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Tweet about this session using #careercon09 Transforming practice – career guidance by telephone Astrid van Holten & Gill England
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Dec 11, 2015

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Page 1: Tweet about this session using #careercon09 Transforming practice – career guidance by telephone Astrid van Holten & Gill England.

Tweet about this session using #careercon09

Transforming practice – career guidance by

telephone

Astrid van Holten & Gill England

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Overview

• Telephone guidance – the story so far

• Where we are now – current practice

• Listen to part of a call

• Observations of telephone guidance as a method of practice

• Questions.

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Why do telephone guidance?

• Making access easy – reaching many moreNew Zealanders

• Young people and their influencers preferpersonal support to sift through information

• Build on integrated services (ie. phone, text, web and one-on-one guidance).

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A brief history

• Review of New Zealand and overseas telephone practice

• One year pilot:

• A full-time telephone career practitioner

• 226 clients

• Strong practice links with learndirect (UK) and other NZ helplines.

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Our learnings from the pilot

• Positive evaluation outcomes

• Valid way to deliver career guidance

• Controlled by client

• Use new approaches to embed service.

“Well, I started from having nothing, I was completely confused and now I know

what I want to do to get my career started. It’s just a

really good system.”

“I couldn’t get to Dunedin and have an interview like that,

it’s convenient, and you open up more in the privacy of

your own home. It was just good.”

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Where we are now

• Reaching many more New Zealanders with technology

• Team grows (from 2-15)

• Advice line (contact centre)and offices

• All ages and stages – needs assessment

• Training and coaching practitioners.

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Listening to a call

Things to listen for:

• Intensity and pace

• Listening skills

• Summarising, reflecting, questioning

• The client.

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Themes from

a practitioner’s

perspective

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Intensity and pace of calls

• Conversation tends to be more direct

• Rapport building occurs throughout the call

• More intense pace

• More demanding on the practitioner's energy

• Pauses and silences are amplified

• Self-care is important.

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Development of listening skills

• Listening is the number 1 tool

• Can hear if the client has disengaged

• Can discern when the client is saying something very important to them

• Using a headset is highly recommended.

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Summarising, reflectingand questioning – key tools

• No visual clues

• Solutions-focussed approach

• Scaling questions work well

• Card sorts can be problematic.

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Clients

• Clients often isolated in some way

• Some clients prefer anonymity and convenience

• Broader client group than normal

• Make no assumptions about an individual’s world view

• Lack of local knowledge sometimes posed difficulties.

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For more information

www.careers.govt.nz/phone_guidance

or

Gill England Astrid van Holten

Practice Advisor Practice LeaderT: +64 4801 5177 T: +64 9632 9502

E: [email protected] E: [email protected]