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Career Development

The delta of the Geba River on the west coast of Guinea-Bissau is a complex natural system that is ever-changing

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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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A person exploring - their footsteps leading up a sand dune. Blue sky beyond.

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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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A bright colourful graffiti mosaic of a bear's face. The mood is thoughful, energetic and confident.

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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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Two cartoon cats watching a movie. The words Careers on Screen are above them and film strips behind them

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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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Two kayaks in a blue sea seen from above.

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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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A teenager's feet on a skateboard on a ramp

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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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A woman walks between two city buildings in the sunshine

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People must not be married at first sight to career options

First published in the Sydney Morning Herald, June 10, 2023. Narrowing down our options is probably the most common approach to decision-making. Its...

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A girl with a tablet smiles at her teacher

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The Most Powerful Thing you Can Do...

... before they leave Primary school. If you could give your students one big thing before they leave Primary school, something that would set them...

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Going for Goals

As we start the year it's natural to set goals for ourselves, our teams and our students. But this extract, from one of the podcasts by Prof. Jim...

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A young woman in a black shirt seen from the back. She is in a grassy field looking at the horizon. There is a thoughtful mood to the photo.

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Making a Difference in the World (as long as it's in medicine or law)

I’m an optimist. But wow, that bubble has been a bit deflated reading the recent Monash Uni discussion paper, Young Women Choosing Careers: Who...

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