Browser Toolbar Idea

So I had a mad idea for a techie careers tool after using a charity browser toolbar.   In my head this works amazingly – but what do you think?!

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80% of a graduate job search takes place online, and for many students, will involve relatively little time (if any at all) on a careers service website before following a link to a sector vacancy page, or an employer’s application form. When this occurs, the student becomes cut off from any way to prompt that there might be particular services, events, communities, mentors and resources available to support them, and we from their experience, insight and knowledge….

Are we ‘traditional’ professionals?

One of the reasons that I was keen to study my PGCert in Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance is the feeling that it will give new ‘legitimacy’ to my role. On days when I don’t know the answers and am feeling the pressure, I would have the reassurance of a qualification to prove my value as a ‘professional’.

As part of my PGCert reading I came across The Reflective Practitioner by Donald A. Schon. It was published in 1991, far before the net-connected world of democratised information, collaborative content, and crowd-sourced enquiries. Yet it argues for a change in the ‘mystification’ of what it means to be a professional in a way that I think has fundamentally helped me in the way I work and view my role….