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Tech Careers
I am lucky enough to be in London this week, and even better, my visit coincided with a Tech Careers event at the Chartered Institute for IT. This event was organised in collaboration with the Central Careers Hub in London, a group of professional careers practitioners who come together in the same way that I […]
The PaTH Plan
The government PaTH Plan (Prepare, Trial, Hire) scheme, has been receiving a lot of press. In areas of high unemployment, hopes are high. After all, there are 120,00 people between the ages of 17 an 24 currently claiming income support, so something needs doing! But then we have commentators such as Anna Patty, of […]
Melbourne VCE and Careers Expo
I spent yesterday at the Melbourne VCE and Careers Expo. Wow, it was busy, and jam packed with bus loads of year 10s from all over Victoria. I was happy to see that the event had drawn so many students. By the way, VCE stands for Victorian Certificate of Education. There exams are taken […]
Hiring Staff
I’ve been doing a lot of work with young job seekers recently and so when the topic of hiring staff came up at lunch this week, I was all ears. The yummy lunch was with fellow members of the Bayside Business Network, at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. The guest speaker was the well […]
How to Apply to an American Performing Arts College
In Year 10 my daughter, Holly said she wanted to apply to study at an American Performing Arts College. Her school based Career Practitioner said nothing and simply drew “$$$$” on her careers planner. Aside of the fact that the careers practitioner was, by doing this, making a values judgement upon my daughter’s dream, […]
Does ATAR predict Employability?
Does ATAR predict Employability? I’m about to argue that it does not. But In Australia over the past 2 days, there has been a big noise in ‘mainstream media’ and on social media platforms about ATAR results and this noise, as at this time every year, always bothers me slightly. See for example, The Age, […]
Career Fog?
Is this you? Are you in a career fog? There’s almost too many options. Choice can be confusing and when you get a dozen suggestions of subjects and courses, the view gets really blurry. I love this image, because I can remember feeling lost like someone on a hill top with the ground […]
Promised a Job by a Careers Coach
It is very disappointing, more than that, upsetting, to hear that a young job seeker has been promised a job by a careers coach, only to find himself signed up to a fast-track course at a highly inflated price. See “The Age” today, and the story by Michael Bachelard and Henrietta Cook, titled “Education lures […]
The Changing Nature of Jobs
The changing nature of jobs is cause for understandable anxiety. For individuals in career transition, or indeed for teens looking for their first job, the fact that employment is becoming so informal, ie outside of the scope of traditional contractural arrangements, means that there is little job security for many. According to the International Labour […]