I was recently very privileged to be interviewed by Hoda Kilani’s Career Info show on YouTube. Hoda is a career development expert and practitioner based in Alberta, Canada. Hoda’s Career Info consists of career discussions with leading global experts in career development. Through these discussions she seeks to increase awareness about the importance of career…
Do we need to overhaul careers education in schools and colleges? Inside Your Ed podcast
It was a great privilege to be asked by Tom Richmond to talk about career education on the EDSK podcast, Inside your ED. It was really great to be able to go into a bit of depth about the history of recent careers policy and to consider what we could learn from it. In the…
Questioning tech: The past, present, and future of survey tools
If you want to hear me talking about the history of online surveys you are in luck. I’m interviewed on Liam Geraghty’s Questioning Tech podcast. In this podcast he takes us through the history of surveys with me popping up towards the end to talk about online surveys. Warning though, he is also selling a…
#WeAreCareers S5 E1 – Why we need a career guidance guarantee
I had the great privilege of joining Chris Webb and MeetSabiha on #WeAreCareers yesterday. If you haven’t watched this show before, you really should. It is a regular YouTube show which looks at all things careers and features all sorts of interesting guests. You can get it most easily by subscribing to the CDI YouTube…
The future of work and how to stay employable
It was a real privilege to be interviewed by Jeremy Cline on the Change Work Life podcast the other day. Jeremy’s podcast is essential listening for everyone in the career development world. He now has 112 episodes, most of which consist of conversations between Jeremy and other experts in different aspects of career development. Recent…
Reaching the hard to reach
Reaching the ‘hard to reach’ – A creative conversation A couple of months ago I was invited to take part in one of David Cameron‘s ‘creative conversations’. These are professional development events for Skills Development Scotland. In this session I discussed the involvement of families in supporting the career development of young people with Phil…
Interview on Careers Up North
Ingrid Bårdsdatter Bakke interviews me in the latest episode of the Careers Up North – karrierefaglig synsing podcast about career guidance, policy and social justice. The podcast is in a mix of Norwegian and English, but sadly I don’t dare to try to speak any Norwegian. So for non-Scandinavians you will still find lots to listen to……
You and yours
Yesterday I was on Radio 4 show You and Yours talking about the employment prospects for graduates. I find these kinds of media appearances really difficult. You always have so little time and so it is really easy to get squeezed into saying something too simplistic and missing out on a lot of the nuance….