Title: Career Planning
1Career Planning an essential tool for improving
tertiary educational management
- G McAuliffe
- Career Planning Centre
- Career NetWork
- Rotorua
2'Think Tomorrow, Today
- ATEM conference.
- Tertiary institutions are under pressure to
ensure their sustainability into the future. This
conference focuses on the strategic thinking that
we need to do now to prepare us for tomorrow.
Presenters are invited to share their own
thoughts and the planning and activities taking
place in their institutions.
3Student Retention, Completion Attrition
- Two-thirds of all students fail to complete their
qualifications. - 50 of all students leaving do so in their first
year of study
4Completion rates
- 69 of students that begin Diploma level courses
fail to complete - 62 of Certificate students fail to complete
- 46 of degree level students fail to complete
- Overall there is a 57 non-completion rate
what solutions?
5Student Retention Programme.
- Career clarity
- Relationships
- Study and self-management skills
6Career Clarity
- Confidence that they have made a good choice
- Good understanding of the job market
- Understanding of the relationship between their
studies and their future application - Linking the skills/knowledge taught with the job
7Non-completion not always an issue
- Not all students want a completed Qualification
- Some leave early for employment
- Have personal learning objectives not packaged as
a Credential
8Education Consumers
- The Hopeful Reactors
- The Anxious Seekers
- The Passion Honers
- The Confident Explorers
Vaughan, Roberts and Gardiner (NZCER) Young
People Producing Careers and Identities (2006)
9The Hopeful Reactors
- see a lack of personal options
- have a low sense of career identity
- are typically directed into a pathway by someone
else - tend to hang in even though they are no longer
engaged in the course.
Vaughan, Roberts and Gardiner (NZCER) Young
People Producing Careers and Identities (2006)
10The Anxious Seekers
- have a low commitment to their current pathway
- are typically dissatisfied and could make a
complete change at any time - dont know which way to turn next
- looking for a job title for identity.
Vaughan, Roberts and Gardiner (NZCER) Young
People Producing Careers and Identities (2006)
11The Passion Honers
- happy and committed to a specific vocational
pathway - rather narrow view of career as vocation
- identify with a job title
- Some are beginning to see career options beyond
their current commitment
Vaughan, Roberts and Gardiner (NZCER) Young
People Producing Careers and Identities (2006)
12Confident Explorers
- see a range of options available
- seek challenges
- explore options possibilities - change
- creating an identity though self rather than
vocation - might informally design their own programmes
Vaughan, Roberts and Gardiner (NZCER) Young
People Producing Careers and Identities (2006)
13Careers Industry in New Zealand
- CPANZ - Career Practitioners Assoc
- CATE Career Transition Educators
- Qualifications available (AUT, Weltec)
14Careers Industry in New Zealand
- Careers advisers provide general information,
liaison guidance - Rehabilitation - return to work
- Professional career counsellors
15Careers Industry in New Zealand
- Career Service rapuara (Govt)
- Private practice
- Commercial products (e.g)
- FutureSelves
- New Directions
- JiigCal
- Career Quest
- On-line
16Career NetWork Experience
- Focus students on more appropriate learning
pathways resulting in longer periods of enrolment
- Raise student motivation levels
- Drive greater labour market outcomes
- Allow us to plan and deliver more appropriate
programmes based on the needs of students
flexible learning - Contribute to better management of limited
resources - Gain industry confidence
17Tertiary Career services
- Focus on Graduate employment
- CV writing/Interview skills etc
- Offer range of simple tools at completion point
- Still focus on recruitment
- More qualified staff emerging
18 from university career websites
- Usually students leave the job quest to the last
minute and do it at the worst possible time after
finals. - Enrolling in a course and completing your
degree is the easy bit. Less obvious and easily
overlooked is a crucial research project you need
to complete What I am going to do with my
degree?