Career Planning an essential tool for improving tertiary educational management

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Career Planning an essential tool for improving
tertiary educational management

• G McAuliffe
• Career Planning Centre
• Career NetWork
• Rotorua

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'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.

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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

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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?
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Student Retention Programme.

• Career clarity
• Relationships
• Study and self-management skills

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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

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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

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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)
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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)
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The Anxious Seekers

• have a low commitment to their current pathway
• are typically dissatisfied and could make a
  complete change at any time
• dont 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)
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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)
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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)
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Careers Industry in New Zealand

• CPANZ - Career Practitioners Assoc
• CATE Career Transition Educators
• Qualifications available (AUT, Weltec)

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Careers Industry in New Zealand

• Careers advisers provide general information,
  liaison guidance
• Rehabilitation - return to work
• Professional career counsellors

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Careers Industry in New Zealand

• Career Service rapuara (Govt)
• Private practice
• Commercial products (e.g)
• FutureSelves
• New Directions
• JiigCal
• Career Quest
• On-line

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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

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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

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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?