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the International Survey on Ca- timescales’ or ‘I can act effectively Stefan Grajcar
reer Management Skills. In some as a part of society as a whole´ Euroguidance Centre Slovakia
countries the development of CMS (social awareness). From these
is included in school curricula, in kind of learning outcomes it is pos-
others it is still a challenge. sible for educators to come up with The interview was conducted by
Could you tell us something about activities that can develop people’s Stefan Grajcar/Euroguidance Cen-
your expectations here? capabilities. tre Slovakia and was published in
December 2015 for the e-journal
I think that the purpose of career A CMS framework is a practical Career Guidance in Theory and
education and guidance is to help tool that we can use to translate Practice (in Slovak)
individuals learn about themselves, abstract ideas about career into
their careers and the world around actual educational interventions.
them. What career management Such interventions can be organ-
skills frameworks do is to detail ised as a programme in their own
out what this actually means in right or linked to existing curricu-
practice. So the CMS framework lum areas.
that we’ve been working on in the
LEADER project breaks this down
into five areas that could form the
basis of a career education cur-
riculum in a school or university.
We divide CMS up into personal
effectiveness, managing relation-
ships, finding work and accessing
learning, managing life and career
and understanding the world. This
breaks down a big and abstract
idea like ‘career management’
into usable learning outcomes like
‘I can decide on and set my life/
career goals within appropriate

Professor Tristram Hooley is the Head of the International Centre for Guidance Studies at the University of
Derby. He has been involved in research, teaching and education in and around higher education for most of
his career and has particular interests in careers, doctoral education, social capital and the role of technology
in research, teaching and guidance.
Professor Hooley is a member of the UK Careers Sector Strategic Forum and serves on the editorial board
of the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. Recent publication have focused on the subjects of social
media, narrative in careers work, entrepreneurship and the role of the market in careers work. He also writes
the Adventures in Career Development blog various aspects of careers work, research and technology can be
found. Tristram and a list of his publications can be found here. He is on Twitter under the name of @pigironjoe
as well as scattered across various other social media sites. A complete bibliography of everything that he had
read or planned to read over the can be found here. He also answers emails at [email protected].

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