Recognising an individual, team or organisation that has made an outstanding contribution to the profession over the past year, whether through delivery of a careers programme or activity, undertaking a piece of research, delivering outstanding training, professional development or other impactful activity.
Professor William E. Donald Over the past year, Professor Donald has made a significant contribution to the career development profession by strengthening practice, professional learning, publishing, and policy. His work stands out for bringing disability, neurodiversity, chronic illness, and career shocks into mainstream career development thinking, while producing frameworks practitioners can use directly with clients. In doing so, he has expanded the profession's repertoire and deepened dialogue between scholarship and application, increasing its capacity to respond inclusively to diverse client circumstances. |
Global Educational Travel and Tours - GETT GETT exists because talent is universal but opportunity is not. Over the past 12 months, Global Educational Travel and Tours CIC has built an international ecosystem connecting practitioners across Asia, North and Central America, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Oceania. Through the Global Careers Exchange, Beyond Borders and presentations at APCDA and other forums, GETT is reshaping global collaboration in the careers profession by replacing one-way knowledge transfer with reciprocal learning, where every country contributes expertise and every participant has something to learn. |
Carl Jackson My research draws on the experience of 296 career development professionals to examine how appointment length, administrative workload and capacity pressures shape delivery of career guidance. The resulting paper gives greater visibility to frontline practitioner experience and addresses an under-examined issue within the profession: the conditions required to deliver effective, personalised and ethical guidance. By identifying patterns in appointments, workload and time allocation, the research argues that delivery conditions should be recognised as core inputs in guidance quality and equity. |
