Employability Skills Framework and The Canadian Blueprint

The following websites will be of use if you require further background information about the Employability Skills Framework or the Canadian Blueprint upon which the new proposed Australian Blueprint for Career Development K- Audulthood will be modelled:

http://www.dest.gov.au/ty/publications/employability_skills/index.htm

http://www.blueprint4life.ca/blueprint/home.cfm/lang/1

Miles Morgan Web Site http://www.milesmorgan.com.au

The Australian Blueprint for Career Development

Download these documents for reading | The Australian Blueprint for Career Development Final Draft Report | Managing Life, Learning and Work in the 21st Century

The Australian Blueprint ... What is it?

It is important to recognise that this project will affect activities related to careers and consequently, your role as a career professional. This exciting project commissioned by the Transition from School Taskforce of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) and the Enterprise and Career Foundation (ECEF), aims to develop and test a blueprint for the development of career services and products for children, youth and adults across Australia.

Although there are many excellent career programs and services currently operating throughout the country, at the present time, there is no 'active' national framework that specifies the competencies that all Australians need to acquire in order to build their careers. The Australian Blueprint will assist career practitioners, working in diverse settings, to offer services and products that empower people to better manage their lifelong learning and work. It will help career service providers to determine which competencies are required by their clients, and to ensure that career management skills are developed and recorded in a systematic way. It will also provide a system for coding career information resources. It is our hope that an actively implemented framework will serve to reduce the current 'hit and miss' nature of service provision in Australia.

You may also like to access the project updates on-line: http://www.milesmorgan.com.au

Flexible learning Centre

http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/

Pushing the Boundaries Conference hosted by Career Services in Wellington NZ.

Many of the papers have been posted on the website at http://www.careers.govt.nz Neil Maitland said the 450 delegates appeared to enjoy their conference and you may also enjoy the papers.

Online Personality and Vocational Interest Tests:

If you haven't had a chance to look at http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/content/view/full/177 , then now is the time. Important decisions need to be made regarding school subject choices. Please take a look at the website.

Australia's Career Information Service

The web site is now live at:

http://www.myfuture.edu.au/

Myfuture is a Joint initiative of Commonwealth, State and Territory governments. It has been built and will be maintained by education.au limited. It is the product of the shared vision of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA). It provides Australia's most comprehensive set of career related information necessary for making informed career decisions (The Facts). It also provides a decision making tool to support users through the process of exploring options, goal setting and career planning (My Guide).

We are confident that you will find the site to be helpful as you explore your own career aspirations as well as in any work you may do to assist others making career decisions. We have plans for further enhancements but we are keen to receive your feedback. Please use the 'Contact us' facility at the site to tell us what you think.

Download the myfuture information powerpoint presentation myfuture.ppt

OECD Review of Career Guidance Policies

download pdf pdf version

Tutors Worldwide

http://www.tutorsworldwide.org/

Welcome to the Tutors Worldwide website. Tutoring overseas is rightly popular among school leavers, as it offers the opportunity to experience life in another culture, to travel extensively and to gain genuine experience: all positive factors in the maturing process, along with an invaluable break before embarking on further studies, today smiled upon, if not positively encouraged by the majority of tertiary institutions.

Tutors Worldwide was established from personal experience in the education profession of the time-consuming and expensive frustrations encountered by students seeking positions at suitable schools and by schools seeking to recruit suitable tutors. Tutors Worldwide combines personal contact with and knowledge of each school with the results of an extensive interview with each applicant to maximise the rate of successful appointments from the perspective of both student and school.

Currently Tutors Worldwide recruits for (both senior and junior) schools in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and from among students in the same countries, incorporating personal visits to all countries.

If you consider tutoring to be your choice for your gap year, you are invited to explore the Tutors Worldwide option. Follow the link at the bottom of this page to download application forms and further information - important details like deadlines and the postal address to which application forms should be returned.

Life & Work Planning Resource: A card sort kit for 15-24 age group designed by Paul Stevens

This new resource focuses on cognitive achievement, i.e. when youth and young adults complete it they will be motivated to move forward and take their exploration of work options and further education to the next stage. The learning objective is to help the user discover or confirm facts about their motivated interests and also their transferable skills and how these realities influence identifying viable options in life, work and/or further education. Includes Administrator's Manual and two reusable Card Sort Sets (31 x Interests / Life management activities and 31 x Skills Analysis).

The career resource design guru, Martin Kimeldorf, comments: 'This card sort works with youth because it does not repeat previous errors in vocational assessments which ask the young to decide what they want to be when they grow up. Instead, it honours them with adult thoughts and asks them to sort through their entire life to date in a non-threatening manner.'

Order from Worklife: Complete Kit (Manual & 2 Sets Cards): C2-1172 ... $53.90 plus $9.90 for postage and packaging Reusable Card Sets: C2-1173 ... $16.50 - i.e. additional sets may be purchased for use with groups.

