South Australia Works: CareersSA

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South Australia Works CareersSA

• Proposal for Delivering High Quality Career
  Development Services for South Australia
• Ian Buchanan
• Principal Policy Officer, Industry Skills
  Development Directorate

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• Why are career development services needed?
• Policy drivers
• The demand for labour and skills
• To support people to make successful transitions
  to further learning, training or employment
• To support people who are disengaged at risk of
  disengagement from learning, training and work
• To support those wishing to return to the
  workforce
• To support individuals to become more employable
  by increasing their employability

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• A career is a process of choosing the variety of
  work, life, learning and leisure roles a person
  undertakes over the course of their lifetime.
• Career development is the process of deciding how
  those choices are made.
• Whilst a great many people are able to make those
  choices for themselves a significant number of
  people require some form of assistance to realize
  their career choices.

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• Career development is happening in this state.
• South Australia Works in the Regions, Regional
  Coordinators in particular, have made a
  substantial contribution to establishing career
  development services in Mount Gambier, Whyalla,
  Port Augusta, Murray Bridge, Mount Barker, and
  Northern Adelaide.
• South Australia Works in the Regions in
  partnership with the Commonwealth Government are
  making investments in career development services
  and are making a difference.
• Almost 1500 people have received career
  development services with over 500 employment
  outcomes achieved.

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• In response, the South Australian Government
  proposes the establishment of South Australia
  Works CareersSA A mechanism for delivering high
  quality career development services in the State
• CareersSA will
• Maximise learning, workforce participation, and
  productivity through the provision of high
  quality, coordinated and accessible whole- of-
  life career services for South Australians

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• CareersSA has been developed in collaboration
  with a range of career development stakeholders
  and South Australia Works in the Regions
  Regional Coordinators
• The outcome is a mechanism for the strategic
  provision of state-wide career development
  services for individuals, groups of people,
  industry and career development practitioners
• CareersSA is underpinned by a policy framework
  that is being driven by current research and
  policy around career development. In particular
• Australian Blueprint for Career Development
• Guiding Principles for Career Development
  Services and Career Information Products
• Professional Standards for Australian Career
  Development Practitioners

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• The objectives of CareersSA are to
• Provide career information and services to high
  priority groups
• Provide employers with information
• Assist young people to make an effective
  transitions to further learning, training and/or
  employment
• Assist young people at risk of not making an
  effective transition
• Provide access to labour market information

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• CareersSA will establish
• A state-wide network of high quality flexible
  consistent and co-coordinated career development
  services for individuals groups of people
  industry and career development practitioners
• High quality, reliable careers and labour market
  intelligence
• Skills Recognition Services
• CareersSA web-based portal
• Interagency Career Development Network
• Career Development Toolkit

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• CareersSA will have many benefits
• It will reinforce the work of Employment Programs
  and the Industry Skills Development Directorates
• Ensure people are not disadvantaged in the labour
  market
• CareersSA will help people be aware of the
  opportunities that are available to them

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• People need to have options
• CareersSA will provide good quality career advice
  and guidance to help people to realise they do
  have options

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• CareersSA will assist to minimise disengagement
  from education, training and the workforce
• CareersSA will support people to be better
  informed about the education and employment
  choices they make

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• The challenge is to help people make personal
  choices whilst, at the same time, meeting the
  skills requirements of the state
• CareersSA will seek to generate greater skills
  recognition and development to increase
  opportunities for workforce participation and
  at the same time guide people towards occupations
  in demand

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• CareersSA will help to provide greater
  opportunities for securing work, earning and
  remaining in employment

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• In conclusion
• The purpose of CareersSA is to provide flexible,
  consistent, high quality career development
  services
• A service that is underpinned by current career
  research and policy
• Which will act as the way forward for the
  provision of career development services in South
  Australia