This chapter analyses the role of digital technologies in career development. It argues that digital technologies change the context for individuals’ careers and the opportunities that exist for the provision of career support. The implications of digital technologies for career are dependent, in part, on how technologies are believed to interact with society. They may be thought of as tools, as shapers of society, or as social practices. For individuals, digital technologies can be understood through six metaphors: (1) library, (2) media channel, (3) surveillance camera, (4) marketplace, (5) meeting place, and (6) arena. For career development professionals, the choice is using them to provide information, automated interactions, or communication. The chapter concludes by arguing that there are three main pedagogic stances (instrumental, connectivist, or critical) that can guide career development professionals in the combination of different technologies and in the resolution of the opportunities and challenges that are presented to individuals in their career building.

Labour Market Information forms a central place in career practice and how individuals enact their careers. This paper makes use of Alvesson and Sandberg’s (Constructing research questions: doing interesting research. Sage, Thousand Oaks, 2013) methodology of focussing research on theoretical assumptions to construct a critical literature review on the relationship between Labour Market Information and career guidance. This paper presents six theoretical conceptions from the career literature: Contact, Rationalism, Nomad, Adaptability, Constructivist and Social Justice. We will argue for the need to move towards more constructivist understandings of Labour Market Information as well understandings linked to more critical understandings of the labour market.

A case of neuropathy in the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve of the forearm following a Norplant ® removal is described. The incidence of this problem is uncertain. The suggested siting of the contraceptive implants directly over the bicipital groove is questioned. Case reportA 33-year-old woman presented to the family planning clinic for a routine removal of Norplant ® having had it inserted 5 years previously. She reported that at the time of insertion one of the six capsules gave rise to pain in the arm and was removed and replaced. The implant was sited on the anterio-medial aspect at approximately the mid point of the left upper arm, as is standard procedure. 1 The standard -u -technique under local anaesthetic was used for removal. It was noticed at the time that there was quite marked fibrosis, and one capsule was removed in three pieces. Following the removal the patient was treated with antibiotics as there was thought to be infection present with pain and tenderness. She complained of intermittent parasthesiae on the inner anterior aspect of the arm and was referred for a neurological opinion.On examination she was found to have reduced sensation to pin prick in the left arm in the distribution of the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve of the forearm. Nerve conduction testing demonstrated a consistent and reliable sensory potential in the right medial and lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerves of the forearm, as well as the left lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve of the forearm. This potential was absent in the left medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve of the forearm, over her site of hypo-esthesia.No other clinical or neurophysiological disturbance was found in the arm apart from a Tinel's phenomenon when percussing the site of the Norplant ® removal, which radiated to the site of the symptoms in the territory of the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve of the forearm.