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About us

CRAC: The Career Development Organisation is the independent, charitable organisation dedicated to career development and active, career-related learning. We have a passionate belief that individuals have the ability to achieve their career goals if they are equipped with the skills to do so.

Our strategic aims are:

  • to support those who help people make career decisions with up to date knowledge of career pathway options and resultant decision making
  • to support employers in their understanding of national education and skills policies and their development of career-related learning programmes
  • to support career development for specific sectors, industries, age or educational groups.   

We achieve our aims by working in partnership with schools, colleges, universities, government agencies and other key national organisations, ensuring that the work we do impacts on as many individuals as possible, to achieve CRAC's vision of a world where people make career decisions wisely and develop their capabilities throughout their working lives.

Our work involves:

  • creating innovative career development resources and programmes for those in formal education, teachers, careers practitioners, graduates in employment and experienced managers
  • devising and conducting relevant research, and effectively disseminating findings
  • delivering training programmes on behalf of our clients ranging from one day events to week long residential activities
  • producing practical and thought-provoking conferences
  • writing, publishing and disseminating reports, training resources and publications.

CRAC is the UK's leading expert in the field of career development for postgraduate researchers and manages Vitae on behalf of the UK Research Councils.

CRAC also developed icould, a free, inspirational resource, offering an insight into real career stories told by real people which contains 1000 stories accessible to young people, on film, online.