Trends affecting career change and influences from 2020 and how to leverage them for working lives will be the key themes from @HerminiaIbarra #DOPConf

Longevity, technology, work change and social expectations are the four major 2020 trends in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. #DOPConf

Previous ideas about longevity of careers and how we think about work are no longer valid with the changes in life expectancy. #DOPConf

Technology change entails fewer jobs, and corporate change brings cost reduction and higher unemployment, with gig work on the rise. #DOPConf #2020

Social change has driven "portfolio careers" and the pursuit of "passion" and worklife meaning and well-being. #DOPConf

Next up is @ElseyVicki talking about "Faking it, creating it and making it: the pillars of professional identification in Occupational Psychology". #DOPconf

What are the five pillars and why do they matter for employability? Ensuring MSc graduates have somewhere to go. #DOPconf

Vicki looked at career stories and how graduates forged their identity into the profession. Identification precursor to identity, but is more outward-facing. This research interviewed 20 MSc graduates, aged 22-63, about their career. #DOPconf

These interviews led to five pillar model. First pillar is Education and Learning, with continual life-long learning contributing to identity-forming. #DOPconf

Second pillar is Networking and Building Relationships. Who is in your network and how do you support each other? Those connected to #weareoccpsychs found identity-building stronger, with networking being very important. #DOPconf

.@claudiahammond introduces the panel discussion on elitism in occupational psychology with @NancyDoylePsych @TomCalvard @PavtweetKhurana and Ben Williams, former Chair of @ABPsychologists

Ben starts by taking a poll on the topic, do we feel the profession is elitist? 22% say yes, 13% say not at all. #DOPconf

Ben says if success comes to the "best" in a profession, how accessible is it? Or do factors such as network bring you to the elite? Challenging to level the playing field. #DOPconf

Turning to @PavtweetKhurana, who takes issue with "best". Who defines it, standards mapped against what? Does school define access? We can have an elite without elitism, it is exclusion that is problematic. #DOPconf

And now @NancyDoylePsych who talks about lack of disability, racial and other areas of representation in Occupational Psychology. #DOPconf