• 1: Home
• 2: About this project
  • 2.1: Principles
  • 2.2: Model
• 3: Career Development Learning
  • 3.1: Career Development Learning educational outcomes
• 4: Universities
  • 4.1: Case Studies
  • 4.2: Principles
  • 4.3: Tools
• 5: Employers
  • 5.1: Employers Getting Ready
  • 5.2: Employers Good Practice
  • 5.3: Employers Tools
• 6: Students
  • 6.1: What is Career Development?
  • 6.2: Work experience and your career development
  • 6.3: What is a good workplace experience?
  • 6.4: Getting ready
  • 6.5: Students Tools
• 7: Resources
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Career Development Learning

To best use the resources in this website you will need a clear understanding of what is a Career/Career Development/Career Development Learning and what are the different types of workplace experiences.

What is a Career?

“The lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure and transitions in order to move towards a personally determined and evolving future”   (The Professional Standards for Australian Career Practitioners definition (Career Industry Council of Australia 2006).

Career Development

 The process of interpreting and managing our: individual learning, transitions, work and leisure to determine our own career futures.
(Adapted from Career Industry Council of Australia, OECD, 2004; Patton & McMahon 2006)

Career Development Learning

Career Development Learning integrates these work related learning experiences further assisting students develop knowledge, attributes, understanding and awareness in relation to:

1. Self-awareness (the ability to identify and articulate motivations, skills and personality as they affect career plans)
2. Opportunity awareness (knowledge of opportunities and how to research these)
3. Decision Making (being able to weigh up personal factors to make a sound plan)
4. Transition learning (understanding how to seek and secure opportunities)

Careers Education Benchmark Statement, Executive Summary - Link

Career Development Learning educational outcomes

Workplace experiences

Workplace experience is learning resulting from participation in a workplace or community setting.  It is also known as Work Integrated Learning. 

Work Integrated Learning

All Australian universities provide work-integrated learning in many of their academic programs. Whether this is an Internship, work experience, practicum, practical placement, industry based project, vacation work or mentoring; this work related learning involves students applying their discipline knowledge and reflecting upon the experience, learning about themselves and the world-of-work in order to empower them to enter and succeed in the world-of-work and their wider lives.

Work related learning can occur in activities inside and outside of the curriculum and outside of the University itself through students own part time employment, vacation work, voluntary work, work experience  and extra curricular activities.  Students learn from their work related learning experiences – wherever they occur.  (Moreland, 2005)

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