1. Building effective career guidance in Saudi Arabia and the gulf states
Lessons from international practice
Tristram Hooley, Professor of Career Education, University of Derby

2. Overview Introductions What is career guidance?
Questions for the session
Understanding your context
Lessons from international practice
Moving forwards

3. Overview Introductions What is career guidance?
Questions for the session
Understanding your context
Lessons from international practice
Moving forwards

4. What country are you from? What organisation are you from?
Who are you?
What country are you from?
What organisation are you from?
What is you role within that organisations?

5. Overview Introductions What is career guidance?
Questions for the session
Understanding your context
Lessons from international practice
Moving forwards

7. OECD definition
Career guidance refers to services and activities intended to assist individuals, of any age and at any point throughout their lives, to make educational, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers…
The activities may take place on an individual or group basis, and may be face-to-face or at a distance (including help lines and web-based services). (OECD, 2004)

8. Lifelong

10. Overview Introductions What is career guidance?
Questions for the session
Understanding your context
Lessons from international practice
Moving forwards

12. Overview Introductions What is career guidance?
Questions for the session
Understanding your context
Lessons from international practice
Moving forwards

13. In your country…
Who is likely to get access to career guidance? (Young people? Working people? Unemployed people etc.)
What is the role of the government in providing career guidance?
What is the role of the private sector in providing career guidance?
Who do you think would benefit from career guidance?
What national objectives does career guidance fit into?

14. Overview Introductions What is career guidance?
Questions for the session
Understanding your context
Lessons from international practice
Moving forwards

16. Recommendations from ICCDPP symposium 2015
Career development systems need to…
attend to both the supply and demand sides of the labor market.
develop career management skills.
reflect labor market realities and prepare people for entrepreneurship and accessing opportunities in the informal economy.
be appropriately resourced if they are going to have impact.

17. Career guidance is most effective where it
Is lifelong and progressive.
Connects meaningfully to the wider experience and lives of the individuals who participate in it.
Recognises the diversity of individuals and provides services relevant to their needs.
Combines a range of interventions (e.g. one-to-one and online support).
Encourages the acquisition of career management skills.
Is holistic and well-integrated into other support services.
Involves employers and working people, and provide active experiences of workplaces.
Is delivered by skilled, well-trained and motivated practitioners.
Draws on good-quality career information.
Is quality-assured and evaluated.

18. The career guidance professional
Career information and assessment expert
Career educator
Social systems developer and intervener
Programme and service manager
Career counsellor

19. Good career guidance in schools (Gatsby)
A stable careers programme
Learning from career and labour market information
Addressing the needs of each pupil
Linking curriculum learning to careers
Encounters with employers and employees
Experienced of workplaces
Encounters with further and higher education
Personal guidance

20. What works in employer engagement

21. Overview Introductions What is career guidance?
Questions for the session
Understanding your context
Lessons from international practice
Moving forwards

22. How will you take this forwards?
What will you do?
Who will you tell?

23. References
Gatsby Charitable Foundation (2014). Good Career Guidance. London: Gatsby.
Hooley, T. (2014). The Evidence Base on Lifelong Guidance. Jyväskylä, Finland: European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN).
OECD. (2004). Career Guidance and Public Policy: Bridging the Gap. Paris: OECD.
Schiersmann, C., Ertelt, B., Katsarov, J., Mulvey, R., Reid, H. and Weber, P. (2012). NICE Handbook for the Academic Training of Career Guidance and Counselling Professionals. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Institute of Education.
The Careers & Enterprise Company. (2016). What Works in Careers and Enterprise? London: The Careers and Enterprise Company.

24. Tristram Hooley Professor of Career Education
International Centre for Guidance Studies
University of Derby
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