Choice, chance or compulsion: how career advisors are appointed in New Zealand Secondary Schools

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  • Barrie A. Irving

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/reop.vol.22.num.2.2011.60

Keywords:

career, education, schools, recruitment, qualifications

Abstract

Career advisers play an important educational role by enabling students to understand howcareers are constructed and managed in an increasingly uncertain world. Yet how are careeradvisers recruited and what knowledge is required? This article draws from data collectedfrom semi-structured interviews with career advisers in a range of New Zealand secondaryschools as part my PhD research. The findings indicate many of those who became careeradvisers were chosen by someone in authority, or fell into the career adviser role by chance.No knowledge about this curriculum area was necessary, nor formal career-related orteaching qualifications required.

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Irving, B. A. (2011). Choice, chance or compulsion: how career advisors are appointed in New Zealand Secondary Schools. REOP - Revista Española De Orientación Y Psicopedagogía, 22(2), 109–119. https://doi.org/10.5944/reop.vol.22.num.2.2011.60

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Research studies

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