Career Development Resource Package for Careers Education (Victoria)
Overview
This resource package was developed as part of a national project grant to trial elements of the Australian
Blueprint for Career Development. The project was managed by Miles Morgan Australia on behalf of the
Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) on behalf of the Ministerial Council for Education,
Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA).
The South Gippsland Bass Coast Local Learning & Employment Network (SGBCLLEN), in collaboration
with Leongatha Secondary College, successfully applied for the project grant with the aim of trialling the
Career Blueprint against its stand alone careers program, as well as review and develop a comprehensive
careers program that included the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) (Level 6) and the
Managed Individual Pathways (MIPs) Best Practice Framework - both key initiatives of the Victorian
government.
The package provides a career development program that can assist in the delivery of career education for
year 9 & 10 students in Victorian secondary schools.
Using the eleven career competencies of Phase II of the Australian Blueprint for Career Development (the
Blueprint), this resource includes a series of student worksheets that are accompanied by teachers’ notes.
These worksheets are designed to enable students to achieve the competencies necessary to manage their
lives, learning and work.
Contents of the resource
The Blueprint has multiple goals, but the primary aim is to have users work with a national framework of
career competencies to create comprehensive, effective and measurable career development programs
which will help Australians to better manage their lives, learning and work. The content of this trial resource
package is designed to further facilitate the stated aims of the Blueprint, and in particular, move towards
establishing a career development culture within schools.
Re-CaP - Resource for Career Practitioners
Re-Cap was produced by DEST in 2004 as a national career resource to facilitate the development of a
customised quality career service or program. The Re-CaP teachers’ notes and activity sheets have been
adapted and used as the basis of this resource package to align more specifically with the Career Blueprint
career competencies and the VELS and MIPs initiatives.
Mapping of the Blueprint to VELS and MIPs, including MIPs Best Practice Framework
To understand how the Blueprint competencies have been mapped, a table depicting the career
competencies by area and phase against the relevant VELS Level 6 Strands, Domains and Dimensions,
and MIPs objectives has been developed, and follows this introduction.
The MIPs Best Practice Framework has also been included but with a fifth ‘best practice’ element - ‘Career
Development Culture’. This element helps to integrate all the objectives of the Blueprint, VELS and MIPs
initiatives.
Career Competencies by Area
The content of this resource package is arranged to align with the format of the Blueprint.
Career development activities including teachers’ notes and student worksheets adapted from Re-Cap have
been arranged according to the eleven career competencies and are presented on the section tabs in colour
across the three key areas:
RED
BLUE
YELLOW
Area A: Personal Management
Area B: Learning and Work Exploration
Area C: Career Building
Teachers’ Notes and Student Worksheets
Each career competency comes with Teachers’ Notes and includes the following session plan format;
 Outcome
 Rationale
 Task description and Local Standards
 Suggested resources
The Teachers’ Notes also includes a table which indicates the relationship of the Career Blueprint
competency by stage, phase and performance indicator, and the VELS and MIPs aims, and Best Practice
element.
This resource package is designed as a starting point. It has been organised to provide a career
development program that can assist in the delivery of careers education for year 9 & 10 students. The
resource package is also designed to support the demanding role of the careers teacher whether
experienced or new to careers education. The student’s activity sheets and teachers’ notes are a guide
only to delivering the career competencies. It is anticipated that teachers may wish to amend, add to and
change these activities according to their circumstances.
Useful Online Resources
A suggested list of useful online career resources, many of which are referred to in the teachers’ notes and
student worksheets are provided on the links page of the Blueprint website.
Additional Local Standards
In addition to the extension activities and local standards outlined in the teachers’ notes, further local
standards (activities) have been identified to meet both the career competency and performance indicator.