APCDA Podcast

APCDA Podcast

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APCDA Podcast episodes

  • S1 Ep11: The International Student Journey - Chinese Edition
    Dr. Yang Ai and Ms. Hongshan Shao join this episode to share their journey as Chinese international students to the US and how it impacted their research agenda. Dr. Ai is currently a tenure track Assistant Professor at the University of the Redlands and Ms. Shao is a doctoral candidate at Penn State University. Both are counselor educators with a focus on career development; both study the experience of Asian international students attending schools in Western countries. Hongshan Shao is the author of the lead article in the September 2021 issue of the Asia Pacific Career Development Journal titled “Career Considerations When Working with Chinese International Students. The conversation touches on the following topics:

    • Yang and Hongshan’s personal journeys as international students to the University of Missouri - St. Louis (5:30)
    • Initial Culture Shock including talking on the telephone for the first time (10:30)
    • How to Get Better at Supporting International Students in Transition (15:15)
    • Mental Health and Wellness of Chinese students in transition (23:00)
    • What is the biggest kindness each guest received in their transition (26:50)
    • Post graduation career decisions for Chinese international students (29:30)

    • 36 min
    • S1 Ep10: Uniting Us All with the UN Sustainable Development Goals with Raza Abbas
      Pakistan’s career development pioneer Raza Abbas joins host Brian Hutchison for an important conversation. Beginning in 2010, Raza jump started the field of career development in Pakistan by meeting global leaders, using their evidence, and adapting it to his country’s cultural context. We bridge this amazing story to Raza’s use of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in career development to organize and mobilize thousands of career seekers in Pakistan and beyond. The conversation touches on the following topics (time stamp of this dialogue):
      • Raza’s principles for identifying evidence and adapting it to practice in Pakistan (6:10)
      • United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and career development (11:30)
      • Practically integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals into career practice, consultation, and optimizing professional career development practice (16:35)
      • Working with career practitioners using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (20:40)
      • The importance of the art of communication in career development work (22:30)
      • 30 min
      • S1 Ep9: First Gen Around the World
        Dr. Jonique R. Childs, an Assistant Professor in Education Student Development at UMass Amherst, joins host Brian Hutchison for a scintillating conversation about her work with First Generation college students and their career development. The conversation touches on the following topics:
        • First Gen description and mental health consequences (2:00)
        • Implicit Bias defined in a useful way (7:45)
        • Cultural Humility and Broaching (13:30)
        • Microaggressions in the Workplace (15:40)
        • Psychological Safety at Work (19:50)
        • Asia Pacific First Generation Students (23:30)

        • You won’t want to miss this episode!
          35 min
        • S1 Ep8: Going Global with Student Coaching and Development
          International career coach Heather Lu-Lasky, CEO and Founder of ChampAmerica, joins Brian for an in-depth conversation about her career and work with international students/graduates looking for positions in the United States. This wide ranging conversation will touch on topics such as

          • Working on Wall Street in the finance sector.
          • Transition issues for international students coming to the United States.
          • Internship and job search for international students.
          • Social media and technology as applied to coaching and learning.
          • Adapting to the pandemic by shifting to coaching work in China.

