This blog introduces an update to the information, resources and links to support the career development of school staff.

Exploring your career interests may be a useful starting place for considering your next career move. There are several techniques that career practitioners use to help individuals explore their interests. One commonly used technique is to complete a career interest test.

I attended a Roundtable presentation by Professor Richard Lapan, and Associate Professor Tim Poynton, University of Massachusetts who reported the findings of their research into personal, behavioural and environmental factors that predict successful transitions from secondary education to university or college.

If you are unclear about your initial career preferences it can be difficult to make decisions now that can affect the initial career options that will be open to you. For example, without a career idea in mind, it can be difficult to know what course to apply for, let alone the order of preference of courses that are within your reach.

Many young people and their parents or guardians wonder about the benefits of taking a gap break at the end of secondary school versus the linear progression from school to further study or formal employment.

For those of you who are thinking of a medical or health career it is important to research occupations and related courses that you are considering as career possibilities and to find out what they are really like.

This month’s blog discusses life balance and gives tips and external links to practical strategies to enhance life balance, and particularly the impact of work on life balance.

Undergraduate medical and health science are some of the most difficult courses to gain entry into after Year 12. Register for UMAT 2016 now!

The end of the academic year is often a useful time to run career development programmes and activities for all students, but perhaps especially for students who are seeking part-time or casual employment over the holiday period.

This blog is intended to help current Year 12 students who are now implementing their post-school education options, secondary students in Years 10 and 11 who are making elective subject choices, past school students and school staff members who may be considering an undergraduate or postgraduate degree or a short professional development course.