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The Aims of Career Development Policy: Towards a Comprehensive Framework (2020)
Book Chapter
Robertson, P. J. (2021). The Aims of Career Development Policy: Towards a Comprehensive Framework. In P. J. Robertson, T. Hooley, & P. McCash (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Career Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfor

This chapter explores and questions the aims of public policy for career development. In the early years of the 21st century, an international consensus emerged in the literature describing the intentions of governments when they seek to intervene in... Read More about The Aims of Career Development Policy: Towards a Comprehensive Framework.

Evidence-Based Practice for Career Development (2020)
Book Chapter
Robertson, P. J. (2021). Evidence-Based Practice for Career Development. In P. J. Robertson, T. Hooley, & P. McCash (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Career Development. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190069704.013.26

Evidence is essential to enable practitioners and services to best meet the needs of their service users. The concept of evidence-based practice has been imported to career development, but its implicit medical model is problematic to apply to the so... Read More about Evidence-Based Practice for Career Development.