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About Janet Colledge

Janet is a teacher with over 15 years experience providing award winning careers education and 25 successful years teaching business studies in schools and colleges throughout London. She adopted her tongue-in-cheek Twitter name, @CareersDefender, after a particularly hard time convincing her school's Senior Leadership Team of the value of careers education; something she passionately believes in.

Planning for National Careers Week – It’s not all about you!

As a careers education consultant one of the major frustrations and barriers I encounter when working with career leaders is [...]

By |2022-02-07T09:16:37+00:00February 7th, 2022|careers leader, CEIAG, trending|Comments Off on Planning for National Careers Week – It’s not all about you!

Ho, ho, ho. Happy Christmas – Give yourself the gift of working with your feeder schools

Christmas is on the horizon, you’ve still got to find a present for Aunt Mable and Uncle Ola and you’re [...]

By |2021-12-07T11:34:40+00:00December 7th, 2021|career trends, careers leader|Comments Off on Ho, ho, ho. Happy Christmas – Give yourself the gift of working with your feeder schools

Using the impetus of National Careers Week to help build your careers team

It’s almost impossible for me to credit that National Careers Week (NCW) will be 10 this year. I got involved [...]

By |2021-03-18T10:08:41+00:00February 8th, 2021|careers leader, CEIAG, Gatsby|Comments Off on Using the impetus of National Careers Week to help build your careers team

The three main challenges for the careers leader next academic year

What will the ‘new normal’ look like come September? Or even this time next year? Will careers leaders throughout the [...]

By |2020-12-10T11:01:34+00:00July 10th, 2020|careers leader, CEIAG|Comments Off on The three main challenges for the careers leader next academic year

Employers are from Mars, Schools are from Venus: Making Employer Engagement Worthwhile

One of the most time-consuming aspects of being a careers leader (if done well) is ensuring that there is a [...]

By |2020-03-26T17:29:30+00:00November 20th, 2019|careers leader, CEIAG|Comments Off on Employers are from Mars, Schools are from Venus: Making Employer Engagement Worthwhile

Why it’s important for careers leaders to make their feelings (and needs) known to Ofsted

In the middle of the cold dark first few weeks back after the merriness and [...]

By |2020-03-26T17:03:40+00:00February 18th, 2019|careers leader, CEIAG|Comments Off on Why it’s important for careers leaders to make their feelings (and needs) known to Ofsted
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