International lessons on how schools can best equip students for their working lives
May 31 - June 2 2023 – Virtual conference
Below you can find presentation videos and PowerPoint presentations from our 2023 conference, "Disrupted Futures: International lessons on how schools can best equip students for their working lives". The main topic of the conference was looking how career guidance can best respond to social inequalities and optimise the use of digital technologies in delivery. During the conference, there were presentations of 43 papers from policy, practice and research working in 17 countries.
Full conference programme with abstracts
Summarised conference programme
Young people are entering the labour market more educated and with greater ambition than any previous generation, but in many countries, they still struggle to find good employment. Societies turn to career guidance systems to help students plan effectively for their futures, but historically policy and practice in guidance has been undermined by a lack of scientific evidence. The OECD's review of longitudinal datasets in ten countries provides new confidence about the long-term impacts of school career guidance on adult employment outcomes. The study evidences which career development activities can most confidently be expected to support teenage students in finding more satisfying, better-paying employment in adulthood. These Career Readiness Indicators link how young people explore, experience and think about potential futures in work.
In order to support the continued improvement of the evidence base and identification of connected effective practice and policy, the OECD encouraged policymakers, practitioners and scholars to share their work on the career development of children and young people at the 2023 OECD Disrupted Futures Conference.
The conference will include papers on wide aspects of career development with particular presentations looking at how to address inequalities and stereotypes and how digital technologies can be optimised for the delivery of career guidance (including case studies from the new OECD Observatory on Digital Technologies in Career Guidance for Youth (ODiCY).
Opening plenary session: How career guidance can best respond to social inequalities: new OECD analysis and guidance
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Evidence-driven practice in career guidance
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Challenging stereotypes in construction careers
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Understanding impact through quantitative analysis
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Delivering effective career guidance
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Challenging inequalities
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Enabling transitions
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Career pathway programmes
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Challenging inequalities through career guidance analyses
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Enhancing guidance through digital technologies- Session 1
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Career management skills
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Enhancing guidance through digital technologies- Session 2
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Work experience placements
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Enabling effective transitions for all youth
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Career guidance for students with disabilities & enabling well-being
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Closing plenary session: From research to practice: how New Brunswick is integrating insights from longitudinal analysis into K-12 career development
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Opening plenary session: How career guidance can best respond to social inequalities: new OECD analysis and guidance
During the opening plenary session of Disrupted Futures 2023, there is a presentation and discussion of new OECD analysis within a forthcoming working paper on how career guidance systems can best respond to social inequalities. New analysis of PIAAC data shows that the early labour market experiences of young people are heavily shaped by their socio-economic status, gender and migrant/ethnic background. Even when comparing similarly educated people, these characteristics are often related to worse outcomes than other groups. Moreover, analysis of PISA data shows that the engagement of teenagers in career development activities is often shaped by such characteristics. In this session, the new analysis will be presented alongside a discussion of how to make sense of such findings and their practical implications for guidance systems. Three guest contributors will share practical insights from their work linked to how public fundings can respond to additional student needs and how students can be prepared to cope with labour markets that are shaped by gender and ethnic inequalities.
Panelists: David Blustein (Boston College Chair) |
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Year 10 Multi-Engagement Career Readiness Program
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What we are learning from multi-stakeholder approaches to foster students' career readiness: Teach for All's Future of Work InitiativePresenters: Tarek Chehidi, Mariana Franco & Banalata Sen |
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High school learners' perceptions of careers in the built environment sector
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Constructing women: Investigating the influences on career development educators when advising young women on construction trades - New ZealandPresenters: Kylie Taffard |
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Career Design Under the Effect of School and Student Socioeconomic Status: A Global Interaction Analysis - TürkiyePresenters: Ilker Kalender |
Impact of Career Interventions on Career Competency and Social Well-Being: A Study of Non-Engaged Youth in Hong Kong - ChinaPresenters: Steven Sek-yum Ngai & Chau-kiu Cheung |
Access to career supports and the amelioration of disadvantage- AustraliaPresenters:Elizabeth Knight, Shuyan Huo & Melissa Tham |
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Keeping students and parents at the heart of career education in secondary school
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The benefits of participating in career talks for high school students
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The YOUTHshare project: real-time monitoring and expanded training for young people from the European South- GreecePresenters: Georgios Chatzichristos, Fotini Vlachaki & Stelios Gialis |
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Matching High School Endorsement and Major Program of Study Choices for Texas College Students - USAPresenters: Maria Adamuti-Trache & Yi Leaf Zhang |
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Toward diversified ways to promote decent work trajectories: career guidance for emergent adults in the informal sector- BrazilPresenters: Marcelo Afonso Ribeiro |
Utilizing technology to mobilize +125 000 mentees to guide youth in career development - USAPresenters: Jared Chung |
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Wisconsin’s Youth Voice in Career Readiness Research Project
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Career Preparation in a Rapidly Changing World: A Comparative International Review of Career Pathways- USAPresenters: Paul Herdman & Robert Schwartz |
GO TEC Virginia: Talent Pathways for Technology and Engineering Careers - USA
Presenters: Julie Brown |
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What Can We Learn About Career Readiness Interventions from Large-Scale, Longitudinal Datasets - USA
Presenters: Thomas Torre Gibney & Cameron Sublett |
Preparing young people for an uncertain future: school-based career preparation activities can reduce the risk of experiencing NEET- UK
Presenters: Ingrid Schoon & Golo Henseke |
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Insights from an online, teacher-led Career Education program
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A tech innovation that supports all young people to explore broadly and think deeply about their future - New Zealand and AustraliaPresenters: Dr Jim Bright & Liv Pennie |
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Social and Emotional competences of career guidance practitioners
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Career education and guidance in formal education
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Career education and guidance in formal education - ArmeniaPresenters: Haykuhi Gevorgyan |
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Navigating career paths in the age of A I - United Kingdom
Presenters: Deirdre Hughes, Dr Chris Percy and Lauren Croll |
AI for career guidance: possibilities and ethical considerations- Finland
Presenters: Egle Gedrimiene, Ismail Celik & Hanni Muukkonen |
Professional and vocational guidance - Portugal
Presenters: André Lopes & Maria José Barata |
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Work Experience Placements in Lower Secondary Education in Nordic Countries
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Rapid evidence review of international work experience practices
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Work experience for all; exploring the relationship between work placement and employment outcomes - United Kingdom
Presenters: Elnaz Kashefpakdel |
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In Motion and Momentum+: A transformative approach to career development programming for underrepresented groups most distant from the labour market - CanadaPresenters: Sareena Hopkins |
Reduced youth disengagement post-16 via improved school-level careers provision in England - United KingdomPresenters: Chris Percy & Laura Hawksworth |
Case study of an after-school programme for connecting education with workplace - GreecePresenters: Panagiota Argyri & Zacharoula Smyrnaiou |
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Career Guidance and Employment for Students and Adults with Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities - Employment for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. (1)- USAPresenters: David Blustein, Carly Blustein Gilson & James Sinclair |
Career Guidance and Employment for Students and Adults with Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities - Work experiences of adolescents with severe learning disabilities and ADHD (2)- IsraelPresenters: Galia Ran & Gali Cinamon
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Career Guidance and Wellbeing: Empowering young people to re-engage- UKPresenters: Deirdre Hughes & Liane Hambly |
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Closing plenary session: From research to practice: how New Brunswick is integrating insights from longitudinal analysis into K-12 career developmentPanelists: Tricia Berry (Department for Education and Early Childhood Development, New Brunswick) Anthony Mann (OECD Directorate for Education and Skills) |
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