Contact Paul Stevens at worklife@ozemail.com.au

CareerMastery

CareerMastery at http://www.careermastery.com is a rare gem in career planning and life management on-line self-help. The tuition focus is on enriching your employability and building your career self-resiliency where you currently work. It appeals to those who want a structured way to develop their career action options and to employers who want their staff to apply career self-management to their own development.

CareerMastery 2.0 has been updated, restructured and now provides you the choice of three eLearning training programs. Now catering for the needs of individuals and employers, CareerMastery also facilitates career advisers who want to provide add-on services of value to their clients.

Structure of CareerMastery

• The Complete Career Guide - 3 Courses comprising 16 Modules and 123 Tutorials
• Career Coaching for HRM & Managers - 5 Courses, with 28 Modules and 284 Tutorials
• Win That Job! - 1 Course, with 6 Modules and 63 Tutorials

CareerMastery has over 100 downloadable checklists and worksheets - including the critical templates for compiling your career action step proposals - in PDF and/or Word files.

Packed with functionality, CareerMastery 2.0 comes with many new features and enhancements:

Assessment Instruments: Self-assess your values, preferred skills, audit your primary wants - i.e. your essential work satisfiers - and perceived constraints by completing several on-line inventories.

Off-line/On-line Interactivity: Over 100 Word/PDF downloads allow for your study to continue off-line while you reflect on the new learning and progressively complete the training.

User Friendly: The new design enables easy navigation, as well as having the added functionality of Bookmarks, Favourites and a Notepad.

Private Accessibility: Access from any internet-enabled computer from anywhere in the world by user name and unique password issued to you personally.

Tuition Content: Updated each month for today's fast-paced changes in the world-of-work by the Worklife authorship team.

Monitors Your Progress: CareerMastery enables you to revisit the eLearning Modules many times and monitors how much you have completed in your unique password-protected account.

Corporate Accounts: Sign up on-line and fund access to specific groups of employees or request a quotation for a customised version for all your staff wherever they are located.

Subscribe now for 12 or 24 month access at:

http://www.careermastery.com

Find out more - Take a Tour now!

http://www.careermastery.com/display/help/index.cfm?fuseaction=home

Career Links

http://www.itcareers.acs.org.au/

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Help Your Teen Get a Summer Job

http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2001/04/job.html

What's Happening in Education

EdResearch Online - Journals Indexed - ACER Cunningham Library

http://cunningham.acer.edu.au/dbtw-wpd/sample/journals_edresearch.htm

Database of research documents containing over 11,000 articles freely available as full-text documents.

http://www.acer.edu.au/library/index.html

Copies of the the following reports are available free of charge.

Title: School Innovation: Pathway to the Knowledge Society:WEB copy available at:

School Innovation

Title: Reporting on Student and School Achievement:WEB copy available at:

Reporting

Hard copies of the reports can be ordered free of charge by by email from: paula.blandford@detya.gov.au or by phoning Paula Blandford, DEST (02) 6240 7745.

P. L. Duffy Library

Librarians as Internet Resource Providers

The Internet Advocate

Educator's Reference Desk

The Australian Libraries Gateway

Worldwide Libraries

Australian Academic & Research Libraries

Yahoo List of Libraries

Libweb

Library resources on the Internet

A Journal of Catholic Education

http://soeap.udayton.edu/support/pub2/catholic_ed/cathed.html

Ask a Librarian

http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/

Calendar for Australian Schools: Key Dates for the month http://www.edna.edu.au/noticeboards/noticelist.html?id=1981

Awesome Liabrary

Webs of Knowledge

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/lasie/aug02/lasa4.htm

How to Shut Down a Research Library

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/project2010/colloquium/pdf/lux.pdf

Teacher-Librarian

Peter Milbury's School Library resources

The Children's Literature Web Guide

The Internet Public Library

Great Books

Professional Resources Index

http://www.teachersfirst.com/prof.htm

Netd@ys 2002 - Images of Oz

http://netdays.edna.edu.au/

The Netd@ys 2002 theme is 'Image - watch it, read it, make it'. The Australian Netd@ys 2002 website, created and supported by EdNA Online, provides an ideal opportunity for students to explore the theme by learning about images of Australia, or making and sharing images about Australia, our culture, landscape, and people.

Netd@ys Images of Oz 2002 provides opportunities for students from schools, TAFE and university to create and share images of Oz created by them and others. They can explore ways they can contribute to collective decision-making, effect change and express ideas through images.

There are a host of activities within the Netd@ys 2002 - Images of Oz site to guide and encourage student involvement, including:

• online chat and discussions,
• weekly image challenges,
• submission of student work,
• sharing and discussion of experiences,
• links to key resources.

Netd@ys 2002 starts on 4 November 2002 and finishes on 29 November 2002.