Exciting news: The NICEC Journal is now open access. Search & access all the content, back to 2000. Now we can extend reach & increase the impact of NICEC on the international career development community - nicecjournal.co.uk or via nicec.org. Do share!

Completely in love with The Acorn near Brecon. Leave 21st century to one side for a few days in paradise. Every comfort provided , including homemade airbnb.co.uk/rooms/18155978

What was homemade? Welsh cakes of course

Head to Civic Centre Uckfield for great #artfair evening 1st July and daytime Saturday 2nd July . Loads of lovely artists and makers to inspire you

Supporting #HE students with #career choices - insights from Julia Yates City_OrgPsych - One-to-one career conversations in UK higher education: practical approaches and professional challenges tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

What if.... we abolished HR? This is a cracker of an episode where I asked Peter Cheese CIPD and Wendy Hirsh Institute for Employment Studies to consider what would happen if we got rid of the HR profession entirely, dealing with criticism & proving value podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wha…

No surprise that Peter Cheese CIPD CIPD thinks we'd have to reinvent #HR if it didn't exist..... with more confidence and professional capability. Useful agenda of upcoming issues and shared view with Institute for Employment Studies of evidence-based, collaborative, best-fit approaches to #HR.

One-to-one work with students is central to UK higher education career services, but there's limited evidence detailing the nature of these interactions. IES' Wendy Hirsh & Anna's Julia Yates report on interviews with 22 HE career professionals. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thank you The Mary Rose and Portsmouth Music Hub . We didn't know today was THE actual anniversary day when we decided to visit the dockyard today. We were so lucky to catch this wonderful choir singing with such joy and musicality. Brilliant

Hmmm. Two years after opening these hubs we're closing them. There's 600k more people out of work than pre-Covid. We need more like this, for more people, not less. "With support and funding from DWP" - sounds like wasn't the Council's idea to close it... eastleigh.gov.uk/latest-news/yo…

A recording of Friday's webinar launching the Commission on the Future of Employment Support is now available. You can view Tony Wilson' presentation & download the slides here: bit.ly/3OZlRpo

Thanks Ringmer Village Library for this uplifting thought from 1931. I remember so well my childhood public library in London - the astonishing thrill that I could browse freely and CHOOSE for MYSELF which books to borrow. Ringmer Village Library does that still for ALL who come

Thanks Alison Carter for such a thought-provoking and well informed piece on how employers shy away from #Neurodiversity in work experience candidates

We have a very exciting Saturday here in church with a come and sing event with @ChoirOfTheEarth this Saturday 25th March. For more information and to book go to this link choiroftheearth.com/messiah-tour

"Culture" sounds like it's not real people doing stuff to other real people. I prefer a more straightforward focus on "behaviour" both actual current behaviour and future desired behaviour

Still time to apply for this! We're recruiting for a new Principal Researcher, come and join our great team and help shape the future of work and skills. £55-63k, Brighton/ hybrid. Loads of interesting projects on and a great team to work with.

Thanks Nick Holley . The question I wish #hr people would prioritise before an "initiative" is "have we done something like this before?" Would save endless fruitless tweaks of approaches that don't work

Wonderful thoughts on leadership from Stephen Bevan Institute for Employment Studies . In my 20s I asked the retiring HRD of major plc what he had learned in his working life. His answer was "good managers smile at their staff." Many years later I think he was probably right

In memory of our dear friend and colleague Stephen Bevan, we've collated a wide selection of his blogs and articles that he wrote over the last 20 years. These include pieces for IES, The Work Foundation, Working With Cancer 💙, HR magazine and The Conversation. bit.ly/3RAk5h2

Thank you BBC Breakfast & Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 for keeping loss of libraries in news. #Ringmer independent library Ringmer Village Library couldn't manage its book stock & systems nearly so well without our amazing librarian doing bigger version of her old professional job - unpaid!