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Reflection is a vital part of setting career goals. This practice is valuable for career professionals reflecting on their own careers, and for practitioners supporting their clients or students. In the spirit of new beginnings, here are practical resources to aid in meaningful career reflection.
Career development in uncertain times: Questions for self-exploration (CareerWise) [Article]
Career development is a lifelong process that requires ongoing self-awareness, exploration and growth. By fostering this mindset, clients can take control of their careers, regardless of external circumstances. This article highlights self-exploration as a key element of career development, and lists questions for self-exploration.
CPD for the Career Development Professional: A Handbook for Enhancing Practice (Siobhan Neary and Claire Johnson) [Handbook]
This chapter of the handbook covers what reflective practice is, how it enhances professional practice and various models. It is valuable for anyone studying career development or practitioners at any stage who want to refresh their understanding of reflective practice.
Reflective Practice Workbook (NSW Government, Clinical Excellence Commission) [Worksheets]
Although designed for health-care providers in Australia, career professionals in Canada can adapt the concepts from this resource for their own reflective practice. Key sections include a reflective cycle on page 13, core capabilities on page 22 and a guide to running a reflective practice session on page 26. Page 35 features tip sheets on topics like building a reflective practice mindset and emotional regulation.
CXK Reflective Practice Tool For Careers Practitioners (CXK) [Tool]
Accurate and regular reflective practice can help practitioners identify areas for personal development. This tool aims to support the global career development community in pursuing reflective practice, either for themselves or for their clients. This page covers an overview of the tool, which is also available on CERIC’s website.
Reflective Practice in Early Childhood Education (Housman Institute) [Toolkit]
Geared toward early childhood educators, this resource provides a comprehensive overview of reflective practice, which includes a definition, benefits, steps, strategies and implementation tips, plus free downloadable resources.
Reflective Practice on Experiential Learning, and how to Unlock its Career Development Value: Maker’s audit & guide (CERIC) [Guide]
OneLifeTools created this CERIC-supported guide for anyone designing, implementing or wanting to improve experiential learning. It is a companion to the Wayfinder site – a catalogue of reflective practice resources to enhance career development within experiential learning.
Page 7 of the guide has questions to aid in integrating best practices into reflective practice of career practitioners. Page 9 has example questions and prompts that users can integrate or adapt to unlock career development value in reflective practice. This resource can be adapted for written activities, 1-on-1 guided reflection or group workshops.
Reflective practice template (Health and care professions council) [Worksheet]
People learn in many ways: some reflect on positive outcomes while others focus on challenges. The prompts in this resource aim to help users enhance their reflection.
Reflective Practice Toolkit (University of Cambridge) [Toolkit]
This toolkit guides users through the basics of reflective practice and writing, its benefits and how to integrate it into daily life. It is designed to be flexible and offers insights into models of reflection and barriers to reflection.
Reflective Questions for Career and Life Improvement (Indeed) [Article]
Reflective questions are a valuable and positive tool for thinking about past, current and future experiences more in-depth. This article defines a reflective question, provides an overview of its benefits and goes over examples of how it can help shape your career.
Reflective practice for practitioners: Making each day a little bit better (CareerWise) [Article]
This piece explores the importance of reflective practice for career development and work-integrated learning practitioners. Reflective practice could help practitioners grow by making better connections with others, improving use of resources and building on theoretical frameworks.
