The Seven Cs of Digital Career Literacy

www.derby.ac.uk/icegsTristram Hooley

The seven Cs of digital career literacy

The career management skills we need for the wired world

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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.

(Hooley, 2012)

Why career management skills?

Career management skills (CMS) describe the skills, attributes and abilities that individuals need to pursue their careers.

They can be used to refocus practice towards a learning focused model of career development.

There are various pre-existing models of career management skills (most notably the Blueprint models).

(Hooley et al., 2013)


Why a digital CMS framework

The internet changes the context for career. Careers practitioners are frequently unclear as to how this

changed context should change what they do. The internet increases the capability of individuals to self-

serve and seek career support. None of the existing CMS frameworks fully attend to the

context of the internet.

Most of all – because individuals are seeking help with these issues and getting them wrong.




How is it derived

Reflection on my practice Discussion with other practitioners and observation of what

career services are doing in this area Synthesis of existing frameworks

Career management skills Information literacy Digital literacy

It is still a work in progress

(Hooley, 2012; Longridge et al., 2013)


Curating

Creating

Communicating Connecting

Critiquing

Collecting

Changing

The 7 C’s of digital

career literacy

1. Changing


2. Collecting


3. Critiquing



4. Connecting


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

6. Creating


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7. Curating


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 Cs provide a framework that career professionals

can use to work with clients.


Bibliography

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.

Hooley, T., Watts, A. G., Sultana, R. G., & Neary, S. (2013). The 'blueprint' framework for career management skills: a critical exploration. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 41 (2), 117-131.

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.

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.

Longridge, D., Hooley, T. & Staunton, T. (2013). Building online employability: A guide for academics. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby.



Tristram Hooley

Reader in Career Development

International Centre for Guidance Studies

University of Derby

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

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