6th February
narrative-based websites
find labour-market experience - in narrative form - consider what it can and can't do - see how storyboarding develops what it does best - and what labour-market information can't do

4th February
storyboarding - the overview
a narrative technique for students and clients to use in finding out what's going on - and working out 'what I can do about it?' - find the overview and see what's available and now and on its way

10th October
re-thinking leadership - less urging 'wherefore!' - more explaining 'why?'
we are over-loaded with directives and under-supplied with explanations - we have the evidence, but it has been neglected - it needs a broader framework - useful to both research & development - community-interaction theory does this for social communities - it must now do it for virtual communities - hope needs this kind of reform - but not for how leaders reform us, for how we reform leaders

25th September
community interaction - and its importance for contemporary careers work
how people work with, for, and in response to other people - career is not managed in a social vacuum - community influence is informal - but its effects are radical - this is a reprint of Bill’s original community-interaction article - with a new commentary - because, these days, we also work with virtual communities

21st September
images, ideas, realities - and the uses of career metaphors
examines branding, its impact on research and its consequences for our inventiveness - the two most persistent metaphors for career are positioning as though in a race, and travelling as though on a journey - such images frame our thinking, shape our programmes - and either expand or limit our horizons

recent
a fair chance in life
a new cabinet-office report, commissioned by Gordon Brown, sets out the unfairness in Britain’s opportunity structure - we have a natural interest - but, if we are serious about this, we must re-think the models we use - this article examines why, how the report helps, and what you can do about it

low-carbon careers
suppose impartial information is not that impartial - urgently needing its perspectives reframed? - how could that make your programmes more credible? - a review of Ken Webster's Sense and Sustainability - an important new book signposting much of what we now need most urgently to build into our work.

careers-work crunch
we are well placed to enable people to deal with the uncertainties of crunch economics - but we need to expand our expertise - & this is the biggest challenge to our creativity we've ever faced - way beyond current thinking & practice

relocating careers work in curriculum
there was never a time when people needed more to know what is going on in working life, and to work out what to do about it - it means self-propelled learning through finding out, sorting out and checking out - and working out what to do for a fulfilling and sustainable life - tick-box methods and cut-and-paste learning can’t do this - so what can?

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check out long-standing resources

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review recent uploads

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5th February
why do we need managers?

6th November
the café & its
priorities for careers work

2nd November
ppts for KPCGroep's Oss conference:
key note: 'images, ideas & action'
workshop: 'storyboarding'

20th October
career guidance past its sell-by date?
Bill says 'yes'
Rachel Mulvey says 'no'

5th October
using lmi - getting down to detail
a framework for embedding the work of the Northants Connexions' creative team

17th September
careers talk on the net
four short films of Bill examining
issues for the future of careers work

6th September
CPI at AGCAS
handout for the AGCAS Biennial Conference - on the coverage-processes-influences model

Bill's contribution to the debate on
the future of curriculum
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