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Interactive Careers Games and Quizes
Interactive Careers Games and Quizes
FUTURE QUEST: In Future Quest, you’ll investigate your interests, skills and values to help gain insight into potential career options, plus you’ll interact with a host of characters who’ll give you challenges and career advice. https://www.campusquest.com.au/
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Skills Road Career Quiz Create a free account using your email and a password and complete this fun interactive quiz
Myfuture Career Profile This interactive career tool will help students to identify their interests, values and skills and will provide them with a list of suggested occupations to get the career conversations started.
See which careers could be part of your big tomorrow.My Big Tomorrow
My Big Tomorrow is an initiative of the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education at the University of Newcastle.The STARportal makes the connections that inspire young people to explore, discover, and create by offering the most comprehensive collection of STEM activities and providers, https://bit.ly/34ALswx
Who wants to be an engineer?
Do you prefer building bridges or creating engines? Who has more fun – a civil engineer or an aerospace engineer? Bring together skills and knowledge with a degree at RMIT. Play this game to find out what type of engineering you’d be best suited to, and about student life at RMIT, https://bit.ly/2MVJrDK
School to Work Pathway Infographics
Free careers program
Free careers program
Are you keen to explore your career options?
Being able to manage your career development is an important attribute to have and one that you will work on continuously throughout your life.
This involves:
· being resourceful – speaking to family members and friends about your goals and passions and getting feedback about your strengths and personality
· meeting with your career adviser to explore your options and to get tools and resources
· analysing and mapping your values, skills, strengths, passions, favourite subjects, hobbies and interests
· actively researching your areas of interest, setting goals and developing/updating action plans
This can feel a bit overwhelming – where do you start? When do you start? Who should you speak to first?
Sometimes it can feel like everyone around you knows what they want to do when they leave school and this can feel isolating, but don’t worry.
The important thing to know is that you just have to start somewhere.
There are many career websites and programs you can explore. One that you may enjoy doing is the Get Ready to Reset program.
This has been developed by SkillsRoad – the best thing about the program is that you can choose which activities to do. There are 6 categories:
Get your head right
· 6 tips to get your life back on track
· 5 ways to deal with negative thoughts
· How to become resilient
· What to do when your motivation is gone
Discover your options
· A day in the life of....
· Discover your skills and strengths
· Get to know how work ready you are
· Explore careers and your study pathways
Make a plan
· How to make good decisions
· How to create goals and keep focused on them
· Why creativity can make your life better
· How to stop procrastinating
Personal Branding
· How to develop your skills and get work experience
· How to write your first resumé
· What's a good cover letter?
· Manners for chatting on the phone/zoom
Career Progression
· How to deal with conflict productively
· Five ways to deal with negative thoughts
· How to be fearless at work (and life!)
· Are you future ready? Build the right skills
To access the program, visit www.skillsroad.com.au/ready-to-reset
Share the work you complete with your family and your career adviser – they will be able to assist you, give you feedback and also encouragement. Have fun!
What is career?
What is career?
Are you one of the many people who confuse the term 'career' with an occupation or job?
Your career is the variety of experiences that you have undertaken throughout your life – the continuous process of learning and development that includes both paid and unpaid experiences.
Rapid changes in information and communication technologies, increasing globalisation and greater competition all affect careers. With jobs always changing, you now need to keep learning throughout your life and to take charge of your own future. You have an active role to play in building your career.
You'll need to:
take responsibility for your own direction and growth
know who you are and what your goals are
train yourself to learn new sets of skills
learn to see and understand the patterns in the working world and future work trends.
10 Steps to Building Your Career ( Myfuture)
10 Steps to Building Your Career ( Myfuture)
Building your career
As you gain more experience in the world of work and undertake a variety of life experiences, you are building your career. Here are ten influences that you should consider as you build your career. They will all look impressive on your CV!
1. Work experience and volunteer work
Work experience and volunteer work are good opportunities to develop skills and networks and to decide what you would like to do. Work experience gives you time at a workplace to learn about an occupation or industry, as you observe others or complete tasks.
2. Community involvement
Community involvement gives you opportunities to network and gain valuable skills, knowledge and experience. Your community is made up of lots of different groups of people, such as school councils and communities, youth organisations and volunteer groups.
3. Employment
Draw upon your employment history as evidence to a potential employer that you're the person for the job.
4. Life roles
All your different roles in life involve developing or enhancing skills that you can transfer from one relationship or association to another. Many of these skills can become useful in paid work, even if we learn them through a friendship, or through involvement in community work.
5. Enterprise activities
An enterprise is an activity or project that produces services or products. A business enterprise runs to make a profit and a social enterprise provides services to individuals and/or groups in the community.
6. Cultural activities
Culture is what gives groups of people a collective identity. It involves customs, beliefs and values, ways of behaving, and the objects and artefacts people make. Many aspects of your life, including your career, can be enriched if you take part in cultural activities.
7. Training
Training activities upgrade your skills, develop your knowledge and maintain your levels of competency. Training can be formal, resulting in a qualification upon completion or it can be non-formal, adding to your general skill base without giving you a qualification.
8. Education
Education is part of your lifelong learning process. Your career will probably involve a combination of formal and informal education. Formal education refers to programs provided by the three sectors of the Australian education and training system: schools, vocational education and training and higher education. Non-formal education refers to all other deliberate forms of learning. It can play a vital role in your career. It allows you to demonstrate commitment to, and interest in, a particular subject, and it keeps you up to date on the latest concepts and practices in your career field.
9. Interests
Understanding the common features of your different interests can help you choose an occupation or a course of study. Having a wide range of interests will add another dimension to your resume and employers like to see that you have enjoyed real life experiences in different settings and circumstances.
10. Sport and leisure activities
Being involved in sport and leisure activities can give you a wide range of skills, experiences and abilities that are highly valued in the workplace. Make sure you let potential employers know about them.
These are just ten examples of influences that affect your career. If you're in the early stages of career development, buckle up and enjoy the journey as each day will be an enjoyable ride.
Resources for the class room
Resources for the class room
Designed as a series of activities, My Career Exploration will give Year 7 and 8 students learning experiences in and beyond the classroom so they can find out more about themselves and the exciting world of work.
Skills Road Downloadable Resources for Teachers - Career Planning
You can encourage your students to register for free and take advantage of the following applications and resources:
Career Quiz – our brand new mobile and tablet-friendly Career Quiz app, designed by our consulting psychologist, generates a personalised personality profile and career recommendations report based on the results, to help guide students on potential career opportunities.
Explore Careers – students can explore information and videos on over 350 careers, including long term career projections and earning potential.
Resumé Templates – job seekers can access our free resumé templates to build a resumé step-by-step and then leave the formatting to us! You can even download cover letter templates to assist with the job application process.
Apply For Jobs – get tips and pointers to guide students through the job application process. We also have a list of entry-level jobs across a variety of industries.
Developed by The Foundation for Young Australians, WOW stands for Worlds of Work. It’s a careers education resource for all teachers of secondary students that does things differently. It seeks to connect all Australian secondary school students with life beyond school through their own investigation into what it takes to succeed in the world of work. Here’s the kicker: while students learn about the world of work they’ll actively develop and reflect on the skills and aptitudes required to succeed in it. WOW also engages parents and carers so that they have the knowledge and understanding required to support their child in the transition beyond school so that Australian kids have the best chance to succeed in life and work.
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