My Guide helps you explore and plan your career direction using a series of articles and activities.

This is a personalised service. So that you can make the best use of it, your sessions will be saved, so you’ll need to provide some details and create a login name and password. These details are kept private and not used for any other purpose—view our privacy statement for details. If at any time you wish to change your details, click on your user name, which displays at the top right of every page of My Guide. This will take you to the Change My Details menu, where you can choose which details you wish to change: your password, your life stage or your personal details. You can also choose to remove your myfuture account.

My Guide services

My Guide presents articles and activities in a series of steps towards your desired career:

• Preparing/Reviewing helps you lay the groundwork.
• Identifying familiarises you with your own interests, skills, values, knowledge and aspirations, and helps you define the work conditions, work locations, life balance and education you want.
• Exploring helps you brainstorm career ideas, ways of working and learning.
• Deciding helps you choose among different career fields and occupations you’re interested in.
• Summarising helps you pull together results, identify themes and patterns in your thinking and make the ultimate decision about your career direction.
• Planning involves setting and monitoring goals and actions to move you forward.
• Doing guides you as you implement your career plans.

Preparing/Reviewing

Prepare to move forward with these articles:

• What is a career?—explores modern concepts of career
• Why do people work?—examines the importance and value of work
• Career development—talks about the factors and processes that influence your career
• Changing your career direction—looks at the reasons you want to change and the likely impact of career changes you might make
• Returning to work after an absence—presents strategies and information on re-entering the workforce after a long-term break from work.

Identifying

Develop a personal myfuture profile with these guided activities. myfuture uses this profile to generate career ideas to suit your specific needs. In this section you can identify your: 

• interests
• current and developing skills, and skills you enjoy using
• current and developing knowledge, and learning experiences you enjoy
• current and planned education
• values
• favoured locations for work or study
• aspirations
• preferred life balance
• preferred work conditions.

These areas are explored where they are appropriate to your age or life stage.

Ways of learning

Read articles on:

• School subject choice—examines the impact of subject choice.
• Get an Australian apprenticeship—introduces you to apprenticeship training in Australia.

Deciding

Narrow your choices down to your favourites, then decide between them, using these activities and resources:

• Compare your favourites with your values and with your current job, if you have one.
• Prioritise your chosen careers—which are really your favourites?
• Look at industries, occupations, vacancies, courses, contacts and articles related to your favourite careers.

Summarising

Bring together everything you’ve worked through in the previous sections using these three steps:

1. My summary—a summary sheet containing key results from your personal profile and career favourites
2. My comments—a series of questions that helps you reflect on your results and identify patterns and themes
3. My direction—an activity that prompts you to summarise, in one or two key statements, the direction you want your career to take.

Planning

Plan your career direction. You can:

• research career pathways
• create a plan for progressing in your career direction
• set goals related to different areas of your life

Use this section of the website to monitor your progress towards the goals you set.