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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 […]
January 29, 2025
Career Industry Council of Australia Backs Call for Career Practitioners in Every Secondary School
The Career Industry Council of Australia (CICA), the national peak body representing the career development profession, strongly backs the recent call for career practitioners in every secondary school to tackle the nation’s growing skills shortage and prepare young Australians for the future workforce. The CEO of the Business Council, Bran Black, highlighted the urgent need […]
January 16, 2025
The Future of Jobs Report 2025 – World Economic Forum
Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts and the green transition – individually and in combination are among the major drivers expected to shape and transform the global labour market by 2030. The Future of Jobs Report 2025 brings together the perspective of over 1,000 leading global employers—collectively representing more than 14 million workers across 22 industry […]
