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Career Planning – an essential tool for improving tertiary educational management
G McAuliffeCareer Planning CentreCareer NetWork Rotorua
'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.
Student 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
Completion 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?
Student Retention Programme.
1. Career clarity
2. Relationships
3. Study and self-management skills
Career 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
Non-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
Education 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)
The 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)
The Anxious Seekers
have a low commitment to their current pathway
are typically dissatisfied and could make a complete change at any time
don’t 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)
The 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)
Confident 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)
Careers Industry in New Zealand
CPANZ - Career Practitioners Assoc
CATE – Career & Transition Educators
Qualifications available (AUT, Weltec…)
Careers Industry in New Zealand Careers advisers – provide
general information, liaison & guidance
Rehabilitation - return to work
Professional career counsellors
Careers Industry in New Zealand Career Service rapuara (Govt) Private practice Commercial products (e.g)
FutureSelves New Directions JiigCal Career Quest On-line
Career 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
Tertiary 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
… 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?”
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