Career Development

Bernadette Gigliotti
Director – CEAV
Career Development Framework
Developed by CICA
• The National Standards for Career
Practitioners
• The Australian Blueprint for Career
Development
• Guiding Principles for career
Development Services and Products
Terminology
• Career development – the process of managing
life, learning and work over the lifespan
(CICA2006)
• Career Practitioner – an umbrella term that
refers to direct service providers in career
development field; career counsellors; work
experience coordinators; employment
counsellors,; career educators; employment
support workers ….
Terminology
• Career – paid and unpaid roles across the
lifespan ; life roles; leisure learning; work
• Career education – development of skills,
knowledge and attitudes through planned
program of learning experiences in
education, training and work settings
Current Practice in Career
Education
Government Schools
- Aligned to VELs Level 5&6 – Humanities
- Careers education part of teaching
allotment
- Managed Individual Pathways – SSO’s
- On Track data – post compulsory
Current Practice in Career
Education
Catholic schools
- Aligned to Pathways Policy
- Vocational Assessments Year 10
- Career education part of teaching
allotment or full time careers
- Emphasis on Subject Selection
- On Track data – post compulsory
Current Practice in Career
Education
Independent Schools
- Aligned to school vision and mission
- Assess at Year 10 for Subject Selection
ENTER capabilities
- Full time qualified practitioner
- Some timetabled classes
- On Track data – post compulsory
Current Practice in Career
Education
Many examples of quality career education
• Individual school level
• State initiatives
• Federal initiatives
• Career practitioners
• Resources
http://www.deewr.gov.au
http://www.education.vic.gov.au
The Professional Standards for
career practitioners
7 elements that frame career development work:
• Career development theory
• Labour market information
• Ethical practice
• Advanced communication skills
• Diversity- cultural sensitivity
• Information and resource management
• Professional practice
Career Development theory
Includes:
- Styles of counselling
- Career tools- audit tools, vocational
assessments tools, MIP’s, Blueprint,
Employability Skills
- Career polices or frameworks – VELs,
Victorian Blueprint for education,
Employability Skills Framework
Essential elements of Career
Education

• self awareness

• career exploration

• career decision making

• career management skills

The Australian Blueprint

11 Competencies
- Underpinning career development across
the life span
- Phases I- IV
- Phase II – middle years of schooling
- Phase III – senior secondary
The Blueprint
• The Blueprint is a set of 11competencies

• A national framework of competencies that aims to

help Australians to better mange their lives, learning
and work; to cope with change.

• Process for planning, implementing and evaluating

career programs and resources that will assist all
Australians to gain career development competencies
The Blueprint
• Identify career competencies – from
primary school to adulthood
• Facilitate service consistency

• Challenge assumptions about career

development
• Accelerates the establishment of a career
development culture
The Blueprint Applications
• The Blueprint

- Individuals and groups in consultation with

clients/students

- program review to map competencies

- organizational level to assist with professional

development of staff
Blueprint Competencies
3 key areas:

Area A Personal Management

Area BLearning and Work Exploration
Area CCareer Building

11 main career competencies; 3 in Area A;

three in Area B; 5 in Area C
Career Programs Yr7 & 8
Focus on:
- Self awareness activities
- Values, talents, skill development , goal
setting
- Researching career industries, profiles,
- Learning education terminologies
- Creating portfolios
Career Programs Yr 9&10
Focus on
• Decision making activities – how, what, why of
choice – exploring impact of choices on social
or life influences
• Learning the terminology of pathways
• Re defining interests, values , goal setting
• Building portfolio sections – skills, knowledge,
life experiences
Career Programs Yr 11 &12
Focus on
• Building portfolios – demonstrating
skills, knowledge, life experiences,
networks
• Learning the terminology of choice
• Exploring the impact of life choices
• Action planning and Goal setting
Career development
• Can’t be delivered in isolation of one’s
life experiences
• Holistic in it’s nature
• Doesn’t rely on numeric result
• Provides the basis for ongoing learning
and development
• Crictical core business in every school,
community and organisation