The Career Development Professional’s Survival Guide
Trotman (Verlag)
978-1-911724-67-4 (ISBN)
Dr Oliver Jenkin PGCE RCDP, NICEC Fellow. CDI Senior Professional Development and Standards Manager, and Editor of the CDI’s magazine, Career Matters
A practical, accessible and informative guide, aimed at both the newly qualified Career Development Professional wandering out into the wilds of the careers sphere, as well as the more experienced practitioner looking to change roles, improve their practice or pick up some top tips to make working life easier.
Expert authors, Jules Benton and Chris Targett, help practitioners navigate the realities of their job, providing practical guidance and offering steady reassurance. Drawing on real world examples from their own extensive experience, the authors equip CDPs with the life hacks they need to excel in any situation, whatever the setting.
This practical handbook offers:
Real-Life examples: Practical strategies and techniques drawn from real experiences to help CDPs transform their practice.
Accessible format: An A to Z of career development, including entries as wide-ranging as curiosity, difficult conversations, equality and equity, humour, learning styles, opportunities, play, reflection and visibility.
User-friendly content: Written in a clear, accessible format and illustrated throughout to support different ways of learning.
With a focus on continuous improvement and reflective practice, The Career Development Professional’s Survival Guide helps practitioners to develop safe, effective and inclusive ways of working to become the outstanding professionals their clients deserve and need.
Jules Benton has over 35 years’ experience working as a careers guidance professional, trainer and consultant. She specialises in careers guidance for individuals who are disabled, have learning support needs or experience other barriers to inclusion. Chris Targett is a dynamic and innovative careers adviser who received the CDI’s ‘UK Careers Adviser of the Year’ Award in 2021. His background in art and philosophy informs his creative approach, supporting young people, schools and colleagues across the guidance community.
A big hello
Alphabet soup - an abundance of abbreviations or acronyms
Beginnings - things to consider when starting in a new role, a different setting or a new job
Body Doubling - a technique where you work alongside another person, either physically or virtually, to enhance focus and motivation
Continuous Professional Development - occupational and educational knowledge
Communication - The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place ~George Bernard Shaw
Complaints – don’t panic! Listen and learn
Curiosity - Indulge your own curiosity by finding out how others work
Decisions – what affects decision making
Designing your day - some of the ways you can structure a day’s careers interactions
Difficult Conversations - Careers work doesn’t really matter or isn’t important; You must do shorter career sessions; You need to fill up our 6th Form/College; There’s no point in “inclusive approaches”; You can’t have a room; Clients who say “I don’t know”
Disabled? – you have rights
Disclosure and Barring – what the different kinds of checks are, and who needs them
Emails – top tips for helping to ensure that emails don’t clog up your life
Equality and equity – what they mean and why they matter
Ethics - Ethical use of different social media and technology platforms; Unethical Practice; Agendafication
Everyone has a right to Career Guidance – just saying!
Find your Tribe – why we need our own circles of support
Future gazing – what will happen next in the Careers Sphere?
Going places – things to remember the first time you go to a setting
Have a go! – how Chris and Jules got over their own anxieties and learnt to embrace things outside their comfort zones
Humour – when is a joke not a joke?
Information sharing – what should we share, and how?
Just One Thing – why doing ‘just one thing’ can be so powerful
Kindness - ways of being, which we can consider to improve our lot
Learning Styles – are they a myth?
Looking after the planet – musings on sustainable practice
Magic – why Terry Pratchett could have been writing about us
Mistakes – what we’ve learnt from ours
No such thing as a silly question – a bit about different kinds of questions and how they can be used
Opportunities - activities which promote the development of self-awareness; various ways of researching opportunities
Personalising Action Plans – what is the purpose of our action plans?
Philosophy – a romp through some thinkers
Play – why is it important?
Quick or slow – how to slow down … or stop
Realism – mental capacity and ‘unwise’ choices
Reflection – how and why to reflect on your work
Refreshments – the art and etiquette of food and drink
Sick and Tired - is a change as good as a rest?
Staying Safe – a few thoughts on how and why this is so important
Social Media – for business, for/with clients, for ourselves and for CPD
Transitions - techniques which support our clients to ‘move’
Unconditional Positive Regard – what to do when accepting and respecting others as they are gets hard
Visibility - why should we make ourselves ‘seen’
What should I wear? – some personal musings on dress codes and appearance
X-rated - Sometimes clients talk about inappropriate things!
YET – the power of yet and growth mindset
Zero Tolerance? - if a client is unaware they are doing something wrong [and it is not harmful, or an immediate threat] should we adopt a policy of zero-tolerance?
Zenith - ‘the time at which something is most powerful or successful’ – what we might call Impact!
Zone - ‘a region or area set off as distinct from surrounding or adjoining parts’.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.11.2025 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-911724-67-3 / 1911724673 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-911724-67-4 / 9781911724674 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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