The collaborative use of career information by young people and career advisers: a thematic content analysis of career counselling records has been published in the April 2024 issue of the Australian Journal of Career Development. I am one of the co-authors of this article alongside Marina Milosheva, Professor Pete Robertson, and Dr Peter Cruickshank.

In this work we discuss the information behaviours of young people and careers advisers. We highlight three modes of information seeking: (1) that prompted by careers advisers; (2) that undertaken by careers advisers on behalf of young people; and (3) that completed collaboratively by young people with their careers advisers. The patterns of the interactions, the language deployed over their duration, and the roles of each set of actors in the process of information seeking, point to ways in which career services may be improved, and career information, advice and guidance policies developed.

The article is currently publicly available to download as a pdf from the web pages of the Australian Journal of Career Development. It is also freely available from the Edinburgh Napier repository.

The research that we report draws upon some of the findings from Marina‘s PhD thesis, which she successfully defended at her viva examination on 25th March 2024. The full thesis Career information literacy and the decision-making behaviours of young people will soon be available for download from the Edinburgh Napier repository.

The article appears in Volume 33, issue 1 of the Australian Journal of Career Development