Sam Young

It was back in 1998 or 1999 that I began using Google search.

We often forget, when giving students feedback about their academic writing, that EDITING is a huge part of the writing job.

So how do we caption items in Word?

In a previous post, I began considering what a developmental approach is in career development (here).

Earlier this year I was reading a couple of Tristram Hooley papers (Hooley et al., 2018; Hooley & Sultana, 2016) which talked about developmental theory.

Where I teach we use Moodle as our learner platform.

Unlike many other people on the planet, I had not read The Salt Path (Winn, 2018), the UK book relating the story of Raynor and Moth Winn, and their 1000km walk around the South East coast of the UK.

This is not really my gig, but I thought I should at least attempt to feel my way through the political aspects of work that we career practitioners tend to shy away from.

Ah: procrastimarking.

Applying Polynesian voyaging traditions to modern organisational management, wayfinding leadership is a framework translating ocean navigator skills into five key waypoints for personal and professional growth (Spiller et al., 2015).

A review article last year by Ross et al. (2025) examined the themes of the 2023 International Association of Forensic Sciences conference in Sydney, themed as a 'Where to from Here’ (WTFH) conference, specifically convened to address some significant cha…

So: what makes for a good slide in a PowerPoint presentation?

Tara Brabazon (2025) talked about the SOCK - the significant contribution to knowledge - and the research gap in a video last year, citing a few papers which I had not formerly encountered.

i Career decision-making can be thought of as a process flow, where we logically step through gathering and analysing information, comparing options, and finally selecting our optimal choice (Gati & Kulcsár, 2021).

Being interested in language, one of the YouTubers I follow is Rob Watts of RobWords (here, 2026a).

I have reviewed a few career decision-making models recently, including DECIDES (Krumboltz & Hamel, 1980, read more here), CASVE (Peterson et al., 1996, read more here), and PIC (Gati & Asher, 2001, read more here).

Gati and Asher's PIC framework (2001) is a three step career decision-making process.

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.

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).

Have you heard of the CASVE cycle?

I work with a lot of Excel spreadsheets.

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.

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).

So how do we reference a Reddit post in APA style 7th edition?

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).

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).

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).

I have been continuing to mull over why service club membership is declining (read my earlier thoughts here), and stumbled across a PhD thesis and article by David Yates, looking largely at Freemasonry in the UK (2018, 2025).

All professions evolve, with technological advancements, regulatory changes, and shifting societal expectations, so on-going PD is essential for maintaining public trust in professions (Fenwick, 2009).

So what is best practice when we needed to APA cite two or more chapters of a single edited book - or how many chapters can we/should we cite before we should cite the whole book and not individual chapters?

Career Construction Theory, or CCT, proposes that we actively build our working lives, making meaning from our experiences; our careers don't simply 'unfold' (Savickas, 2005).

A role could be defined as "a combination of values, attitudes and behaviour assigned to an individual who occupies a social position" (Aritzeta et al., 2007, p. 97); basically who we are in order to do a job.

I don't know if you ever been sent a file from an Apple Mac user of the type ".pages"?