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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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A person looks at the distant horizon from the top of a mountain. The feeling is calm and peaceful.

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Careers Education, belief and the hippo in the road

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

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

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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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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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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Talking to Students about Space Careers

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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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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A pair of feet in red shoes climb a blue staircase.

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What Is Success?

We lack the tools that we need to make reasonable decisions for ourselves as we go through life. Traditional education doesn’t adequately prepare us...

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