          • 29 min
          • S1 Ep7: Marilyn and Brian Talk Career Theory and Practice
            APCDA legend Dr. Marilyn Maze joins host Dr. Brian Hutchison, APCDJ Editor and Global Career Guy, to engage in a wide-ranging conversation about career theories old and new as the apply to 21st Century career services practice. We share insights into Computer Assisted Guidance, Donald Super, John Holland, Chaos Theory or Careers, Career Construction, and more. This is a “fly on the wall” episode where the listener can pretend to be listening in as Marilyn and Brian just talk about the profession then and now.
            41 min
          • S1 Ep6: Women Were There Too: The Early History of Career Development
            Brian Hutchison, APCDJ Editor and Global Career Guy spends Episode 6 with Dr. Sarah Patterson-Mills speaking about the many women who contributed to the field of career development in the late 1800’s and first half of the 1900’s. We discuss the stories of these important women and why telling them today is so important for understanding our “true” history and creating a more fair and equitable world-of-work. Topics covered include: 
            • Jane Addams of the International Red Cross and her contributions to career development in the 1800’s.
            • Settlement House Movement, Vocational Bureaus, and how Frank Parson’s was surrounded by women in the movement.
            • Anna Yeoman Reid and her travels across the US to collect data to research work conditions and work in the Seattle Vocational Bureau. 
            • Biases about gender in ourselves as we do this work today and why this historical work is important today.
            • How women connected at Teacher’s Colleges and Settlement Houses to create a career development network in the United States. 
            • The world’s first work/life balance groups in Chicago’s Settlement House around 1900 and what they teach us about working women today.
            • 33 min
            • S1 Ep5: Career Work for Persons with Disability is Universal
              Episode 5 finds me, Brian Hutchison APCDJ Editor and Global Career Guy, with Dr. Tina Anctil speaking about career development for people with disabilities. Tina shares specific counseling techniques, stories from the field, and her own model for working with this client population, specifically adults with an acquired disability. Tina and Brian are old friends and colleagues and this episode is like “being a fly on the wall” while they talk about the importance of this work and her expertise. Topics covered include: 
              • Terminology specific to vocational rehabilitation counseling and its companion fields.
              • Tips for beginning career coaches and counselors.
              • Dr. Anctil’s model for workforce development professionals to work with persons with disability.
              • Specific assessment tools for working from a universal design perspective.
              • Disclosing disability in the job search process.
              • 39 min
              • S1 Ep4: Developing an Adaptive Career Mindset for the Post-COVID World-of-Work
                Episode 4 is our first cross-branded episode!! In this one, Dr. Brian Hutchison is a guest on the Theory of Change podcast discussing his ideas about the science and nature of Developing an Adaptive Career Mindset for the post-COVID world-of-work.  This conversation really digs into aspects of career development that we need to adapt to the 21st Century including: 
                • Why addressing career concerns is important for many types of practitioners (4:50)
                • Why career focused professionals must uncenter work to recenter life (7:00)
                • How external forces such as pandemics, political upheaval, and other events impact work stressed who is responsible (12:30)
                • Connection between work and mental health/ wellness/ cultural concerns (16:15) 
                • Gig economy and its challenges (19:00)
                • Neurobiology, science, and how this forces us to adapt our career practice (24:45)
                • And a lot more!!
                • 48 min
                • S1 Ep3: Dr. José Domene Explains the Article Publication Process
                  In Episode 3 of Behind the Science of Career Development, APCDJ Editor and Global Career Guy Brian Hutchison hosts Dr. José Domene, Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada to learn the story of his role as Associate Editor of APCDJ. This wide-ranging conversation covered several topics of interest for career practitioners and scholars including his background, how an academic journal works, how to think about research, and the process of developing scholarship for publication.  This conversation really digs into the basics of professional scholarship including:
                  • Key terms in the academic scholarship process.
                  • The different roles and responsibilities of the journal staff and Editorial Board.
                  • The types of research methodologies and articles one can publish. 
                  • A case example of a college career center program evaluation study that might be published in APCDJ.
                  • The special process that APCDJ uses to encourage authors first time and early career scholars to write for APCDJ.
                  •  Asia Pacific Career Development Journal:  https://AsiaPacificCDA.org/Journal
                    Join APCDA: https://AsiaPacificCDA.org/Join-Renew
                    Attend a monthly webinar on global career issues:  https://AsiaPacificCDA /Webinars Follow Brian Hutchison on Twitter @globalcareerguyFind José Domene at his university web page at http://werklund.ucalgary.ca/educ_info/profiles/1-8672653
                    34 min
                  • S1 Ep2: It Takes a Village: Meet the Singapore Career Development Tribe
                    In Episode 2 of Behind the Science of Career Development, APCDJ Editor and Global Career Guy Brian Hutchison hosts Yvonne Kong-Ho and Jeremiah Wong to learn the story of their article from the September 2019 Lead Article titled It Takes a Village: Meet the Singapore Career Development Tribe. This wide ranging conversation covered several topics of interest for career practitioners in Singapore and around the world, including 
                    • Career practice over the lifespan, from childhood to post retirement.
                    • Collaboration between school, university, union, government, and private sector career constituents.
                    • Collectivist culture and career development planning.
                    • Women in the workforce and career development.
                    • The process of academic publishing for first timers.
                    • The history of career development in Singapore - players and personalities.
                    • Asia Pacific Career Development Journal:  https://AsiaPacificCDA.org/Journal
                      Join APCDA: https://AsiaPacificCDA.org/Join-Renew
                      Attend a monthly webinar on global career issues:  https://AsiaPacificCDA /Webinars Follow Brian Hutchison on Twitter @globalcareerguy
                      50 min

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