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The CDI Cymru Wales Professional Careers Education and Guidance Forum

We have been running a CDI Cymru Wales Professional Careers Education and Guidance Forum three times a year since its inaugural meeting in January 2018.

Aimed at senior representatives and practitioners across the career development sector, the focus of the Forum is based on three distinct pillars:

  • Acting as the Professional Voice for the sector
  • Sharing Best Practice and Research, and
  • Enhancing Quality, Professionalism and Workforce Development

You can access meeting minutes including presentations here:

March 2023


  • Agenda
  • CDI Cymru Wales Forum March 2023 Recording
  • Presentation 1 – Artificial Intelligence in Careers Work
  • Presentation 2 – Leveraging AI for entrepreneurship education
  • Presentation 3 – CiCi: An Artificial Intelligence powered Chatbot to support Career Development
  • Facilitated discussion – “What steps should we all take to avoid the pitfalls and harness the benefits of using AI to support career development in Wales?”

October 2022


  • Agenda
  • CDI Cymru Wales Forum October 2022 Recording
  • Presentation 1 – Attracting and retaining staff: our L&D approach to career planning
  • Presentation 2 – Young Women’s Experiences of Careers Advice and Guidance in Wales
  • Presentation 3 – Finding the funds to find their feet – support for budding entrepreneurs
  • Facilitated discussion –“What steps can we all take to ensure career equity for all?”
  • Minutes


May 2022


  • Agenda
  • CDI Cymru Wales Forum May 2022 Recording
  • Presentation 1 – Career Development and wellbeing: lessons learned from Wales, Scotland and Canada
  • Presentation 2 – Hybrid working and well-being - what's the current evidence?
  • Presentation 3 – Wellbeing at work for young people: what should we really be talking about?
  • Presentation 4 – How adult education enables refugees to create new futures in Wales
  • Minutes

February 2022


  • Agenda
  • Presentation 1 – The CDI 2025 Strategy and What It Means For Wales
  • Presentation 2 – The Nature and Impact of Delivering Guidance Digitally Versus Face-to-face
  • Presentation 3 – Supporting CDI member practitioners with their digital skills
  • Presentation 4 – Health Informatics: a growing and transformative profession

October 2021


  • Agenda
  • CDI Cymru Wales Forum October 2021 Recording
  • Presentation 1 – Every Career Can Be Green
  • Presentation 2 - The skills and workforce implications of a greener energy sector
  • Presentation 3 – Crossing the Generational Divide
  • Presentation 4 – Crunch Media Employer Case Study
  • Additional Resources - The Psychological Impact of Teleworking: Stress, Emotions, and Health
  • Additional Resources - Age and Loneliness in Wales Data Insight
  • Minutes including meeting feedback

May 2021


  • Agenda
  • CDI Cymru Wales Forum May 2021 Recording
  • Presentation 1 –  The importance of early experiential opportunities in the development of entrepreneurial mindsets and behaviours
  • Presentation 2 -  Fit for the Future: developing entrepreneurial mindsets in Higher Education
  • Presentation 3 - The Age of Experience: necessity-based entrepreneurship and the barriers facing older people
  • Minutes and additional resources

February 2021


  • Agenda
  • CDI Cymru Wales Forum February 2021 Recording
  • Presentation 1 - Measuring the economic value of one-to-one career guidance
  • Presentation 2 - Social Value and Career Development – Measuring Impacts through the National TOMs Wales Framework
  • Presentation 3 - Introducing the CDI’s new Career Development Framework
  • Presentation 4 – How could measuring the economic and social impact of career development work provide a lever for change to level up outcomes (facilitated discussion)
  • Minutes and additional resources

October 2020


  • Agenda
  • CDI Cymru Wales Forum October 2020 Recording
  • Presentation 1 – Delivering Digitally in a Covid World, Careers Wales
  • Presentation 2 - Addressing Digital Poverty and Raising Aspirations, The Prince’s Trust Cymru – discussion featured in the recording
  • Presentation 3 - Developing resilience and wellbeing, ACAS Cymru Wales
  • Presentation 4 - What steps can we take collaboratively to mitigate digital poverty, enhance wellbeing and resilience, and rebuild career aspirations for all? (facilitated discussion)
  • Minutes

May 2020


  • Agenda
  • CDI Cymru Wales Forum May 2020 Recording
  • Presentation 1 - The digital needs of career development professionals, iCeGs
  • Presentation 2 - Delivering digital services to customers: an overview of provision and what we have learned, Careers Wales
  • Presentation 3 - A practitioner perspective on managing groups digitally, Career Alchemy/CDI Cymru Wales
  • Presentation 4 - What steps do you need to take to enhance your digital provision? Facilitated discussion

February 2020


  • Agenda
  • Presentation 1 – “Experiences” and “Encounters” – the value of volunteering, WCVA
  • Presentation 2 - Stepping Stones: how adult learning creates opportunities and purpose for individuals, Adult Learning Wales
  • Presentation 3 - Inspiring Confidence for Longer Working Lives, PRIME Cymru
  • Presentation 4 - Providing career opportunities for young people with ALN Dr Elisa Vigna, Cardiff University, Cardiff University
  • No minutes prepared as presentations have acted as a matter of record

September 2019


  • Agenda
  • Presentation 1 - The New Curriculum for Wales: Key Concepts and iIpact for Future Working Lives – English | Welsh
  • Presentation 2 - The Gatsby Good Career Benchmarks in Rhondda Cynon Taf
  • Presentation 3 - The Careers & Enterprise Company - Supporting the Role of Careers Leader
  • Minutes

May 2019


  • Agenda
  • Presentation 1 – Welsh Government: Implementing the new Employability Plan for Wales – one year on.
  • Presentation 2 – Careers Wales: Working Wales – the national entry point to employability support
  • Minutes

January 2019


  • Agenda
  • CDI Cymru Wales response to Industry 4.0 – the future of Wales report
  • Presentation 1 – NHS Wales: HEIW overview and update
  • Presentation 2 – Using Neuroscience in Career Decision Making
  • Presentation 3 –Ysgol y Deri: Work related Education in a Special School
  • Minutes

September 2018


  • Agenda
  • Presentation 1 - Industry 4.0, Carolyn Parry
  • HEFCW
  • Minutes

May 2018


  • Agenda
  • Presenation 1 - Who’s creating the evidence base, Nikki Moore
  • Minutes

January 2018


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  • Slides from Jan (inaugural meeting)
  • Slides from Sarah Finnegan Dehn
  • Minutes
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