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Dr Trent Loader: Feb 12, 2025 2:07:05 PM
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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Jim Bright: Jan 17, 2025 4:04:36 PM
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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Liv Pennie: Oct 30, 2024 1:32:47 PM
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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Jim Bright: Sep 25, 2024 4:15:41 PM
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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Bev Laing: Mar 7, 2024 12:29:01 PM
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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Bev Laing: Oct 20, 2023 10:10:52 AM
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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Liv Pennie: Sep 8, 2023 1:19:04 PM
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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Liv Pennie: Aug 7, 2023 12:30:57 PM
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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Jim Bright: Jun 14, 2023 1:30:49 PM
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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Liv Pennie: May 16, 2023 12:19:40 PM
... before they leave Primary school. If you could give your students one big thing before they leave Primary school, something that would set them...
