Join the CDI and support the careers strategy

• What is the CDI all about?

• Professionalism and investing in your CPD is important

• CDI support and lobbying since the launch of the careers strategy

Jan Ellis

UK-wide professional body for the career development sector

Membership: over 4,250 members

Key aim: To support and encourage the delivery of high quality career development services, through our work to develop the careers workforce

Strong focus professional standards and development; custodian of the UK Register of Career Development Professionals

Lifelong career development for all: careers services that work for everyone

Promoting professionalism:

UK Register of Career Development Professionals (1575)

2018 ‘Year of Networking and Member Engagement’

Building political and policy influence and partnership working

Ownership of the National Occupational Standards NOS: CD

Creating a new jobs board for the sector – Careers in Careers

Establishing a Career Development Pathway for the sector

Delivering a broad programme of CPD, including free webinars

Increasing member value through the website and members’ area

Establishing the CDI Academy offering L4 – L7 qualifications

Celebrating success through the UK Career Development Awards

Trusted partnerships with the DfE; CEC; Gatsby Foundation

Membership types Individual (MICD)

Registered Career Development Professional (RCDP)

School Affiliate

Affiliate/Student/Retired Member

Membership provides immediate access to: Membership of a community of interest – eg careers education or HE

Membership of closed LinkedIn groups – communities of practice

Access to free webinars – 25 hours CPD annually

Two free NICEC/CDI one-day CPD events annually

Career Matters – quarterly magazine posted to your address

Access to the ‘members’ area’ – CPD recording

Opportunity to attend CPD/training at the reduced member rate

Recognising the need to keep your skills and knowledge up to date

Integrating current research and theory into practice

Keeping up to date with societal and technological developments

Adopting professional values and adhering to ethical standards

• News by Email• Career Matters• CPD Monthly Newsletter

• Free NICEC/CDI events• Members’ Area of website• CPD courses and training

• Digital strategy• Career thought leader• Networking

• CDI Code of Ethics• UK Register of Career

Development Professionals

Lifelong career development for all: careers services that work for everyone

1. Very supportive of the Gatsby benchmarks with a few important caveats – benchmark 1 and 8

2. The statutory duty to include careers education in the curriculum should be reinstated and extended to age 18

3. Problems of a school-based model of careers guidance need to be addressed – young people not in school; funding and sustainability

4. All careers advisers should be professionally qualified and ideally on the UK Register of Career Development Professionals

5. Need for investment in the new Quality in Careers Standard – work in progress to align with Gatsby benchmarks and re-launch the award in September

6. The current National Careers Service should be reconstituted into a truly all-age, lifelong career development service

7. The Government should initiate a campaign to improve the prestige of careers guidance