Note my message on the next level up, that this list is now wildly out of date and only usable as a model of how websites might be categorised as contributing to guidance outcomes (using the DOTS model in this case). I have no resources to update the list nor access to the page to take it down,(this also illustrates the need to note the date last reviewed on a web page!) but a related list is also available at www.careersoft.co.uk/mainpage.htm, developed by Careersoft from my original DOTSMARKS list, and aimed at practitioners working with young people. They are now responsible for updating ...

• Posted by Marcus Offer
• Posted: 2004-12-12

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It may be more helpful for practitioners and those beginning research to read accounts that are specific to guidance. There are two main source for this: 1] Higgins, R. & Westergaard, J.(1998):"In Search of Guidance Models for the group context" Occasional Papers in Careers Guidance No 2: a collection of professional papers by the staff of the College of Guidance Studies: Stourbridge, Institute of Careers Guidance 2] Gothard, B., Mignot, P., Offer, M.S., Ruff,M.(2001): "Careers Guidance in Context", Chapter 4: "Group Work: Guidance in a group setting", London, Sage. These two sources...

• Posted by Marcus Offer
• Posted: 2004-12-12

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We are currently working on a future trends sector on 'scientific research' which should address the need for more data in this area. It will not be as comprehensive as some of the sector information online, so if anyone could suggest any sources which would help us build up the information we have it would be appreciated.

• Posted by Sally-Anne Barnes
• Posted: 2004-11-18

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Well I work as a careers adviser for the Royal Society of Chemistry and therefore have an interest in finding out what are seen as trends in this area are. From my work with my client group at the RSC (45,000 members)I know there is a substantial amount of R&D occuring, but it would be interesting to have this quantified in some way so that I and others working with clients in this area (e.g. university careers advisers/high street advisers) have more to go on.

• Posted by Caroline Tolond
• Posted: 2004-11-10

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Might it be helpful to share the thinking behind the initial observation re: an absence in data? This would enable others, like myself and the NLRG team to also feed in ideas.... just a thought.

• Posted by Deirdre Hughes
• Posted: 2004-11-09

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I would like to know if anyone using this site can provide me with examples of strategies, tools and techniques they are currently using to assess the impact of guidance?

• Posted by Deirdre Hughes
• Posted: 2004-11-09

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For information on occupational areas and the issues facing the Scottish economy try the FutureSkills Scotland web site link through the Careers Scotland web site: www.careers-scotland.org.uk. Janet Moffett University of Paisley

• Posted by Ann Ruthven
• Posted: 2004-10-07

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Users might already be familiar with the Skill Website www.skill.org.uk - a link is included in the resources list above. However, it might be helpful to know that the site includes a range of information booklets for disabled students, trainees and jobseekers, including one on the topic on whether or not, how and when to disclose any disability to a potential employer. I found these to be a useful resource for Careers Advisers too, as it isn't an area in which I feel especially confident giving advice. Elsewhere on the site are some student case studies where individuals talk about their...

• Posted by Lucy Marris
• Posted: 2004-09-30

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Users of this part of the site might also be interested in this website which was developed by the Careers and Student Employment section of the University of Westminster. I think its of particular interest because it includes along with the 'usual suspects' women, mature students, students with disabilities and so on, a section on class issues and students with previous convictions. It is aimed at students themselves, rather than a practitioner resource, but I think there is much to be learned from it. Have any other users come across similarly innovative websites dealing with equal opport...

• Posted by Lucy Marris
• Posted: 2004-09-20

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Scientific research is not included in any of the LMI sectors. We tried to follow sectors which, for the most part, had a sector skills council. Although scientific research is included in the SEMTA remit there is no specific data available. Scientific occupations comes under ‘Professional Services – research and development’ in the Working Futures sectoral report (2004). We will certainly try to get some information on scientific research included if time and funding allow!

• Posted by Sally-Anne Barnes
• Posted: 2004-09-16

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I'm suprised at the lack of a catagory on scientific research in the LMI trends - can anyone explain its absence? I'm not sure that it fits into any of those already posted.

• Posted by Caroline Tolond
• Posted: 2004-09-15

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Wider discussion is invited on the author’s observations that: there is suspicion of why data on impact is being collected evidence is seen as something to be manipulated such imposed activities take time and resources away from the real work which needs to be done.

• Posted by Alan Brown
• Posted: 2004-09-02

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This was an observation made by a participant in a discussion during the developmental stage of this website. I decided to venture outside of guidance to a sector where there is many a common thread and shared ambition, and a shared experience of restructure and new funding models. Having stepped out of the comfort zone-the guidance community, I was pleasantly surprised by what I found. Indeed I was inspired by a community where the value for money debate is raging but there is very commitment to developing a toolkit, with adverse range of tools to provide clear evidence of benefits. There ...

• Posted by Lucy Marris
• Posted: 2004-09-02

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This is a contribution made by an participant in discussions during the development of the website The challenges and complexities facing the guidance community in trying to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of guidance are not unique. Other disciplines involving human interaction, such as medicine and social welfare, face similar challenges and difficulties in evaluating the effectiveness of practice. For example, when a patient "gets better" following treatment, how do we know he/she wouldn't have recovered any way, by a process of self-healing; and if "getting better" really was lin...

• Posted by Lucy Marris
• Posted: 2004-09-02

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There are options: 1) we could bemoan the lack of opportunity to use our skills, but move across to delivering the kind of repetitive information giving or information eliciting work that is out there and be grateful no one has noticed that you don't need to be a careers adviser to do it. Thus we hang on to our professional salary and status. 2) We could admit that guidance skills aren't required for every interaction and so concede there isn't a need for career guidance professionals for much of the time, admit that the profession is under attack and being eroded and walk away or 3)We coul...

• Posted by Lucy Marris
• Posted: 2004-09-02

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