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3.9 Using the Blueprint with Adults in Particular Settings and
Circumstances
3.9.1 Using the Blueprint with Tertiary Students
The provision of career development learning opportunities for tertiary students has
traditionally been the domain of the university careers service. Career development
learning opportunities are often provided in the form of workshops, focusing on specific
skills such as resume writing and addressing selection criteria, career expos held on campus
and one-on-one counselling sessions. This type of service provision tends to isolate career
development learning from other learning areas on campus and relies on students
themselves to recognise the need to incorporate career development competencies into
their learning.
The Blueprint provides a framework that can be used to explore other ways to facilitate
students’ career management competencies. The Blueprint can also be used to engender a
career development culture more broadly, to ensure all students have access to career
development learning opportunities and to make explicit those opportunities that already
exist.
1. The Career Service at the University of Technology, Sydney, used the Blueprint to
develop a career research module designed to be included within a first year
subject in any learning area. The module was implemented with first-year students
(BA Organisational Learning and Environmental Science) as an online element of
one of their first-year subjects. The integration of the career research module into
first-year subjects meant non-careers service staff were involved in the career
development learning of their students, explicitly at least, for the first time.
2. Working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) international tertiary
students, Career Kaleidoscope, a coaching and counselling service, further
developed their career development programs to enable international graduates
to more easily adapt to employment in Australia and to make the most of the
opportunities available at the completion of their studies.
This agency mapped their existing programs against the Blueprint framework and
performed a needs assessment with students to identify the career competencies
they should focus on. This information was then used to refresh and expand the
curriculum.
For more information on how these organisations used the Blueprint to develop their
programs go to the case study section of the Blueprint Toolkit.
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