Orientation, navigation and engagement: A philosophy for human and digital navigation

Abstract

In this article, we discuss Internet navigation and the Personal Web and set out some of our thinking on an application to support sense-making in the career decisions process. We explain intermediated facilitation by the careers adviser as one of a series of professionals, supporting the client’s continuous ‘Orientation, Navigation, and Engagement’ process. We consider how this supported personal navigation of information process can be more responsive to perceived life-episode shifts, affording a greater degree of personal control complementary to a positive sense of personal wellbeing. We have been developing these ideas over the past decade, through a variety of initiatives and programmes and more recently have begun to build the solutions capable of realising them.