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“What lessons can we learn on the topic from the 2015 Florence conference?”

JG (Kobus) MareeUNESCO CONFERENCE: Career and Life Design interventions for

sustainable development and decent work

Chair: Rachel Mulvey: Round table: “Should career and life

designing interventions contribute to fair and sustainable development and

to the implementation of decent work over the world (if so: how can

they)?”

11:45-13:15, 6 June 2016, Oratorium Marianum, pl. Uniwersytecki 1, Wroclaw, Poland

Hearty welcome to our Chair, our VIP presenters and guests …

AND, of course,our attendees

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Needed

• Readiness and willingness to get our hands dirty

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Some photographs to contextualise my presentation

• Please note that written consent/ assent was obtained for the publication of photographs

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4th Industrial revolution: Seismic shift (Schwab, 2016)

• Change is the new normal today

• Needed: transform and reform

not to

• conform

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Defining decent work

1.a Identification of what constitutes meaningful work (that positively impacts people in a sustainable manner) is essential 

Defining decent work

1.b Important to clarify and consider our ethical stance towards decent work

Movement, action needed …

• From practice to theory and vice versa

(Di Fabio, 2015; Duarte, 2009; Guichard, 2016; Nota & Rossier, 2015; Savickas, 2011, 2015)

… to meet sustainable development goals.

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“Promote and enhance ethics of human work for sustainable human development” (Guichard, 2016)

• “Production and exchange are intrinsically connected” (Guichard, 2016)

Designing novel career‐counselling instruments that ‘work’

2. Develop techniques/ strategies/ interventions to facilitate career counselling

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Career Construction Interview (Savickas, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2011, 

2015)

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Group‐based instruments (and implied strategies

Career Interest Profile (Maree, 2006, 2008, 2015, 2016)

Maree Career Matrix (2016)

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3.a. Walk the walk … (back up your 

words with action)

Work collaboratively with communities 

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3.b. Work collaboratively with other 

stakeholders (e.g. Good Work Foundation: please visit 

www.goodworkfoundation.org) 

Needed 

• Readiness and willingness to get our hands dirty 

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Case study: Good Work Foundation: Hazyview Digital Learning Centre 

• For adult learners, HDLC has an Information‐Communication Technology (ICT) Academy

• Hospitality Academy. 

• Career‐Training Academies.

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3.c. Using IC Technology to provide intervention

Ultimately: Everything revolves about ideal to survive: Prepare clients for REAL world … Not a world that has ceased to exist

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Good Work Foundation (Hazyview, SA): Utilizing Indigenous Knowledge Systems 

in a practical manner

• In keeping with the African tradition that a tree is a place to meet and discuss important matters, learners can gather under a digital tree of knowledge, which features power points, a sound system, and a USB connection to a terabyte of learning material.

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3.d. Learning from communities – must be informed by communities and their 

idiosyncratic contexts

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3.e. Identification of what constitutes meaningful work (that positively impacts people)

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Intervention needed at micro‐, meso‐and macro‐level

Shared sense of 

• destiny, and

• what decent work entails

is key to success

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4. Find a way to align political and counselling perspectives and to reduce corruption

“Rand crashes after Zuma fires Nene on 9/12/15”(Public Investment Corporation e.g. lost R99bn in the 

day after the ‘firing’)

Governments must ensure creation of decent work (ito economic, social, environmental)

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It is our task to INFORM governments and it is their job to ATTEND to our input. Dialogue is critical

• Do school learners have role models (Savickas, 2011, 2013, 2015)?

• South Africa: Apparently not

• Most recent finding (Statistics SA, 2016‐06‐02): Learners believe Traditional ‘Work’ does not ‘pay’

• Crime does …

We currently find ourselves stuck on a hanging bridge …

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Ensuring

– sustainable intervention 

is non‐negotiable

The solution lies somewhere between

• Utopia (possibility)

and

• Reality (actuality) (Kostopoulos, 2016)

Promote movement from

Invisible  visible and actually SEEN

Silent  audible and actually HEARD

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Audible AND heard

Visible AND seen

Actively constructing the self and ‘work’

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5. Acknowledgements

I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to Prof Mark Savickas. Mark, I am indebted to you.

In fact, we all are.

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DedicationIn loving memory of my late

motherwhose legacy I strive to honour

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Dziękuję bardzoKöszönöm szépen

DoviđenjaDhanyawaadagalu

VandaneShukriyaMeherbani

Thank You!/ DankieNgiyabonga!/ Enkosi

Ngiyabonga!/ Ke a leboga! Re a leboha!/ Ndo Livhuwa

Inkomu/ Ha khensaMerci beaucoup Danke schön Güle güleElkheir 

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