TY - JOUR AU1 - Vaughan, Karen AU2 - AB - Career management competencies have recently emerged in New Zealand and in international policy addressing people’s capabilities to build successful (working) lives in de-industrialised, knowledge societies. This article shows how career management competencies could address three major and long-standing problems with New Zealand school-based career education – inequitable access, marginalisation, and lack of fitness for purpose. It argues for an overall shift from careers information and guidance delivery to longer-term capability building. The article discusses a possible role for career management competencies in relation to the key competencies of the New Zealand curriculum. It also outlines how subject teachers, careers advisors, and industry could work together to provide the kinds of learning opportunities and pedagogies needed by today’s young people making the transition from school to work and further learning. areer management competencies have recently emerged in New Zealand and in international policy addressing people’s capabilities to build successful (working) lives in de-industrialised, knowledge societies. As a set of understandings, skills, and attitudes, career management competencies make particular sense in societies characterised by growing occupational diversity and flexibility, geographical mobility of work and workers, rapid technological change, and labour market unpredictability. The concept of “career” is therefore no longer an TI - The potential of career management competencies for renewed focus and direction in career education JF - The New Zealand Annual Review of Education DO - 10.26686/nzaroe.v0i20.1569 DA - 2010-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/the-potential-of-career-management-competencies-for-renewed-focus-and-HW8Ta5g0af DP - DeepDyve ER -