The Blueprint for Careers: supporting employability and career learning in organisations

[Background] [Target Audience] [Training Aim] [Objectives] [Programme Outline] [Event Information] [Application Conditions]

Background

The second decade of the 21st century presents a changing and fragmented labour market where there is limited funding for learning, less employer support for career development and less career support for young people and adults.  Individuals are now faced with many transition points and need to recognise the transferable skills they have or require to enable these transitions.  Additionally, individuals need the competence to manage their careers thus enhancing both organisational improvement as well as individual fulfilment. 

The Blueprint for Careers for England is a framework which can be used to help one manage and direct one's career at any age or stage of life.  It has been developed by LSIS (the Learning and Skills Improvement Service), building on good practice in an international context. It sets out an approach to the management of life, learning and work that will support individuals to make the most of their opportunities and deal with the challenges of the 21^st century as well as help enhance organisational capacity development and organisational professional development.

A career is defined as the combination and sequence of roles played by a person during the course of a lifetime (Super, 1980).  Career development is a lifelong process that influences all aspects of a person's life, particularly knowledge, skills and attitudes.  Most importantly, the process encompasses developing relevant skills for work as well as personal life.

“The focus of the Blueprint is on realising the potential of people in a way that is sustained and progressive across their journey through life. It is designed to be used in formal or informal learning, in employment and in any other place where people seek to develop their skills and careers. This lifelong focus is important as people’s ability to manage their careers can help them in making transitions between various life roles and so can support both social inclusion and social mobility.”

(A Guide to the Blueprint for Careers and its implementation, LSIS, 2012)

NIACE is working in partnership with LSIS to introduce the Blueprint for Careers (England) and its uses. The training day comprises introduction to the Employability Wheel, its application, the critical factors for success, the competencies and the impact on the learner, the employer and provider. 

Participants who have attended the training in 2013 told us:

Can actively apply model to my own context

Useful to learners and relevant to the courses we deliver

Very knowledgeable [trainer]

Good model .. lots of potential creativity

Very informative, resources which I will be able to use with my learners

Would grade session as outstanding grade 1 ...clear objectives and outcomes

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Target Audience

The training is relevant to:

• Careers companies
• Community learning organisations
• Further Education & sixth form colleges
• Homeless and Housing Organisations
• HR staff
• Jobcentre Plus
• Local Education Authorities
• Mentors and coaches in the workplace
• Neighbourhood renewal projects
• Open and Distance Learning Providers
• Organisations supporting apprentices
• Prison and Probation Services
• Private providers of career guidance services
• Professional associations
• Recruitment agencies
• The National Careers Service
• Trade Unions
• Training organisations
• Universities
• Voluntary organisations
• Work-based learning providers

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Training Aim

To introduce the Blueprint for Careers (England) and its uses

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Objectives

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Identify the support and skills needed to manage careers throughout life
• Explain what the Blueprint for Careers is
• Understand how the Blueprint can support career and employability skills
• Relate it to their own working context and enhancement of organisational capacity
• Identify how they might use it for themselves as individuals

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Programme Outline

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Event Information

Arrival and registration is at 9.30am for a 10:00am start. The event will end at 3:45pm

Event fee per person: £160 (NIACE members rate)
Event fee per person: £175 (Non NIACE members rate)
(includes sandwich lunch, tea/coffee)

NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference or course fees.

Only online application forms with the payments section completed will be processed.

NB: If you wish us to invoice your employer we require a copy of the Purchase Order before the form is processed.

Places will be allocated in order of receipt of completed applications (one online application per person)

Participants should be prepared to take their own notes as there may not be handouts for all sessions

If you have not received an e-mail confirming your attendance and joining instructions 4 working days before the event please contact: events@niace.org.uk

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Application Conditions

Event: Thursday 23 May 2013
Closing Date: Tuesday 7 May 2013

The full fee is payable prior to the event

Substitutions are to be advised 5 working days prior to the event

Cancellations are non-refundable

A 15 working days notice period is required for provision of electronic note-takers, sign language interpreters and transcription to Braille

Places are to be reserved online – scroll up and click on Apply Now