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Lucky New Year
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
Career Success
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Why we need to stop the careers counselling guessing game
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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Transforming Senior Subject Selection
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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Careers Education, belief and the hippo in the road
Liv Pennie: Jan 23, 2024 9:08:21 AM
You could hear a pin drop. It's a Wednesday afternoon and we're in a Professional Learning session with a dedicated group of high school teachers and...
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Designing your life from the inside
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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Empathy and Careers Education
Grace Kinch: Jun 27, 2023 2:11:03 PM
Prompted by a recent article in The Guardian, BECOME Education Consultant Grace Kinch, has been thinking about some of the surprises students may...
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People must not be married at first sight to career options
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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Going for Goals
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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Talking to Students about Space Careers
David Wilson: Sep 9, 2022 12:24:12 PM
Heard on a New York sidewalk: “Pardon me,” the man says, “can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?” “Yes,” answers the maestro. “Practice!” This...
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Making a Difference in the World (as long as it's in medicine or law)
Liv Pennie: Aug 19, 2022 2:59:08 PM
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...