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Reimagining Careers Education

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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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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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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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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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The BECOME.ME app bridge for sport and pro sport

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BECOME.ME 4.0

The latest App update Next time you check in to the BECOME.Me app, you should be seeing the latest version, v4.0.

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How to Design Your Future

BECOME and Clickview, the education and learning video specialists, are delighted to release the first three episodes in the new careers program, How...

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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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Funding a Career Test Doesn’t Mean You're doing Careers Education

Why and how tests should be used with caution, and in context. This article by Liv Pennie was first published in Education Today, August 2022, and...

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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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