Career Bites 2025

Targeted at new and experienced careers and transition advisers and educational support staff.

Tune in every Wednesday from 3.30pm - 4.00pm, in weeks 3 and 9 each term. Join the Careers and Transition Advisers Statewide StaffroomExternal link to participate in this short, sharp professional learning.

Location: Professional Learning and Meetings channel, Careers and Transition Adviser State Wide StaffroomExternal link

Targeted at new and experienced careers and transition advisers and educational support staff.

Terms 1, 2 and 3 annually.

*Registering for Careers Adviser 301 Professional Learning Modules 1,2,3 will provide participants access to the resources developed in 2024. Completion of each Module will be self-paced. Participants will be sent a Microsoft Teams meeting link in Outlook to attend a 2-hour online reflective session, on Thursday 18 September 2025, from 2.00pm-4.00pm. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss any of the topics presented in CA301PL.

Professional learning with Dr Michael Healy – myfuture.edu.au

Join Dr Michael Healy, National Career Education Manager at myfuture.edu.au, for a series of professional learning sessions designed to support careers advisers in delivering inclusive and effective career education.

These sessions explore practical frameworks, community partnerships, and targeted strategies to help students navigate meaningful post-school pathways.

Supporting the career learning of students with disabilities

In this professional learning session, Dr Michael Healy, National Career Education Manager of myfuture.edu.au, will share some practical principles that can help you support students with disability in their career learning. He will begin by describing two essential career development frameworks that can help structure your services to students with disability: the Systems Theory Framework of Career Development and Decent Work. Michael will then discuss the importance of connected communities in career education for students with disability. Finally, he will share advice and resources, and facilitate discussion, that will help you support your students to reflect on their aspirations and goals for meaningful work as well as their needs for support and accommodations in study and work.

Career education for students from refugee and migrant backgrounds

Details to be confirmed

About Michael Healy

National Careers Education ManagerEducation Services Australia

Dr. Michael Healy is the National Career Education Manager at myfuture.edu.au Australia’s national career education platform. He a recognised leader in the field of career development and employability. An award-winning educator and researcher, his work focuses on promoting effective and accessible careers and employability learning in schools, further education, and community services. Michael combines scholarly knowledge with practical insights gained from his 15 years of professional experience, PhD in career education, and research publications.

Transition Support Training

Transition support training, delivered over two days, is for any member of the school staff who works with identified groups of students to ensure smooth transitions through and out of school into work, further education or training.

Registration for Transition Support Training will be promoted via the Careers and Transition Advisers Statewide StaffroomExternal link and staff noticeboard. Additional Transition Support Training details can also be found on the Transition Support Training page.

Transition Adviser Training

A school transition adviser plays a crucial role in guiding students during their high school years as they prepare for life beyond the classroom.

Working closely with the careers adviser, transition advisers actively work to engage and retain students. They encourage students to participate in career exploration, skill development, and planning for their future.

Registration for Transition Adviser Training delivered over three days will be promoted via the Careers and Transition Advisers Statewide StaffroomExternal link and staff noticeboard. Additional Transition Adviser Training details can also be found on the Transition Adviser Training page. Applicants must be a teacher to be eligible for training.

Tailored professional learning is crucial for careers advisers who are tasked with assisting Aboriginal students, high potential and gifted (HPGE) students, students with disabilities, and those who speak English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D). These students face unique challenges in their educational and career journeys, and it is essential that their careers advisers have the necessary knowledge and skills to support them effectively.

Registration for tailored professional learning will be promoted via the Careers and Transition Advisers Statewide StaffroomExternal link and staff noticeboard. Additional Transition Adviser Training details can also be found on the Careers and professional learning page.

Inclusive transition strategies for students with disability

Inspiring Pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students

NOTE: This professional learning is ONLY for careers advisers. Transition advisers will also be considered if there is capacity. Places are limited to 50 participants.

Inclusive strategies to support students from refugee backgrounds