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For your eyes only?
Why careers information teams need
to demonstrate professionalism
Megan Wiley
Information Specialist
Careers Service, University of Bristol
New Professionals Conference 2011
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Overview
• My perspective: why this topic?
• Background: careers services
information roles
• Issues for careers information staff
• Professional qualifications + CILIP
• Communicating with colleagues
• Relevance beyond careers services
4. What do higher education (HE)
careers services do?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncut/16926192
5. Association of Graduate Careers
Advisory Services (AGCAS)
• 132 higher education careers service members
• Over 2,250 individual members
• Careers and employability education, information, advice and
guidance (CEIAG)
• Careers Information Specialists Group (CISG)
• AGCAS-CIO@jiscmail.ac.uk
6. What do information staff do?
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3771026/Careers_information_job_titles
7. Frontline work
Library Management System
Physical stock
Cross-team working
Employers
Careers Advisers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzzcat/32133928/
11. How relevant is a professional
qualification?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/annarbor/4350629792
12. Why pay a professional?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blatantnews/4013275725/
13. Keeping in touch with colleagues
http://www.flickr.com/photos/idogcow/391609724/
14. What
works?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikee032901/2306216747/
15. is invisible?
information work
Lots of
Relevance to other
information
services
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/2170308755/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barbmcmahon/3625631907/
16. Get in touch
megan.wiley@bristol.ac.uk
twitter.com/wiley9000
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizjones/365098269/