NICEC Network Event: How do we learn to be career development professionals?

This NICEC Network Meeting will explore some of the tensions and opportunities around initial and continuing training and development for the field including:

• Pathways and qualification levels at Levels 4/6/7
• How far training and roles can be seen as generic or context specific
• Scope and limitations on careers roles
• The relative emphasis on working with individuals and working with systems (with organisations, with policy, with other professionals)

Outline and speakers for the Session:

2.00-2.10 Welcome and setting the scene – Gill Frigerio, Associate Professor,
University of Warwick

2.10- 2.30 Hannah Blake from the University of Derby - co-author of the
report commissioned by the CDI into the training and qualification system
for the career development profession: Qualifications and professionalism incareer development. Hannah will review the current state of play and share the
recommendations identified in the report.

2.30 – 2.50 Gill Frigerio of the University of Warwick will draw on recent
research to explore key ideas relating to competence frameworks and how
professional development programmes are delivered.  

2.50 – 3.10 – Comfort break and break out discussions

3.10 – 3.30 - Bob Gilworth from the University of Huddersfield will explore how
careers professionals understand and adapt their practice to the environment
they work in with a particular focus on working in the HE sector.

3.30 – 3.50 - David Winter – Building ongoing growth and confidence -  the importance of reflective practice and how to adapt that to the AI era.

3.50 – 4.10 – Break out discussions

4.10 – 4.30 - Final plenary chaired by Gill Frigerio.