You are a career development practitioner who has, until recent years, been employed by the local careers service as it went through its many changes from local authority, to privatized service to Connections. During that time you worked for several years in a large local community high school. While you were part of the careers service provided free of charge to the school, you had very little contact with the Head Teacher; interview schedules were organized by the Career Education, Information, Advice and Guidance lead in the school and although service level agreements had been in place, they were negotiated between managers in your organizations and a member of SLT in school so you never felt that that was your responsibility. You were made redundant by the careers service and have now decided to go it alone as a self-employed Career Adviser. The school have chosen to employ you as they know and trust you. One day you were in the middle of interviewing a year 11 pupil when the door of the room opened and the Head Teacher walked in. She announced that she was going to sit in on the rest of the mornings interviews to see what the school is getting for its money. You had already completed your contract with the client in which you had emphasized confidentiality and client-centeredness and had obtained the permission of the client to proceed under those conditions. You had one further interview scheduled for the morning so you allowed this to happen. You felt very uncomfortable with this but, without the infrastructure of an organization around you, you did not know how to respond; when you were employed you would have taken the issue to your line manager who would have taken the responsibility of discussing and challenging this with the school.

in reference to the above case, discuss in 650 words what kind of a problem is faced as a career developer practitioner?

1- Is it an organizational problem: there is a conflict between your expectations of what the school expects from you and your own expectations of how you will operate in the school as a self-employed practitioner?

2- Or a professional problem: there is a conflict between your professional ethics particularly in relation to client confidentiality and trust as agreed with the client during contracting of the interview.

3- propose actions that would be taken by the school management to accurately avoid such a problem