The 7Cs of digital career literacy

www.derby.ac.uk/icegsTristram Hooley

Developing digital career literacy through the seven Cs

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Three changes

The internet offers new opportunities to give and receive career support.

The internet changes the context within which career is enacted.

This new context requires new skills for effective career management.


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Approaches to career guidance

Career crisis support

Pre-emptive career support

Career management learning


Career management learning frameworks


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http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/careers/carframe/Pages/stages.aspx





Curating

Creating

Communicating Connecting

Critiquing

Collecting

Changing

The 7 C’s of digital

career literacy

1. Changing


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdvo5FlRqmM



Discuss

What do you do to help students/clients understand and respond to change?

What could you do? An idea: Show the Shift Happens video and discuss what

it means for career.


2. Collecting


Discuss

What do you do to help students/clients to collect useful career information?

What could you do?


An idea


3. Critiquing



Discuss

What do you do to help students/clients to be more critical about the information they encounter?

What could you do?


An idea

Get students to review 10 websites. Tell them to look at

URL Who created the site The date it was last updated

Then them to think about Who paid for the site Why the site was created in the first place


4. Connecting


Discuss

What do you do to help students/clients to network effectively online?

What could you do? An idea: Review their career networks with them. Think

about how to expand them.


5. Communicating


Dear SirI would like to apply for the advertised job.

I believe that I have the necessary skills required for the post and that I would be a great addition to your team.

Yours faithfully

Tristram Hooley

dEr Sir I wud lIk 2 apply 4 d advRtizd job. I BlEv dat I hav d neceSrE skills required 4 d post & dat I wud b a gr8 aDitN 2 yor team. urs faithfullyTristram Hooley

Discuss

What do you do to help students/clients to communicate effectively online?

What could you do? An idea: Get them to write an initial contact to an

employer in a number of different formats (tweet, Linkedin group message, email).


6. Creating


Discuss

What do you do to help students/clients to create useful content for their career?

What could you do? An idea: Encourage them to use a Linkedin profile as the

first step towards creating an online profile.


7. Curating


Discuss

What do you do to help students/clients to curate their online presence?

What could you do? An idea: Get them to Google themselves.


In conclusion

Managing a career requires some skills, attributes and knowledge.

Some of this is the same online as it was before the internet existed (but reframed by the new environment).

Some of it is almost entirely new. The 7 C’s provides a framework that career professionals

can use to work with clients.


For more of my thoughts on this…

Hooley, T. (2012). How the internet changed career: framing the relationship between career development and online technologies. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC). 29.

Longridge, D. & Hooley, T. (2012). An experiment in blended career development: The University of Derby's social media internship programme. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling. 29.

Hooley, T. (2011). Careers work in the blogosphere: Can careers blogging widen access to career support. In: Barham, L. & Irving, B.A. (eds) Constructing the Future: Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice. Stourbridge: Institute of Career Guidance.

Hooley, T., Hutchinson, J. & Watts, A. G. (2010). Enhancing Choice? The Role of Technology in the Career Support Market. London: UKCES.

Hooley, T., Hutchinson, J. & Watts, A.G. (2010). Careering Through The Web. The Potential of Web 2.0 and 3.0 Technologies for Career Development and Career Support Services. London: UKCES.



Tristram Hooley

Reader in Career Development

International Centre for Guidance Studies

University of Derby

http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

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