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Career Development

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Time to fly

Let's look at the second new feature BECOME has released for schools this month! The new Lesson Flythroughs are a super-quick way for BECOME teachers...

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'Where's the career quiz?' A case for the right kind of data

We show BECOME to a lot of people. Sometimes what we hear really drives home how much the Career Development profession has done itself a disservice...

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When 'Follow Your Passion' is a Waste of Time

These phrases, so familiar to us all, pop up regularly in career development. 'Follow your passion' and 'You can do anything!' mean well, but our...

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Lucky New Year

Waiting for a career breakthrough? A bit of luck is all you need - First published in the Sydney Morning Herald, July 2024

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Career Development in Complex Times

Has your career been a simple path from A - to B - to C? Would 16-year-old you be surprised at what you do now? What would they have said if someone...

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Why we need to stop the careers counselling guessing game

First published in the Sydney Morning Herald, August, 2024. School careers advisors are like a “backwards Google” and the tools they use are...

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Transforming Senior Subject Selection

You know how - a bit too often - when discussing senior subject selections with students, they say, 'I haven't really thought about it'. Or they come...

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Careers on Screen

Updated October 2024 A while ago, we asked on social media what movies and TV shows people thought made great examples for career development (and...

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Designing your life from the inside

We’ve written before about the three main pitfalls of careers tests. The kind of tests that promise to deliver The Answer, The Solution, The One True...

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The secret ingredient for subject selection

Student agency. It's the secret ingredient that we're all after. By agency, we mean young people taking active control over their life and learning....

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