by Eva Gross | Jun 11, 2026 | Careers
From Advice to Discovery: Why Careers Guidance in Schools Needs Reinventing How a broken system is failing young people — and what a new model of career discovery could do about it “The reason we don’t have enough engineers in the country is because no-one knows what...
by Chris Tholstrup | Jun 11, 2026 | Careers
The recent Young People and Work: Interim Report (“YPW Report”) paints a worrying picture of how the education, health, and government systems as well as the job market are failing our young people. Nearly one million young people 16 to 24 in the UK are NEET (Not In...
by Eva Gross | May 12, 2026 | Careers
New Platform Launches to Reimagine Careers Education for the 21st Century For all the talk of preparing young people for the future, most are still leaving school with little understanding of the working world they are about to enter. They are expected to choose...
by Peter Cayless | Jan 13, 2026 | Careers
Not too long ago, Dave Trott, an advertising and marketing guru, wrote a blog about the dangers of conventional wisdom. He used the Wright Brothers as his example and it struck a chord. For centuries, he wrote, man tried to fly and failed. Man tried all sorts of...
by Alan Joenn | Oct 12, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Careers
There is so much discussion and opinion surrounding Generative AI & Agentic AI as topics, and ChatGPT in particular, that it’s sometimes difficult to know what to believe. One thing for sure is that this amazing technology is the focus of everyone’s attention,...
by Steve Carrigan | Feb 1, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Careers, Education
I recently came across a new ‘chatbot’ model that interacts with a user in a conversational way. For the uninitiated, a ‘chatbot’ is a software application used to conduct an on-line chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact...
by Steve Carrigan | Nov 28, 2024 | Careers, Education
Everywhere we look, it seems that many young people are “paralysed” by anxiety and fearful of their future. With the current economic crisis, the aftermath of Covid, and the prevailing political uncertainty and tensions, both here and abroad, this...
by Steve Carrigan | Oct 22, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Careers, Education
In a move that threatens to challenge the established model espoused by the country’s universities, Multiverse, the education start-up, has recently been given the power to award degrees to apprenticeships in subjects such as technology and data science, as reported...
by Eva Gross | Apr 18, 2024 | Careers
Working Eye interview, conducted by IBM When and how did you choose your career? Did you ever doubt whether you’d selected the right path? “I’ve raised four children and guided each of them through subject selection at school, as well as further education, and job...
by Peter Cayless | Feb 3, 2022 | Careers
For the last two years, employers have grappled with a shrinking talent pool, exacerbated by the pandemic and the consequent reassessment amongst employees of their work priorities, ambitions and values. Not only will organisations need to focus on attracting and...
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