1. Career Development
Bernadette Gigliotti
Director – CEAV

2. 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

3. 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 ….

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Essential elements of Career
Education
• self awareness
• career exploration
• career decision making
• career management skills

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Blueprint Competencies
3 key areas:
Area A Personal Management
Area B Learning and Work Exploration
Area C Career Building
11 main career competencies; 3 in Area
A; three in Area B; 5 in Area C

17. Career Programs Yr7 & 8
Focus on:
- Self awareness activities
- Values, talents, skill development ,
goal setting
- Researching career industries,
profiles,
- Learning education terminologies
- Creating portfolios

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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