Career Tools is a centralized online platform designed to help career practitioners manage their careers programs and resources. It provides tools for delivering careers content, assisting with student pathway planning, communicating with students and stakeholders, supporting initiatives like work experience and VET programs, and producing reports. The system includes a personalized school careers website, a secure student area, and a teacher administration account. It aims to make managing careers programs simpler with easy-to-use tools requiring no technical skills.

2. Career Tools is Designed to:
 Provide a Centralised Platform for all things Careers and Post
School Options – that is simple to use!
 Help you manage your Careers Program by providing you with the
necessary tools; as well as, managing and updating your
information.
 Enable you to help more students without it costing you
additional time and resources.
 Raise the profile of careers (and what you do) in your school

3. The system comes in 3 parts
1.Your personalised Careers Website
2. Your Student Secure Area
3. Your Teacher Admin Account
Note:
- You can be as passive or active with the system as you like.
- Everything is easy to use. You don’t need technical skills.
- There is plenty of support via: Help Videos, Phone & Email.

4. Having a Centralised Platform for all things Careers
and Post School Options – that is simple to use!
This is key – when you are:
1. Providing information/referring to information sources
2. Delivering lessons/Running Activities
3. Assisting in Pathway Planning
4. Interviewing
5. Communicating to a large varied audience on multiple topics
6. Providing and using assessment tools
7. Supporting Work Experience, VET etc.
8. Responsible for surveys and reports
And that’s just Careers... many Career Practitioners/Teachers teach other
subjects!

5. 1. Providing Information/Referring to Information Sources

6. Your School Careers Website is where you can:
1. Refer your students to 1 central place for reliable information and links
2. Provide your own specific information
Note:
- The generic state information is provided and updated for you
- You have the option to add your own school specific information

7. For those of you that don’t have a Careers Website:
You will be provided with a hand-out containing links to our demonstration
sites. This way you can explore the menu items more thoroughly and have our
contact details on hand should you want them.

8. Video - either:
* Leave on Default - changes termly for you
* Choose from your Library
Website Teacher Account

12. Message Board
Short messages and linking to other information

13. Newsfeed
Newsfeed
People can
either go to
your website
to view the
newsfeed, or
they can
sign up to
your
newsfeed
and receive
an email
whenever
you “post”
information.
Posts will
drop off after
3 weeks, but
will remain in
your Teacher
Account as a
record or to
re-post if you
wish.

14. 2. Delivering lessons/Running Activities
Secure Teacher Admin. Account
Teacher Outlines & Student Worksheets
Over 50 Lessons under these 12
Categories:
- Learning About Myself
- Career Exploration
- Enterprise/21 Century Skills
- Preparing for Work
- The Workplace
- The Future of Work
- Volunteer/Community Service
- Self Employment/Entrepreneurship
- Post School Options
- Money and Finance
- Learning/Study Skills
- Positive Education

15. Delivering lessons/Running Activities
Lessons/Activities can be:
- Turned on in the Student Secure Area - all worksheets are interactive PDF’s
- Downloaded/Printed Off from your Teacher Account
- You can upload your own lessons/Activities/Assignments to the Student
Secure Area.
- Students can upload their work to either their Student Secure Account or
their Career Tools e-Portfolio

16. 3. Assisting in Pathway Planning
This mainly comes in the form of Career Plans (SET).
The Career Tools on-line Career Plan consists of two parts:
1. The Student Career Planner Generator – via the Student Secure Area
2. The Careers Practitioner Search Tool – via the Teacher Account
The Career Practitioner can:
1. Manage the Career Plan Questions to suit their Year Groups
2. Search Career Plan data
3. Generate a Parent Document

17. Teacher Account
Manage Career
Plan Questions

18. Teacher Account
Generate
Parent
Document

19. Teacher Account Search Career Plans
Search for things like:
- Year 12 Students wanting an ATAR
- Students Wanting to leave school at 17
- Year 10 students looking for part-time work & have a resume
- Students interested in Health Sciences (give them UCAT info)
- Students that require career and future planning
- Students interested in engineering
- Students interested in VET
- Students interested in attending University of QLD
- And many more……. Anything that is in the Career Plan can be
searched for.
Download/Print list or email directly to just those students.

