The NICEC Journal

Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, issue 27, November 2011

Towards a new professional status? Challenges and opportunities for the careers profession.

This issue takes forward the debate at the NICEC National Network Meeting in March 2011. The network meeting discussed the issues addressed by the report Towards a Strong Careers Profession and situated these within a broader understanding of the nature of professions and the challenges faced. This issue of the journal extends that debate and reflects on the implications for the future of the career guidance profession in challenging times. Innovative thinking and practice is required at this turning point for the careers profession: you’ll find that thinking in this issue.

Editor: Hazel Reid.

Articles

• The Careers Profession Task Force: Vice Chair’s perspective                                    Rachel Mulvey
• Professionalism in turbulent times: challenges to and opportunities for professionalism as an occupational value                                      Julia Evetts
• The future of careers-work professionalism: fears and hopes                                       Bill Law
• Re-framing and re-telling: the changing identity of the career guidance profession                     John Gough

• The emerging policy model for career guidance in England: some lessons from international examples      A.G. Watts
• A Careers Adviser? So what do you do exactly? Siobhan Neary
• Beyond words: an exploration of the use of ‘visual tools’ within career guidance practice.    Samantha Cregeen-Cook
• Creative writing practices in career guidance: an autoethnographical approach.            Laurie Simpson

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Aims and Scope
The NICEC journal publishes articles on the broad theme of career development in any context including:
•Career development in the workplace: private and public sector, small, medium and large organisations, private practitioners.
•Career development in education: schools, colleges, universities, adult education, public career services.
•Career development in the community: third age, voluntary, charity, social organisations, independent contexts, public career services.

It is designed to be read by individuals who are involved in career development-related work in a wide range of settings including information, advice, counselling, guidance, advocacy, coaching, mentoring, psychotherapy, education, teaching, training, scholarship, research, consultancy, human resources, management or policy. The journal has a national and international readership.

Individual copies, Subscription And Membership
The journal is published twice a year (cover price £20) and can be purchased via an annual subscription (£35 UK or £50 overseas). For more information, please contact Barbara McGowan at barbara.mcgowan@btinternet.com.

Membership of NICEC is also available (£100). Members receive the journal, invitations to NICEC network events and other benefits. For more information, see the Join Us page or contact Lyn Barham at lyn.barham@nicec.org.


Guidelines for Contributors
Manuscripts are welcomed focusing on any form of scholarship that can be related to the NICEC Statement . This could include, but is not confined to, papers focused on policy, theory-building, professional ethics, values, reflexivity, innovative practice, management issues and/or empirical research. Articles for the journal should be accessible and stimulating to an interested and wide readership across all areas of career development work. Innovative, analytical and/or evaluative contributions from both experienced contributors and first-time writers are welcomed.

Main articles should normally be 3,000 to 3,500 words in length and should be submitted to one of the co-editors by email. Articles longer than 3,500 words can also be accepted by agreement. Shorter papers, opinion pieces or letters are also welcomed for the occasional ‘debate’ section. If submitting in the period May to October, please send to Phil McCash. If submitting in the period November to April, please send to Hazel Reid. In all cases, the co-editor should be contacted prior to submission to discuss the appropriatenesss of proposed article and receive a copy of the NICEC style guidelines. Final decisions on inclusion are made following full manuscript submission and a process of open peer review.

Co-editors of the Journal
Phil McCash, Career Studies Unit, Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL. p.t.mccash@warwick.ac.uk
Hazel Reid, Centre for Career and Personal Development, Faculty of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University, Salomons, Broomhill Road, Southborough. Kent, TN3 0TG. hazel.reid@canterbury.ac.uk

Editorial board
Anthony Barnes, Barbara McGowan, Phil McCash and Hazel Reid