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Upgrade your career development skills and qualifications:
Certificate IV materials now launched online
Australia ’s first Certificate IV in Career Development was finalised late last year and is being offered by RTOs across the country.
Work on the learning guides to support sixteen specified units of the Certificate IV began in October 2007. A team of Australia’s leading career development experts selected nine elective subjects, clustered the seven compulsory units, and has monitored the writing of a total of seven guides. The Certificate IV learning guides are now available as free downloads from www.career.edu.au. A limited number of CD-ROMs of the guides will also be available while stocks last.
The Certificate IV in Career Development has been included in the Productivity Places Program (PPP), which provides new training places in industries experiencing skills shortages.
Support materials for the fore-runner of the Certificate IV, Australian Career Development Studies (ACDS), will continue to be freely available from the website. Visit www.career.edu.au for more information and to download the learning guides.
Finding Your Passion
In an edited extract of a speech in The Australian, July 29 2008, Condoleezza Rice, the first female secretary of state of the US, has some succinct career advice. She advises students at Perth’s Mercedes College to find their passion, to figure out what they really love to do and then to do it well. Her advice is to explore everything before them and to reject limits imposed on particular groups. It doesn’t matter where you came from. It matters where you are going. Read more at
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au
2009 myfuture Student Video Competition
The 2009 myfuture Student Video Competition is now open. Entries close 30 September 2009.
Click here to view the myfuture Student Video Competition information page
New Parent Articles
Are you an assister? Then why not check out our new Parent Articles section! Within our new Assist Others section of myfuture you will find some great new career ideas to research and explore. Our new Career Development Today, Support your Child and Activities tabs contain a wealth of information for those who are helping a friend, child or family member exploring or choosing a new career path.
The Revised Professional Standards for Australian Career Development Practitioners: Ensuring Quality of Career Development Practice and Services
The Revised Professional Standards for Australian Career Development Practitioners (2007) will provide Australians with assurance that career development services provided by CICA members are supported by published ethical and professional standards and fully implemented by 2012. A complete pdf version of the document, supporting CICA Policy and Procedure Statements on professional qualifications and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) are now available on the CICA website at www.cica.org.au
The main change to be found in the revised standards 2007 booklet is in Section 4: Entry level qualifications, where the original 4 categories concerning qualifications of practitioners have been consolidated into two - Professional and Associate.
