The Career Development Professional’s Survival Guide: Hardback Edition
The Career Development Professional’s Survival Guide: Hardback Edition
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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.
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Measurements:
Height 240 mm
Width 170 mm
Pages 180
Key Reviews
"Michael Larbelestier’s and Marianne Wilson’s AI Toolkit for Careers Practitioners ... meets a definite need in the profession.
From the outset, the authors acknowledge that readers will approach this book with different levels of familiarity with AI, as well as different practical needs. Neither an ‘AI for beginners’ manual, nor a dense academic treatise, this book takes a different approach, equipping the reader with the knowledge and skills to use AI skilfully and effectively. Starting with a general introduction (that includes some much-needed myth busting), the authors move on to the wider social and ethical implications of this technology, and its implications for career development work. Detailed practical examples of how AI might be used in practice ground the book in the ‘coalface’ of practice, while the final section of the book offers welcome definitions of the myriad technical terms that inevitably form part of this subject.
This book is, as its title says, a ‘toolkit’. By adopting the approach of providing the reader with a ‘compass’ (to use the authors’ own metaphor), rather than a ‘map’, this volume will, I think, remain relevant and vital for many years, despite the dynamic and fast-changing nature of its subject. I cannot recommend it highly enough."
From the foreword to the book
Dr Oliver Jenkin PGCE RCDP, NICEC Fellow
CDI Senior Professional Development and Standards Manager, and Editor of the CDI’s magazine, Career Matters
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Meet the Authors
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Chris Targett
Learn moreChris Targett is well known in the careers education community as a dynamic and innovative careers adviser. He was awarded the prestigious ‘UK Careers Adviser of the Year’ Award by the Career Development Institute (CDI) in 2021.
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Jules Benton
Learn moreJules Benton has over 35 years’ experience working as a careers guidance professional, trainer and consultant. She specialises in delivering training on careers education for individuals with impairments, health conditions or special educational needs or disabilities (SEND).
