ABSTRACT
Our experience of running a careers education and guidance training programme for a wide range of professionals in the small Indian Ocean state of Seychelles, has provided us with a rather exceptional opportunity to reflect on the important role which careers education and guidance (CEG) plays in the development of a healthy economy and how it can contribute to a changing national culture. Our training course acted as a microcosm within which some of the social and economic issues facing the Seychelles were highlighted. It also helped us to explore not only the purpose of CEG, but its role in raising the consciousness of all professionals who are in a position to affect change within that society.
