Get Going

  1. Run an event or attend an event during National Career Development Week.
    You’ll find a , plus information, merchandise, resources and ideas to help you run an event or find out where NCDW activities are being held. Don’t forget to enter your own activities in the calendar!
  2. Volunteer
    Discover your Local Community Partnership (http://transitdirectory.dest.gov.au/Search.aspx) and volunteer to assist them, or other organisations, with local National Career Development Week events.
  3. Contribute
    Encourage your workplace, school or organisation to get involved by running a National Career Development Week event. There are lots of ideas in the Event Kit.
  4. Spread the word
    Visit internet sites of your professional, industry and technical organisations – if they don’t mention National Career Development Week, provide ideas for activities and suggest they provide a link from their site to http://www.nationalcareerdevelopmentweek.com.au/.
    Spread the word and share the site with your family, friends and work colleagues via our online Tell a Friend form.
  5. Start Learning
    Learn more about career development by taking the free online course at http://www.career.edu.au/. This is designed for career practitioners, parents, youth workers, coaches and community leaders and others with an interest in helping others with education and employment choices.
  6. Keep Learning
    Talk to your friends, family and colleagues about their careers. Consider how careers have changed over time and how everything you do contributes to your skills, knowledge and attitudes. You could learn something about your friends that you don’t know!
  7. Teach others
    Have your son or daughter shadow you at work for a day (with your employers permission). You could also write to your local newspaper, radio station or Chamber of Commerce, and offer to speak about the importance of career development.
  8. Update your own skills and book yourself some Professional Development
  9. Check whether you meet the Professional Standards
  10. Join a CICA Association
  11. Check out the Blueprint and 11 competencies for Career Development (DEEWR)
  12. Check out the Guidelines for Services & information (CICA)
  13. Run a competition to engage active learning
  14. Provide more help around choosing the right course or area of work
  15. Organise an employers careers activity at your school using parents and other members of your community
  16. Participate and have fun. Get excited! Get involved! Get results!