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May 21, 2025🚨 The State of Global Teenage Career Preparation: New OECD Report Raises Red Flags
A major international study reveals that one in three teens is unclear about their future careers, and many aspire to roles that don’t reflect actual labour market demand. In Australia, 66% of students expect to work in high-status professional jobs, but few get the career guidance, information, and experiences needed to make those goals a reality. […]
May 20, 2025
OECD Release New Report – The State of Global Teenage Career Preparation
A new OECD report on student career readiness finds that too many young people are navigating their futures without enough support. The report shows that students across OECD countries are now expressing very high levels of career uncertainty and confusion. Job expectations have changed little since 2000 and bear little relationship to actual patterns of […]
May 19, 2025
🛠️ National Careers Week 2025 Wraps Up: A Celebration of Purpose, Possibility & Pathways 🚀
National Careers Week 2025 has officially ended, marking another extraordinary celebration of career development, opportunity, and lifelong learning across the country. With the theme “Future Frontiers: Navigating New Career Pathways,” the week-long initiative engaged Australians at every stage of life—school students, early career starters, career changers, job seekers, and those navigating their next chapter in […]
March 28, 2025
Good adult career guidance
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation has just published a new report on Good adult career guidance. The report emphasises that public employment services are a critical element of the provision of adult guidance services, and suggests that they should move beyond helping people who are unemployed find work, towards the provision of universal career guidance services. […]
March 27, 2025
Removing the National Careers Institute Risks Setting Back Workforce Reform
đź“Ł Australia risks losing critical ground in workforce reform. The Career Industry Council of Australia (CICA) expresses deep disappointment at the decision to discontinue funding for the National Careers Institute (NCI). The NCI has played a pivotal role in shaping innovative, evidence-informed, and inclusive approaches across education, skills development, and employment policy. From supporting school […]