23. Students can
download
anytime in PDF
or Word from
their Student
Account
Teachers can
bulk download
into a zip file
from their
Teacher Account

24. Assisting in Pathway Planning
Another tool on hand for assisting in pathway planning is the Career Investigator
Navigates students to investigate up to 3 different career paths and give them
an Action Plan Summary Report.
Student Secure Area

25. Assisting in Pathway Planning
e-Portfolio

26. E-Portfolio
Teacher Area:
The Career Practitioner can turn existing questions on and off for each year
group simply by ticking and unticking boxes.
Student Area:
Students can select modules and add information, documents, videos and web
links to create their Digital Portfolio.
Example e-Portfolio https://www.e-portfolio.careers/portfolio/view/gY5fEB7p

27. Student
Area

31. 4. Interviewing
Teacher Account
Career Practitioners have the ability to add:
- Individual Interviews
- Bulk Interviews
- Keywords to a student profile (searchable)
- Create/fill out the Additional Needs form on a students profile.
- Set follow-up reminders

39. Bulk Interview
If you talk to a
group of students.
Great for
accountability and
record keeping.
Quick and easy!

40. Keyword
Option

41. Keyword Search

42. Individual
Needs
Form

43. This page is primarily
designed for creating a profile
of students with individual
needs, however it can be
used for any student.
You can enter all the relevant
information/needs on a
student and then generate
customised documents using
this data.
You can tick and untick any
of the sections and only print
the sections that are ticked in
order to create documents
with information appropriate
for different audiences - eg:
staff, parents or employers.

44. 5. Communicating to large varied audiences on multiple topics
There are numerous ways to do this using the Career Tools platform. Some of
which are:
- Message Board
- Newsfeed
- Emails (both student generated and your own)
- Student Searches (CAP, Keywords etc.)
- Student Groups
- Linking Social Media
- SMS
- Calendar Alerts
- Newsletter Sign-ups
- Custom Pages
- Appointment Booking System
- Send links to specific website pages including Custom pages
You don’t need to use all of them!

45. Student Groups

46. Student Groups

47. Student Groups

48. Appointment Booking System (website)

49. When a student books an appointment:
- The teacher receives an email
- It appears on that teachers personal
calendar within their teacher account
with full details.
- The student receives an email
- The appointment slot will just show
“Booked” on the public website.

50. Appointment Booking System (Teacher Account)

51. Calendar of Events

53. Ready to Copy and Paste into your own Materials

54. 6. Providing and using Assessment Tools
Some of the features in The Student Secure Area:
- Career Personality
- Interest test
- Skills and Abilities
- Work Values
- Entrepreneurship Quiz
- Career Planner
- Career Investigator
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- e-Portfolio
- Mock on-line Job Application
- Get/Record USI
- Personal Statement
- Workplace safety Certificate

55. You have been provided with a temporary login to the Student Secure Area.

56. 7. Supporting Work Experience, VET etc.
 Custom Pages for Work Experience/Workplace Learning, VET (Website).
 Ability to add Teacher Accounts for VET coordinators etc.
 Lessons (Teacher Account).
 Student Groups
 Workplace safety Lessons/Quiz - produces certificate (Student Area)
 Work Experience Info form (Student Area + Custom Report in Teacher Account).
 Keywords (like: VET, USI, SBAT, safe@work, Work Experience and so on).
 Career Action Plan + Search.
 Current Opportunities (can be grouped with other schools).
Again you need not use everything!

62. 8. Producing Surveys and Reports
For Example:
- The Destination Survey
- Summary Report (students that have registered and what they have
done in the Student Secure Area).
- Career Action Plans (Searches, zip files and Parent Links)
- Interviews (download all and/or recent/date range)
- Custom Reports

63. Summary (student Area), Career Plans & Interviews (zip/reports)

65. Custom Reports (student generated)

66. Destination Survey – For Students menu

67. Destination Survey
 Each student’s completed form is emailed instantly to you
 The system will also collate all the results complete with
tables and graphs
 You can download the completed reports
 The survey link can be sms’d to students and they complete
it instantly on their phones
 You can add your own questions

73. Thankyou!
Please feel free to ask any questions