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This is an interesting evaluation of a life design workshop for employability. Authors found that it didn't move the dial on many of their chosen measures, and seem surprised and a bit disappointed. But they shouldn't be. 1/4
https://doi-org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1870946
https://doi-org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1870946
It reminds us that any single intervention (a 2 hour workshop) will have a very small impact, in its own right. Remember, there's strong evidence that repeated interventions are a crucial critical ingredient of careers and employability learning: 2/4 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-best-practice-careers-education-outline-evidence-michael-healy/
Any given workshop will be one of 10,000 experiences in which students' learn and develop employability (or not). One part of a big puzzle. Which is why ecosystems of CEL are so important: dozens and dozens of instances, threaded through the curriculum and alongside it. 3/4
Of course we should design the best careers & employability learning programs that we can. But don't search too hard for the magic intervention, there is none. Most recognise the complexity of employability as a construct, but may not understand that CEL must also be complex. 4/4
