Publications
Designing a Generic Career Studies Module: a Practical Example
This module has been devised and written by Phil McCash as the lead author. The booklet provides a detailed example of a generic career studies module, complete with learning activities and indicative reading lists. It has the potential to inform embedded discipline forms of career learning, as well as discrete trans-disciplinary modules.
Growing Careers Education from the Grassroots Part 2
Details of 19 diverse employability projects funded by CCMS at universities throughout the British Isles. This booklet is a companion publication to the earlier Growing Careers Education from the Grassroots and shows the continuing vitality of careers work and the potential for academics and careers staff to undertake innovative curriculum projects in the area of employability.
Growing Careers Education from the Grassroots Part 2
Career Studies Module: Working in Postwar Britain
As part of our commitment to developing discipline situated forms of career learning, CCMS funded (through a competitive process) Dr. Will May at the University of Southampton to develop a career studies module for English. The report on his module - Working in Postwar Britain- provides a detailed example of a career studies module and a fascinating personal reflection on the development process.
Destinations® Community Development Grants - Project Reports
Last year CCMS funded two HEIs to demonstrate how to adapt Destinations® using modest amounts of money. The two reports show how they successfully achieved this. The project leaders, Denise at DCU and Kathleen at Cornwall College, are happy to be contacted by any anyone who wants more detail on how they undertook their projects.
Dublin City University Project
New Directions in Career Studies: English and Media Degrees
New Directions in Career Studies: English and Media Degrees contains outlines for innovative modules at four universities. These articles were submitted to the CCMS in response to a competitive funding call in July 2010. The publication of this booklet is part of the ongoing and developing legacy of CCMS.
The booklet can be downloaded for free here:
New Directions in Career Studies: English and Media Degrees
Which Way is Forward? Images, Ideas, Realities, and the Uses of Career Metaphor.
This paper authored by Bill Law and David Stanbury, explores the potential for metaphors to illuminate thinking about career. The article looks at the ways that metaphors work, describes two overarching metaphors for career - career as a journey and career as a race - and discusses some informal research which suggests that different groups of people (academics, careers advisors and students) might tend to use different sorts of metaphors to orientate themselves to career learning.
The article can be downloaded from the Career-Learning Café website (http://www.hihohiho.com/ ) at: http://www.hihohiho.com/magazine/mkngtwork/cafimages.pdf
Travellers’ Tales – Careers Journeys After the PhD
A resource pack for careers staff and academics to use in supporting PhD students in career planning. This workbook consists of 8 case studies and resulted from a collaborative project between CCMS, Catherine Reynolds (Sussex University), Sharon Milner (University of Ulster) and Helen Stringer (Warwick University).
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Careers education and career-informed degree programmes in higher education
The paper attempts to conceptualise and map ways in which students in higher education might encounter experiences which help them to think about 'career'.It describes the ideathat students might experience 'career-informed degree programes' during their time in higher education. It is hoped that the ideas presented here might serve as a tool to help colleagues think about 'career' in relation to both the curriculum and co-curriculum.
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To discuss further, contact Julia Horn.
Growing Careers Education from the Grassroots: Summaries of the CCMS Fellowships
Details of over 15 CCMS funded curriculum develop projects connected with careers education at Reading and other universities. Many of the projects entail use of Destinations®. Case studies identify aspects that worked well, challenges faced and main lessons learnt. Contact information is provided and further free materials are listed where available.
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To discuss further, contact David Stanbury.
Student Orientation to Study and Career: Are student values at odds with university expectations?
Paper presented at the Society for Research in Higher Education annual conference 2008.
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To discuss further, contact Maura O'Regan.
If you are unable to download the above documents, please e-mail us at ccms@reading.ac.uk
Values at Work in Careers Education
Paper presented at the Society for Research in Higher Education annual conference 2008.
A qualitative research project conducted by the Centre for Career Management Skills (CCMS) used semi-structured confidential interviews with sixteen careers educators (academics, careers advisers or others) at seven institutions to explore careers education practices and values.
This paper sets out a typology of five approaches to careers education, derived from the interview data, which demonstrate how a range of ethical, personal, social and educational values play a role in the creation of modules and their evolution over time. It will also examine how these values interact with pedagogic and assessment methods, and how the involvement of educators from different backgrounds can enable curriculum innovation.
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To discuss further, contact Julia Horn.
Writing for an Online Audience
Many careers advisers and information officers are finding that they are writing regularly online, and are developing their own expertise "on the job". Over the past four years the Centre for Career Management Skills (CCMS) at the University of Reading has developed two nationally recognised online career learning resources in Destinations® and Beyond the PhD, and is now working on a third, currently titled Student Stories.
The workshop:
- explored the learning experiences of CCMS in writing for our online audiences in these resources.
- highlighted some of the "good practice" that we have established for our own work
- shared some of the challenges that we have faced; and
- encouraged participants to reflect on the particular needs of their own online audiences
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Which way is forward? Images, Ideas, Realities, and the uses of Career Metaphor
This paper authored by Bill Law and David Stanbury, explores the potential for metaphors to illuminate thinking about career. The article looks at the ways that metaphors work, describes two overarching metaphors for career - career as a journey and career as a race - and discusses some informal research which suggests that different groups of people (academics, careers advisors and students) might tend to use different sorts of metaphors to orientate themselves to career learning.
The article can be downloaded from the Career-Learning Café website (http://www.hihohiho.com/ ) at: http://www.hihohiho.com/magazine/mkngtwork/cafimages.pdf
Up front with careers theory
CCMS funded a research project at Oxford University, to discover whether raising 'career theory' in careers interviews with students could be valuable. Angus McKendrick, Careers Adviser at Oxford University who initiated and run the project said "This might seem a crazy idea but my hunch was that sharing with our clients some of the theories we as carreers professionals are familiar with might actually help clients make successful transitions. Before these careers interviews, I asked students to read a four-page handout, which briefly discusses differentialist, developmental, structural and happenstance theories".
If you would like to receive a pdf copy of the handout given to students please contact Mia Maniraj .
The Employer Engagement Toolkit: engaging employers to enhance teaching and learning
This toolkit has been developed by CCMS to provide ideas and approaches for work related and placement learning. It has been well evidenced that work related learning and employer contact brings a range of benefits to students. The challenge is how to provide opportunities for work related learning and employer contact in ways which integrate and complement the curriculum, engage and develop the students and benefit the employer involved. Help is now at hand in the form of this Toolkit!
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International Careers Studies Symposium Edition of NICEC Journal
This special conference edition of the NICEC Journal, edited by Phil McCash, captures some of the key contributions to CCMS’s International Career Studies Symposium that was held at the University of Reading in September 2009.
NICEC Journal: Symposium edition 2010
Using concept mapping to develop a career studies curriculum