Where will your education and career journey take you?
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Having kept a blog running since 1999 - amazingly - one thing that has always taken me way too much time is creating an image to go alongside a post. Sometimes it is easy because there is a flow chart, table, bullet point list or something similar that simplifies the process. However, most of the time it is a lot more complicated than that. I used to use an old clunky piece of Microsoft kit called…
There are a number of career decision-making models, and I have been thinking about how Peterson's CASVE cycle model (1996; read more here ) differs from Krumboltz's DECIDES model (1980; read more here ). Both deliver a systematic framework that we can use to found our next steps on, but they have have some different steps, and do different things at different stages. They were created at roughly…
Have you heard of the CASVE cycle? This is an old piece of career decision-making kit, written up in the 1990s, detailing five steps of: communication, analysis, synthesis, valuing, and execution (Peterson et al., 1996). It walking us through a range of problem solving and decision making ideas, fitting neatly with the Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory. This is where career choice is…
I work with a lot of Excel spreadsheets. I mark using Excel, because Excel adds up so beautifully, using tick boxes to mark things present - or to indicate that those things are not present. The result is a map of what has been done, what has not been done: and what grade that results in. And I have found I get a more objective mark because of those tickboxes: I might think a student has turned in…
If we are clear about who we are and what actions we are capable of (what we value; self-efficacy), what we are interested in, and what our skills are, we should hopefully have a good idea of the type of work that attracts us. It is at this point that we may need a career decision-making (CDM) model to aid our next steps. Professors Krumboltz and Hamel studied how we naturally select careers, and…
In the context of human resource development, or HRD, the Human Capability Approach, or HCA, is associated with the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen (1999). HCA argues that organisations should focus on the expansion of real opportunities provided to individuals to achieve lives that they value (Sen, 1999). While this has been posted about before ( here ), with an HCA approach, organisational…
So how do we reference a Reddit post in APA style 7th edition? I had a look in the APA manual (American Psychological Association, 2019) and couldn't find an answer. So I turned to an internet search and found a great post by BibGuru, which said that we reference a Reddit post by working our way through the following elements (2025): Reddit Author(s) . We provide the family name and initials if we…
In watching the movie about Bob Dylan's move from folk into experimenting with other forms of music, a couple of lines in the script struck me quite forcibly (Mangold & Cocks, 2024). They arise when Bob Dylan is being confronted by Pete Seegar in the Viking Motel room full of musicians and other "movers and shakers" prior to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival towards the end of the movie…
Human capability is not only about how an employee is trained, but also about ensuring that the systems within an organisation allow the skills of the employee to be effectively used: and Tamkin’s 4A model illustrates this very well (Tamkin et al., 2004). Understanding capacity is vitally important as productivity is falling in many nations: New Zealand included (Boyle, 2026). The model developed…
This post will walk us through setting up a multiple item drop down selection list in an Excel spreadsheet using a bit of VB code from a vlogger who shared just such a bit of code (Bansal, 2025). This is Part 2 of this process (see Part 1 here). Oh - and if we are new to the Developer tab in Excel, we can see how to get that working here , before we get onto the next element (Microsoft Support,…
