The Career Development Professional's Survival Guide Resources

Name: The Career Development Professional’s Survival Guide
Brand: Jules Benton & Chris Targett
SKU: 9781911724674
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Welcome to 'The Zone', a space where you can dive deeper into the insights shared in The Career Development Professional's Survival Guide. Here you will find a curated list of valuable websites, resources and videos from authors Jules Benton and Chris Targett.

This page contains helpful explainers and handpicked links to support your exploration of the topics that caught your interest in the book. Simply choose a topic from the list below and start exploring!

The Zone

AI in the context of career guidance

AI and Career Guidance: Beyond the Buzzwords

AI and the Future of Careers Provisions: What's Next

Alphabet soup

Job-seeking terms, words and abbreviations

List of common business acronyms and their meanings

AAC: Augmentative and alternative communication

ABI: Acquired Brain Injury

ADD, ADHD and AuDHD: Attention Deficit Disorder; Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder; AuDHD- an unofficial but popular term to describe individuals who are both autistic and have ADHD.

ADL: Activities of daily living

AEN: Additional Education Needs

AGCAS: Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services

ALN: Additional Learning Needs (Wales)

ALNCo: Additional Learning Needs Coordinator (Wales)

AP: Alternative provision

APD: Auditory Processing Disorder

ASC and ASD: Autistic Spectrum Condition (used currently): Autistic Spectrum Disorder (medical terminology used for describing autism).

ASL: Additional Support for Learning (Scotland)

B2B: Business to Business

B2C: Business to Consumer

BSL: British Sign Language

CAMHS: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

CDI: Career Development Institute

CDP: Career Development Professional

CEC: Careers Enterprise Company

CEIAG and IAG: Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance; Information, Advice and Guidance.

CEO: Chief Executive Officer

CFO: Chief Financial Officer

CHC: Continuing Healthcare

COO: Chief Operating Officer

CP: Cerebral Palsy

CQC: Care Quality Commission

CSW: Communication support worker

CSP: Coordinated Support Plan (Scotland)

DCD: Developmental Coordination Disorder – also known as dyspraxia.

DE: Department of Education (Northern Ireland)

DE&I: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

DfE: Department for Education (England)

DfES: Department for Education and Skills (Wales)

DLA: Disability Living Allowance (England, Northern Ireland and Wales) – a benefit for disabled children and young people up to the age of 16.

DP: Direct Payment – a payment made directly to a parent or young person to purchase specific services.

DST: Decision Support Tool – the form that is used by the health worker who does the assessment to see if a person is eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare.

EHCP: Education, Health and Care Plan (England)

EP: Educational psychologist

ESFA: Education and Skills Funding Agency (England)

FASD: Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder

FTE: Full-Time Equivalent

HI: Hearing Impairment

HR: Human Resources

IDP: Individual Development Plan (Wales)

IEP: Individualised Educational Programme (England and Scotland)

KPI: Key Performance Indicator

LA: Local authority (England, Scotland and Wales)

LAC: Looked After Child – any child who is in the care of the local authority.

LSA: Learning Support Assistant

MCA: Mental Capacity Assessment

MSI: Multi-Sensory Impairment

ND: NeuroDiverse

NICE: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

NICEC: National Institute for Career Education and Counselling

OFSTED: Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills.

PA: Personal Assistant

PD: Physical Disability

PDA: Pathological Demand Avoidance

PEP: Personal Education Plan

PfA: Preparing for Adulthood

PIP: Personal Independence Payment (England, Northern Ireland and Wales) – a benefit paid to disabled adults and young people aged 16 and over.

PRU: Pupil Referral Unit

QA: Quality Assurance

RSD: Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

SAAS: Student Awards Agency Scotland

SaLT: Speech and Language Therapist

SE and SSE: Signed English – an exact representation of English where a sign is used alongside every spoken word, including fingerspelling words which don’t have an equivalent in BSL, such as ‘to’ or ‘the’; Sign Supported English – a way of speaking and signing at the same time, using British Sign Language (BSL) signs for key words while speaking English. SSE signers don’t sign every word.

SENCO: Special Educational Needs Coordinator (England)

SEN/D: Special Educational Needs and/or Disability (England and Northern Ireland)

SENDIASS: Special Education Needs and Disability Information, Advice and Support Service (England)

SHANARRI indicators (Scotland): Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included – a set of eight indicators used to measure a child’s wellbeing as part of Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC).

SI: Supported Internship

SLCN: Speech, Language and Communication Needs

SpLD: Specific Learning Disabilities

TA, HLTA and ATA: Teaching Assistant; Higher Level Teaching Assistant; Academic Teaching Assistant.

TS: Tourette Syndrome

TSI: Training in Systematic Instruction – the system used by Job Coaches is called TSI. A job coach finds out what work involves and then plans ways to help a young person fulfil these tasks. Support is ongoing until the employee has learnt the job.

Assistive tech and text-to-speech apps

How to Find and Enjoy Your Computer’s Accessibility Settings | Microsoft Windows

Get started with accessibility features on Mac – Apple Support (UK)

Making Chromebooks accessible for people with disabilities

Additional resources:

Body doubling

Focusmate

'What is ‘body doubling’ and can it really make you more productive?'

'What's Body Doubling All About?'

Card sorts

A few examples:

Career Development and Inclusive Practice

Career Development and Inclusive Practice, Jules Benton and Chris Targett

Career theories and models

CXK resources

Two examples of ‘inclusive’ resources from CXK:

Disability

Disability Rights UK

Disclosure and barring

England, Northern Ireland and Wales

Through a Registered Body.
The service is free for volunteers.
Guidance about regulated activity with children published by the Department for Education (DfE).
Information about regulated activity with adults is available from the Department of Health (DH).
The DBS eligibility tool can be used to determine what type of check a role could be eligible for, as can the eligibility guidance .
For sole traders- you can use an umbrella body to submit a cheque on your behalf.

Scotland

PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups) scheme for people doing regulated work with children and protected adults.

Discrimination and hate crime

Equality Advisory and Support Service

Report It

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Career Development, Ifza Shakoor

Group guidance and coaching

'Not All Group Work Is Guidance: Why the Difference Matters'

Imposter Syndrome: Self-doubt, confidence and authenticity

Conversations:

Explainers:

Inherent bias in different search tools

'Bias already exists in search engine results, and it's only going to get worse'

'Search Engines May Seem All-Knowing, But They’re Not. Here’s How to Get More Trustworthy Results'

'What are the best private search engines?'

'Trapped in the search box: An examination of algorithmic bias in search engine autocomplete predictions'

Understanding different types of bias- NHS website

Learning styles

'Roundup on Research: The Myth of "Learning Styles"'

'Children have different learning styles'

Quora discussion on teaching in consideration of different learning styles

Mental capacity

A video explaining the Mental Capacity Act in the context of young people.

For more information- Mental Capacity Act 2005 at a glance

Gillick competency and Fraser guidelines

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Here are a couple of examples:

Open Partnership Model (OPM)

Co-authored by Chris with his colleagues at CXK and published in the June 2014 edition of the CDI's magazine, Career Matters. Available digitally for CDI members via the CDI resources online.

Philosophy Corner

There are many different meaningful ways to live. We should reflect on where our own values and judgements land to reduce assumptions which may unduly drive or influence our approaches within careers work.

Use the links below to find out more: