre Hughes

Deirdre Hughes is a Commissioner and Non-Executive Board Director at the UK Commission for Employment & Skills (UKCES) and Chair of the National Careers Council for England . She was awarded an OBE for services to career guidance in the 2012 New Year Honours List. Deirdre provides strategic leadership and expert advice on the UK, EU and international evidence-base for careers policy, research and practice. She is a lead expert consultant on the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) on quality assurance and evidence-base for policy and systems development. She has a distinguished record as a leading academic, trainer and consultant in careers work.

Deirdre is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research (IER), Warwi
ck University, where she works alongside academic colleagues on careers policy, research projects, including: ‘Adult Career Progression and Advancement: a five-year study of the effectiveness of guidance’, the role of career adaptability and skills supply, the use of labour market intelligence and information (LMI), social networking, social bookmarking and wiki technology to create new ‘communities of knowledge and practice’. She is also an Associate Consultant at the Edinburgh University Centre for Educational Sociology exploring the impact of careers websites. In 2004, she was awarded a University Readership in Guidance Studies at Derby University, where she then worked as Founding Director of the International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS, 1998-2008). She is currently Director of  ‘DMH Associates’ which was established in 2008 to deliver high quality training and development work on careers policy, research and practice activities.

You can find an updated symposium program to reflect the change here. We are excited to be able to welcome Deidre in Sydney and are looking forward to her contribution to the conference.

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.