In this Issue: - NCDW on YouTube: the "AusCareerWeek" Channel - Tell us when you see or hear NCDW CSAs and receive cinema vouchers - Event Registrations - Events during the week of celebrations receive additional support - Have you used NCDW resources to inspire your event? - Promoting your event to local media - Free online membership to emPOWER magazine for you, your students, clients, family & friends - Join the NCDW community.                                                                                                              

NCDW on YouTube: the "AusCareerWeek" Channel

National Career Development Week (NCDW) videos have been available for viewing on YouTube for a while now. Our most recent exciting additions are the brand new High Five Videos, so you can now take a sneak peak at the new videos on our YouTube page "AusCareerWeek" before you register an event and receive a copy of your own! A link to the NCDW YouTube page is coming soon to the NCDW website.

Tell us when you see or hear NCDW CSAs and receive cinema vouchers

With NCDW celebration week approaching fast, the NCDW 2010 community service announcement (CSA) campaign will soon commence across regional and national TV and radio networks. Network Ten will exclusively broadcast an exciting new TV CSA for NCDW, featuring Angela Bishop (entertainment reporter) and Mark Furze (actor/ musician), as an ongoing CSA campaign on Priority 1 rotation from 25 April, 2010.

The Wiggles have kindly given us permission again this year to offer to the TV networks the fantastic CSA they produced for us. This has already been scheduled across a variety of Foxtel channels from 16 to 30 May, 2010. NCDW radio CSAs featuring Journalist Steve Liebmann, Blue Wiggle Anthony Field, and a montage of voices, will be heard across metro and regional radio Australia-wide from 15 to 23 May, 2010. 

When you see or hear NCDW CSAs, we'd love to hear from you, and there are cinema vouchers up for grabs for your efforts! Just email the details (including when and where you saw or heard the CSA) to contact_team@ncdw.com.au

Event Registrations

In just over three weeks time, from 17 to 23 May, the national celebrations for National Career Development Week are ON and we've already received nearly 500 fantastic unique event registrations across Australia this year! If you want to join the rapidly increasing numbers of events taking place throughout each year there's no time to delay! Registering your event with NCDW is as easy as completing a simple events registration form on our website.

Events during celebration week receive additional support

All events taking place during the week of 17 to 23 May, 2010 will be eligible to receive additional merchandise and media support from the NCDW Team - so your event has to be registered to receive this additional support.

Have you used NCDW resources to inspire your events?

NCDW factsheets, templates and other resources available from our website can provide inspiration for a wide range of informative and exciting registered events and activities. In this newsletter we place the spotlight on some activities inspired by NCDW resources.

• Why not take a look at the career factsheets on the NCDW website for your next activity?This year NCDW registered event organiser, Helen Fondas, is holding 'Stepping Stones to your future' at Beverley Hills Girls High School. Helen told NCDW, "the title of our career development workshops has been inspired by the worksheets and resources on the NCDW website. There will be a number of similar NCDW inspired workshops and activities throughout the year."
• NCDW event templates provide an easy step-by-step guide to running a career development activity. NCDW encourages event organisers to consider approaching their local library, whether in your school, Uni, or TAFE, or in your local community. We've even provided a template on the website to help you. Registered event organiser of the 'NCDW Information Session' at Shellharbour and West Wollongong TAFE libraries, Glenn Fairweather is doing just that. Glenn told NCDW the many benefits of holding an NCDW event in the library include that "the library is a central point that most students access at some time each week", "libraries are very keen to be involved" and "the library has all the necessary IT requirements to assist students to follow through with their career investigations". Importantly, Glenn adds,

"Often I feel students are too focused only on their course and thus miss opportunities to gain a clearer understanding of their future career path once they complete their course.  Getting students involved in the NCDW activities provides them with the ability to fine-tune their career direction, identify prospective employers and access work experience placements that are so valuable in maximising their future employability."

Don't forget you can also encourage your community's public library to get involved or check out our community event template & case study and extend the same benefits to residents of all ages and career stages.

• NCDW video resources are an exciting way to inspire and motivate attendees at your event. 'Central Coast Career Development Week' is a joint venture by ET Australia and Feeniks Career Guidance, Coaching & Training Services. Says NCDW registered event organiser, Nikki Szabo of Feeniks, we are going to be running the videos - the NCDW media coverage on Channel 10 News on 20 May, 2009, and on Channel 9's 'A Current Affair' program on 13 March, 2009 - over the week. It will be set up in a general area where people are accessing free information and waiting to attend workshops or information."
• If you're an employer why not hold an NCDW activity for your staff? It can be as simple as having an open door policy to staff career development questions during NCDW celebration week like that practiced by NCDW registered event organiser Queensland Police. Or you could register a lunchtime staff development activity like Brightstar Logistics Pty Ltd. Or, like the Australian Taxation Office, you could hold a morning tea NCDW information session about opportunities in your organisation. Centrelink also regularly hold successful NCDW registered career development events for their staff. There's plenty of inspiration on the website for a workplace event, whether it be about opportunities to upgrade skills, the provision of paid time-off for training, subsidised study, in-house training, recognition of acquired skills and new competencies including career progression, leisure opportunities that build skills, Leadership programs, or other wide-ranging training and professional development opportunities within your organisation. Remember the role of employers is not limited to training provision, but more importantly it includes active encouragement of workplace learning!

Promoting your event to local media

Why not invite local media to cover the story of your event? Sometimes the best way you can promote awareness and gain community support for your messages is to engage the interest of your local newspaper or radio station. The most useful resource for local media is a media release, preferably with a list of available photos, focusing on the local interest elements of your event including any interesting stories of people who will attend the event.

If your event takes place during 17 to 23 May, there's no better time to start approaching the media than now ... For more information on how to promote your event check out our event planning resources on the NCDW website. You might also like to take a look at our media releases on the website.

Free online membership to emPOWER magazine for you, your students, clients, family and friends

emPOWER Magazine has all the inspiration and motivation you need to improve your life.  Register in the 'Members Area' online at www.empoweronline.com.au to access the latest issue (and all previous issues). Just enter the promotional code CICA. This offer is valid until 30 June, 2010.

Join the NCDW community

Forward this newsletter to your colleagues, stakeholders, students, clients, family and friends. NCDW online resources are an interactive, regularly updated, and ongoing valuable source of career development information. We also encourage you to follow NCDW on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Career_talking for your career tip of the day.

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