Research
Here you will find copies of research reports commissioned by Careers Scotland and links to other relevant research.
Career Planning/Careers Guidance
- Labour Market Information and Guidance (PDF format - 331kb)
- Labour market information for career decision-making (PDF format - 373kb)
- Real-Time Labour Market Intelligence Scoping Project (PDF format - 208kb)
- DTZ School College Collaboration Evaluation Stage One Report (PDF format - 3MB)
- DTZ School College Collaboration Evaluation Stage Two Report (PDF format - 2MB)
- School-College Collaboration: Meeting the needs of exceptional entry winter leavers (PDF format 300KB) - conducted for Careers Scotland by the Employment Research Institute (ERI) at Edinburgh Napier University.
- Assessing Individual Need (PDF format - 2.5MB)
- Developing a Strategic Approach to LMI Within Careers Scotland (PDF 163kb)
- The Development of Careers Scotland's Service Delivery Framework (PDF format 357KB)
- The Careers Planning Professional (PDF format - 99kb) Chapter on Careers Scotland
- Production Value: Futures for professionalism (PDF format - 730kb) Full report
- Review of Assessment Tools to support Guidance & Placing Activities (PDF 90kb)
- Career Goals and Educational Attainment-What is the Link? (PDF-109kb) Executive Summary
- Career Goals and Educational Attainment-What is the Link? (PDF-271kb) Full Report
- Learning about work? The role of school students' part-time employment (PDF format -92kb) Executive Summary
- Learning about work? The role of school students' part-time employment (PDF format 220KB) Full Report
- School students part-time employment (PDF-101kb) Executive Summary
- School students part-time employment (PDF-240kb) Full Report
Equal Opportunities
OECD Reports
- Progress and Potential (OECD) - Executive Summary (PDF format 1.4MB) - Progress and Potential: A Review benchmarked against the OECD Career Guidance Policy Review
- Progress and Potential (OECD) (PDF format 23MB) - Progress and Potential: A Review benchmarked against the OECD Career Guidance Policy Review
- Progress and Potential (OECD) National Questionnaire Response (PDF format 1.4MB) - A case study framed in accordance with the OECD Career Guidance policy review
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Transition in focus
Web Links
- The National Guidance Research Forum website - aims to bring practice and research closer together. The site is for practitioners, managers, trainers, researchers and policy makers or anyone with an interest in guidance.
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