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Career Aspiration Project:
Child Safety Career Counselling
Widening Participation
Clive May, Career Counsellor
Queensland University of Technology
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Background to WP Careers
• Target = 20% of LSES in HE by 2020
• Qld Consortium 8 unis
• Federal / QUT funds = HEPPP
AWARENESS
ASPIRATION
ACCESS
AFFORDABILITY
ACHIEVEMENT
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QUT’s WP agenda
QUT’s WP Rationale
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Career Planning Model
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Destinations of QLD Year 12
Source: Education Queensland (2013), Next Step Survey Results, http://education.qld.gov.au/nextstep/nextstep.html#Results
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Career Planning
• How clear are you about your future career?
No idea.......................................Very clear idea
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Career Choices After School
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Source: Data obtained from Australian Bureau of Statistics (2010). 6278.0 – Education and Training Experiences, Australia.
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/6278.02009?OpenDocument
Higher qualifications:
earning potential
job opportunities
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World of Work Websites
• Occupations and the qualifications needed
Career Search
• Job prospects and earnings
http://joboutlook.gov.au/pages/alpha.aspx
• Different industries
https://myfuture.edu.au/industries
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What do I
want?
What do I
want?
Who am
I?
How
do I
get it?
Career Planning
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Target Your School Subjects
https://myfuture.edu.au/bullseyes
English
Maths
Business
Home Economics
Agriculture
Computers
Geography
Metal Tech
Music
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Observation Activity
1. Consider the pictures below –
what jobs are people doing?
2. Do you like/dislike that job
idea?
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Skills – Working with PEOPLE
• Helping/Advising:
– helping, informing, teaching, treating, listening,
giving advice, instruction, information, concerned
about their social welfare.
• Persuading/Service:
– Selling, influencing, negotiating,
motivating, serving, promoting,
bargaining
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Skills – Working with IDEAS
• Analytic/ Scientific:
– Discovering things, observing, investigating,
analysing, experimenting, researching.
• Creative/Artistic:
– Musical and literary expression,
designing, creating, appreciating art;
Composing, dancing, singing, playing
music
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Skills – Working with THINGS
• Nature/Recreation:
– Natural world, animals, crops,
livestock, sport, and moving about
outside, growing things, outdoors
• Practical/Mechanical:
– mainly with tools and equipment, making and
fixing things, operating machines.
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Skills – Working with DATA
• Organising/Clerical:
– planning, organising, being accurate,
controlling, working with numbers, calculations,
working with systems, policies, procedures,
budgeting, staffing
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Busy Office?
An eye for detail?
Outdoor work?
Environmentally-friendly?Risk taking?
A good nose?Problem-solving?
Work
Preferences
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QUESTIONS?
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The Scaffolded Career Journey for
Students
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• Focus on jobs they might like to do in the future or
know of
• Examples of uni career pathways
• What types of people go to uni?
Introduce self and
opportunity
awareness …
Working with Years 6 ,7 and 8 (aged 11-14)
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• Discuss jobs – illustrate uni career pathways
• Talk about subject choice – link to myfuture Bullseye
• Introduce Occupational Research
Working with Year 11 and 12 (aged 16-18)
• Talk about post-school options …
• Focus on busting myths about the costs of uni and the types
of people
• Focus on access to entry programs and support services
Working with Yr 9 and 10 (age 15-16)
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Your Personal Career Type
1. Adventurers
2. Investigators
3. Artists
4. Carers
5. Persuaders
6. Administrators
[Source: Life Business Consultancy (2013). Training manual: Coaching young people for success. Melbourne, Australia: Author.]
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NASA Group Activity
I am from NASA
We are selecting people to start a new
community on Mars
1.Each group is to write down the contribution their
Type would make to the new planet and then put
forward a case why their Type must be included
2.Each group is to present their case one at a time
to the group
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What JOBS would your Life Type be a
natural at?
