Careers:TRAINING

The careers service covers such a range of activities, each brushing against those of so many other agencies, that it would be hard to find any two officers following the same job specification. This leads to a situation where external commentators are seldom able to identify the specific contribution of the careers officer. Careers officers themselves have the same problem — they attempt a little bit of everything over an impossible range of duties, alternatively they act out a role in response to a particular local need. There is almost always such a volume of work that standards inevitably fall in an attempt to meet all needs.