The Supply and Demand for Career and Workforce Development Programs and Services as a Social Justice Issue

Progress and Prospects in the Evaluation of Career Assistance

“…How can we best inform policy? Although Sampson, McClain, Musch, and Reardon (2011) make a strong case for the accessibility to career assistance as a social justice concern that cannot be ignored, we believe that any case will be more convincing when supported by data to underscore social justice concerns. Policy makers may be influenced by significant results from outcome studies or intervention programs, but not readily grasp the implications of findings that are reported in terms of means and SD s, p values, ES, variance accounted for, and the like.…”

Enhancing agency in career development via cognitive information processing theory

“…This differentiated approach enables practitioners to maximise their resources relative to the demand in a cost-effective way (Reardon, 1996), and supports social justice goals in its aim to increase access to career development services for all (Sampson, McClain, Musch, & Reardon, 2017). For example, one university career centre has reported being able to serve almost half its undergraduate population through this model (Osborn et al, 2016).…”

One-Stop Guidance Service Centres in Finland

“…Frequently referred to as one-stop shops or centres, or more generally as integrated services, the actual structure of these facilities and the services they provide differs widely (Minas, 2014), ranging from co-location to integration of separate organisations (Sampson, McClain, Musch, & Reardon, 2017). Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting (2017) identified three types of one-stop guidance centre in the Baltic Sea Region.…”

“…Reconciling different operative and guidance cultures and establishing collaboration-based One-Stop Guidance Centres (Sampson et al, 2017;Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting, 2017) with common concepts and ways of working have taken time. In the development phase, the definition of what constitutes a One-Stop Guidance Centre remained deliberately quite loose, leaving room to adapt the concept to local conditions.…”

“…The professionals' inputs vary from full-time to collaborative periodic sessions (Sorsa, 2019). This collaboration-based service model (Sampson et al, 2017;Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting, 2017) is flexible and agile, and new services can be added as and when demand arises (Saarelainen et al, 2018).…”