NGRF - UK National Guidance Research Forum

'Who cares about career?': the theme of Career Guidance Week 2007 aims to stimulate a debate on attitudes towards the concept of ‘career’.  As a starter some key challenges to the career guidance world are: 

- Is ‘career’ always to be the property of the socially included?
- More young people are immersed in careers education at school today and it seems that relatively more young graduates are rejecting the traditional graduate career routes and looking for self-fulfilment in ‘wanderlust’.  Are these two trends related?  Is there a dichotomy here?
- How can managers balance the managerial agenda and ethics?
- Does ‘career’ make sense to some older workers having to find ways to keep financially afloat following redundancy or retirement?
- Is managing a career still possible in days of tumultuous change?
- Is there a virtual careers adviser and a virtual career?
- Do guidance practitioners have a career?

To what extent do you agree or disagree with the above and why?  Post your comments below for the opportunity to engage in this important debate and inform the agenda for Guidance Week.  For further information about the event, visit the CeGS website or contact the Centre directly by emailing cegsenquiry@derby.ac.uk