Career development learning in the curriculum: What is an academic’s role?

Career development learning (CDL) is an approach to developing student employability that enables students reflect on and plan their future careers through engaging in activities outside or within degree. Building literature arguing for the benefits of integrating CDL curriculum, this study examines academics’ perceived roles facilitating CDL. Informed by principles processes Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), 55 academics were interviewed from one institution, enabling responses be examined a common lens teaching, policy governance structures. Findings demonstrate while some participants broadly understood value CDL, term not well known. Further, strategies teaching contexts occur, they are mostly unplanned dialogic. This paper presents taxonomy current practice, featuring 11 diverse curriculum grouped as absent, implicit explicit approaches. The offers recommendations university-wide agenda features embedded across core curricula.