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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
Recently we asked on social media what movies and TV shows people thought made great examples for career development (and why). We got lots of...
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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...
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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...
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Jim Bright: Jan 25, 2023 1:00:00 AM
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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Liv Pennie: Aug 19, 2022 2:59:08 PM
I’m an optimist. But wow, that bubble has been a bit deflated reading the Monash Uni discussion paper, Young Women Choosing Careers: Who Decides?
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Jim Bright: Feb 18, 2022 7:15:15 PM
Something rather wonderful has happened as a result of the pandemic that should have change managers and management consultants quaking in their...
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Grace Kinch: Jul 23, 2021 9:30:00 AM
How do young people arrive at a point when they decide ‘what I want to do when I finish school’? This has been a passion of mine throughout my career...
