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Within the myriad of current career development initiatives, projects
and reports being celebrated, the following links have a focus on work
experience.
Resources
Australian Blueprint for Career Development
– Career Competencies - [.doc | 55.5 kb]
The Blueprint introduces 11 career competencies, each with a set of
performance indicators and grouped into three interconnected key areas
– personal management, learning and work exploration, and career
building. There are four developmental phases ensuring that the career
competencies are relevant across a whole lifespan.
Employability Skills
for the Future - Matrix - [.doc | 51 kb]
The matrix is a quick guide to the personal attributes and skills
that aid individual employability in the market place. They also reflect
the attributes and skills required by business to achieve strategic
goals. Note: This matrix has been developed from the Employability Skills
for the Future project.
Australian
Blueprint for Career Development (ABCD)
The Blueprint is very relevant to work experience. It has a focus
on the broad range of skills, attitudes and experiences that contribute
to a fulfilled life of learning and working as well as the more traditional
career and employment focus of career development.
Report : Employability Skills
Illustration (UK)
Twenty two profiles have been designed to better illustrate to students
and graduates the employability skills gained from their studied subjects.
Useful when linking to work experience preferences and filling gaps.
By Peter Forbes and Bianca Kubler.
Report
About Work Placement for ICT in Schools
The development of 12 ICT Work Placement Models for VET in Schools
and a tool kit to assist with the implementation of the models will
be of assistance to all providers of VET ITC programs.
Report Managing
and sustaining the APS workforce
The Australian Public Service (APS) faces a challenge in attracting
and retaining skilled and talented staff in an employment environment
very different to that of the past. In this new environment, agencies
will need to adopt strategic and dynamic approaches to managing and
sustaining the APS workforce, taking account of its increasingly diverse
career paths and aspirations.
Report: Have
school vocational education and training programs been successful?
School vocational education and training (VET) programs were introduced
to provide more diverse pathways to work and further study for young
people. This report investigates whether these programs provide successful
outcomes for participants, in terms of retention to Year 12 (or its
vocational equivalent) and full-time engagement with employment or learning.
Report:
Employability Skills for the Future Project
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Business Council
of Australia undertook this research project to provide the Department
of Education, Science and Training with a detailed understanding of
the employability skills needs of industry.
Employers involved in the study indicated that they placed a particular
emphasis on trying to assess attributes and skills during the selection
process when recruiting new employees. A resource used for this assessment
included work experience reports and placement experiences.
Report:
Family and work: the family’s perspective
This research aimed to explore the way that children experience family
life across a range of circumstances, with particular emphasis on their
perceptions of the impact of the employment choices - or imperatives
- of their parents on their lives.
Report: How
workplace experiences while at school affect career pathways
How experiences with the workplace while at school affect young people
after leaving school is the subject of this report. The experiences
include those gained through work experience, school-based New Apprenticeships,
part-time work and vocational placements in VET in Schools programs.
Report:
School Students Learning from their Paid and Unpaid Work
This project examines different ways in which young people still at
school experience workplaces through paid work, vocational placements
and work experience. The study is based on a survey of students in Years
10, 11 and 12 in 13 schools in NSW and SA.
Report:
School Students Views on their Working and Learning in the Workplace
The project was designed to find out the extent and learning outcomes
of school students’ engagement with workplaces. The focus was
primarily on work experience, paid part-time work and structured work
placements.
Report:
What makes vocational training programs in schools work?
Paper examines the objectives and expected outcomes for students, school
VET coordinators, trainers and employers. The research finds considerable
diversity in implementation at the local level, while at the broad level
the two main objectives of facilitating transition between school and
work and providing a highly skilled workforce are common for all stakeholders.
Report:
Workforce Tomorrow Book
Scroll down through this link to access a report (released in November
2005) showing that Australia faces a potential shortfall of 195,000
workers in five years’ time as a result of population ageing.
That is, while employment is expected to continue to grow at a solid
pace over the next five years, it is likely to be substantially less
than it could be if the age structure of the adult population were to
have remained unchanged.
Resource:
Enhancing career development The role of community-based career guidance
for disengaged adults
Work experience is accepted as an important part of assisting young
people in their transition from school. It should not stop there and
is likely to be a particularly effective learning strategy for people
who are reluctant to use printed resources or to attend traditional
classroom orientation courses.
Australian:
Children at Work
In the first Australian study of its kind, the Commission surveyed 11,000
high school students in years 7 to 10 about their experiences at work.
Australian: Fully On-the-Job Training experiences and steps ahead
Regular contact and a good relationship between not only the employer
and the registered training organisation (where the employer is not
a registered training organisation), and also between the registered
organisation and the trainee, were identified by both parties as essential
components of effective fully on-the-job training.
Australian:
Young Visions 2003
This report contains an examination of the experiences of school leavers
in employment, including apprentices and trainees, and those who are
working (either full-time or in part-time/casual jobs.
Australian:
National Professional Standards for Career Development
The Professional Standards for Australian Career Development Practitioners
describe, for the first time in Australia, agreed terminology, membership
of the career development profession, a code of ethics, entry-level
qualifications, continuing professional development, and competency
guidelines. From 1 January 2012, the standards will be regarded as the
minimum required by Australian career development practitioners. The
Professional Standards was launched at the AACC conference 18-21 April
2006 in Sydney.
Australian:
Regional Development through School - Industry Partnerships Project
45 Victorian and South Australian government secondary colleges, in
partnerships with industry and community groups developed curriculum,
resources and programs in relation to the key competencies and enterprise
education. This portal provides the results of the project relating
to key competencies and work related skills. http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/rdsip/workrs/workexp.htm
Australian:
The Hudson Report - Employment and HR Trends
“An IT employer has … developed a simple framework and have
revised their recruitment, selection and promotion practices to measure
the potential of new recruits, manage the career of the existing staff
and promote on more than just technical skills”.
Career
Guidance and Advice for Indigenous Students
Career development programs that support Indigenous students require
a special emphasis on the major transition periods and include mentoring
programs and the use of local role models, work experience /placement
and community partnerships.
International
resource: UK Employer Perspectives
The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services in the UK has
a wealth of information related to university level students including
workplace skill based projects, best practice and recruitment strategies.
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