Issues facing educators and students when it comes to career, course and institution choice.
In a rapidly evolving world, many promising career paths remain hidden from students and their parents. These careers may not make headlines but play vital roles in our global economy. They are avenues where passion meets purpose and allow individuals to truly make a mark. Unfortunately, parents and traditional career counselling often gravitate towards conventional…
The rapid advancements in technology are revolutionising the job market, leading to the emergence of new careers while rendering some traditional jobs obsolete. However, despite the clear evidence of the impending impact of automation on the job market, many students still select careers that are likely to be redundant in the future. One possible explanation…
After completing a MyCareerMatch assessment, Careers Advisers can conduct classroom activities to help students identify their personality type and understand how each personality type solves specific problems. Here are some activities that can be helpful: Case study analysis: Provide students with case studies that require them to solve problems in different scenarios. Then, ask them…
The MyCareerMatch personality assessment tool is designed to help individuals identify their personality types and how they relate to different career paths. By understanding their personality types, individuals can make more informed career choices that align with their natural strengths and interests. The Driver personality type, for example, is well-suited to careers that require assertiveness…
ChatGPT is big news. For years we’ve been waiting on AI to significantly impact the way we do things, solve problems, help us learn. Now its available all the focus is on how students will use it to cheat. Stopping students using the service is a short term knee jerk reaction to how we deal…
Kids only put up their hands in high school for two reasons – to ask for the bathroom and to say ‘when am I ever going to need to use this’. UK schools are proving that career advice is not the domain of careers advisors but includes teachers. Teachers have the greatest in-school impact on…
Australians lack awareness about what technology jobs exist or how to get into them, according to a new roadmap to solving the sector’s hungry for more workers. An outstanding report prepared by The Tech Council of Australia , Accenture and Digital Skills Organisation titled Delivering 1.2 million jobs – “A roadmap to create a thriving…
When it comes to planning out future career aspirations and dreams, we know that a critical point in young peoples’ lives is when subject selection and study pathway decisions are made at secondary school. So, what if they don’t receive the right advice or no advice at all? The findings of a recent NCSEHE-funded study…
Thousands of first-year university students drop out each year. While it has traditionally been the responsibility of high schools to help young people explore their further education options, universities also have a role to play in educating future students at the high school level in order to increase retention rates and ensure young people benefit from their university experience.
There’s evidence to support the proposition that people with the same personality type tend to cluster in similar occupations.