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W
eekly spend by life
Single <35
(no kids)
$869
Couple <35
(no kids)
$1,429
Couple
(oldest child
<5) $1,484
Couple
(oldest
child 5-14)
$1,670
Couple
(oldest
child15-24)
$1,900
Centrelink
$203
Apprentice
Certificate
Diploma
$350-$884
Uni
Graduate
$846-
$1,250
Senior
Tradesperson
$1,250-$1,600
Senior
Professional
$1,600-$3800
Weekly Income
Source: Australian Securities and Investments Commission
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Paid Work/Job
Main points to consider:
• Lots of competition for jobs
www.gooduniversitiesguide.com.au/care
ers-guide
• May require formal qualifications or
training
• Great for building confidence, practical
knowledge and skills
• Limited career prospects without
higher qualifications
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Certificate 3
GuaranteeTo be eligible for the Certificate 3 Guarantee a
person must:
•Not hold a certificate III or higher level qualification
(certificate III qualifications completed at school are
not counted)
•Be 15 years of age or older
•Have finished secondary school or left school
•Queensland resident - an Australian or New Zealand
Citizen or permanent resident living in Queensland
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Traineeships, apprenticeships
and TAFE
Main points to consider:
• Usually one to four years of training
• Training and studying at the same time
• Practical on-the-job experience
• www.australianapprenticeships.gov.au/
• www.tafebrisbane.edu.au/
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University Pathways and
Upgrading
1 year of bachelor degree studies
•with a passing grade = Rank 93 (OP 4)
A completed advanced diploma
•with a passing grade
= Rank 93 (OP 4) at QUT or 91 (OP 5) at other unis
A completed diploma
•with a passing grade
= Rank 87 (OP 7) at QUT or 82 (OP 9) at other unis
An AQF certificate IV
•Completed = Rank 74 (OP 12)
An AQF certificate III
•Completed = Rank 68 (OP 15)
Tertiary Preparation Programs
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You can get free, individual plan-hatching assistance via our
Career Counsellors – we won’t just give you information about
QUT, we’ll explore the best courses for you regardless of institution.
Call: 07 5316 7666
We can help you hatch a plan
Email: yourfuture@qut.edu.au
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What Do Employers Want?
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“OK – CLIVE, STOP TALKING !”
Questions?
Your Future Careers Team
TAFE/USC Caboolture Campus
Building I
Tel: 07 5316 7666
Email: yourfuture@qut.edu.au
www.facebook.com/yourfuturecareer
Editor's Notes
ABS Data 2010-2011 Employment rates by qualification:
Without Quals: 34.6% employed
With Quals: 65.4%
Cert I/II: 4.8%
Cert III/IV: 20%
Did/Adv Dip: 11.6%
Bachelor Degree: 18.4%
GradCert/Dip: 3.9%
PG degree: 5.5%
How to think about your career:
Know yourself and the key influences on your career choices and decisions
Research & evaluate your options
Choose a direction, set goals, create and action plan
Identify potential barriers and build in contingency plans
Regularly monitor, review, and adjust if required
Maintain flexibility and openness
in 10 years will your teenagers be thriving in careers that match their passions and abilities? Or will they still be relying on you for support while they struggle to define what they want to do with their lives?
Teacher
Child care worker
Physiotherapist
Fitness instructor
Paramedic
Nurse
Counsellor/Psychologist
Coach
Parole officer
Doctor
Youth worker
What colour is your career?
Pick the colour that you are most attracted to
Any questions?
The program is in-line with the identity development of individuals as well as being aligned with career development competencies and curriculum.
The key focus of Explore Uni is to connect subjects the students are doing at school with study areas at Uni and the jobs they lead too.
In Year 6 and 7 students learn about the world of work and start to consider how their personal interests connect to future jobs.
In Years 8 and 9 students are starting to select study areas based on interests and future goals
In Year 10 students are undertaking more focussed career planning through SET plans and work experience
In Year 11 and 12 students are having to make concrete choices and consider their post-school options.
QUT’s contribution to this is providing days which enhance what they do at school and re-affirm their interests and goals, opening up their opportunities through demystification, role model interaction, and hands on activities.
Creating opportunities for LSES people requires:
Awareness – an understanding of the available opportunities and how to access them
Aspiration – the desire to attend university
Affordability – sufficient money to support student life
Achievement – the educational attainment level to gain entry to university
Access – admissions policies that open the door to low SES students, and absence of distance and time restriction
Year 8
They have no idea of the connection between subjects they enjoy and that they could be a career option
They need to build a profile of themselves through high school so when they leave they have some experience, being involved at school
That they need to know they need to do well now to enable them to choose certain subjects for later
Year 9
A ‘middle’ year that has no real focus, they aren’t first year high school anymore but still aren’t at the top of the tree yet so careers are not even an issue
They need to start thinking about their skills and what they like as they are going to be making their Senior Education and Training Plan next year
Again doing well in certain subjects may help them make a career choice
Point out the differences and strengths of each type
Explain all Types together make a whole community. Every Type is important and makes a contribution to the world, so all will be represented on the new planet
Housing
Fuel & power
Food & drink
Clothing & footwear
Medical & health expenses
Alcohol
Transport
Recreation
Some examples of how your OP (or Rank) can improve with different types of study.
Again be mindful that different unis have different rules around upgrading.
If you do poorly in your upgrading study than can impact your OP/Rank too – you need to choose something you like and will do well in
