Opportunities and risks in the use of AI in career development practice
Journal Article
Wilson, M., Robertson, P., Cruickshank, P., & Gkatzia, D. (2022)
Opportunities and risks in the use of AI in career development practice. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 48(1), 48-57. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4807
The Covid-19 pandemic required many aspects of life to move online. This accelerated a broader trend for increasing use of ICT and AI, with implications for both the world of ...
The collaborative use of career information by young people and career advisers: A thematic content analysis of career counselling records
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Milosheva, M., Robertson, P., Cruickshank, P., & Hall, H. (2024)
The collaborative use of career information by young people and career advisers: A thematic content analysis of career counselling records. Australian Journal of Career Development, 33(1), 72-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162241232267
This study explores the career information-seeking behaviours of young people and career advisers. These are examined through the interrogation of a secondary data set held by...
The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective
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Mowbray, J., Hall, H., Raeside, R., & Robertson, P. (2017)
The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective. Information Research, 22(1),
Introduction. The paper presents a critical analysis of the extant literature pertaining to the networking behaviour of young jobseekers in both offline and online environment...
A capability approach to career development: An introduction and implications for practice
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Robertson, P. J., & Egdell, V. (2018)
A capability approach to career development: An introduction and implications for practice. Australian Journal of Career Development, 27(3), 119-126. https://doi.org/10.1177/1038416217704449
In the UK, the concept of employability is influential in current conceptualizations of career development. It is an example of a discourse underpinned by faith in individual ...
The role of information in career development
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Milosheva, M., Robertson, P., Cruickshank, P., & Hall, H. (2021)
The role of information in career development. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 47(1), 12-20. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4703
The role of information in career development has received relatively little research attention. A literature review completed as part of a doctorate in the first half of 2021...
Capturing career information use in everyday life: introducing the CIEL conceptual framework
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Milosheva, M., Hall, H., Robertson, P., & Cruickshank, P. (2022)
Capturing career information use in everyday life: introducing the CIEL conceptual framework. Information Research, 27, https://doi.org/10.47989/irisic2217
Introduction. Everyday career information use is not fully addressed by extant theories, models, and frameworks. In this paper, a conceptual framework of career information be...
Job search information behaviours: An ego-net study of networking amongst young job-seekers
Journal Article
Mowbray, J., Hall, H., Raeside, R., & Robertson, P. J. (2018)
Job search information behaviours: An ego-net study of networking amongst young job-seekers. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 50(3), (239-253). ISSN 0961-0006
Networking is considered an integral feature of job search, yet its behavioural manifestation has received little attention in the extant literature. Here this is addressed in...
Updating Qualifications for the Career Guidance Profession in Scotland: Navigating the Maze
Journal Article
Allan, G., Moffett, J., & Robertson, P. J. (2013)
Updating Qualifications for the Career Guidance Profession in Scotland: Navigating the Maze. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 1(2), https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v1i2.62
This paper describes work in progress to modernise the initial training arrangements for the career guidance profession in Scotland. In a process initiated by the University o...
Career-first: an approach to sustainable labour market integration
Journal Article
Fuertes, V., McQuaid, R., & Robertson, P. J. (2021)
Career-first: an approach to sustainable labour market integration. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 21, 429-446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-020-09451-2
Active labour market policies aim at supporting people entering and, importantly, remaining in the labour market. Initiatives to this end have often been characterised by a mi...
An introduction to the special section on the Capability Approach to career guidance
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J., & Picard, F. (2021)
An introduction to the special section on the Capability Approach to career guidance. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 21(2), 395-404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-021-09462-7
This editorial introduces readers to the Capability Approach to career guidance. It outlines the origins of the approach in the work of economist Amartya Sen, and explains som...