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Career Coaching for School Students
In my work in career coaching for school age students I am having to keep well informed about the changes in education and training. The world of work is very different to when I was a school student. My father worked for two organisations across his work life. Now: our children finish school and have […]
Life Coach or Career Coach
Can a life coach help you if they are not a qualified career coach? According to Michael Cavanagh, clinical psychologist, executive coach and deputy director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at the University of Sydney, life is highly individualised. Social networks aren’t so strong as they used to be. Plus, your career is your responsibility […]
Millennials and job security
For Millennials job security is one of the top two priorities in life. Job security is proving to be a major preoccupation for Millennials, because young adults are aware of uncertainty in all professions. In a longitudinal study carried out for the Youth Research Centre, 500 Millennials responded to questions about job security. Co-author Hernan […]
VCE English Exam
The VCE English exam is all done for 2017. Well done, year 12s! I hope you’re feeling proud of yourselves for completing your studies and relieved that the exam period has finally begun. Getting the English exam out of the way is fantastic. It’s the one exam that all year 12s have to sit, and […]
Stress and Anxiety in Year 12
In my career coaching practice I see many year 12 students who are experiencing stress and anxiety. This is not a reflection upon 2017 clients – stress and anxiety has been a common theme for clients of all ages throughout my years as a private career coach. What is concerning for me as a career […]
What are STEM subjects and Soft Skills?
What are STEM subjects and Soft skills? These are the buzz words being used in careers. Everyone is talking about STEM subjects and soft skills, etc – the trouble is, do we know what these are and why they are related? Also, do we know how to communicate them to a prospective employer, or recruiter? […]
Should you accept an internship?
I have been asked by parents and students, “should you accept an internship?” many times over the past few years. Internships are being used as training grounds by many organisations, and many young adults and their parents are concerned about the fairness of these schemes. The reality is that internships are a fact of working […]
Unemployment is humiliating. Parents fear their children missing out on jobs.
Unemployment and underemployment is humiliating in a consumer society. These were the wise words of Zigmunt Bauman. Bauman wrote of our fear of losing a step on the ladder to middle-class, and it is fair to say that many parents are in real fear for their children because of Foundation for Young Australians statistics on […]
Parents worry their kids will be worse off than they are.
Are you one of the 7 in 10 parents who worries that their kids will be worse off than they are? That’s 70% of you! According to journalist Eryk Bagshaw, “we’re a miserable lot” in Australia. More pessimistic than many other nationalities, with “negative sentiment (surging) by 16% in the past 4 years”.(Bagshaw, 2017, The […]