Lunch & learn: setting people up for the next job

Employment services are good at finding jobs. The harder problem is helping people keep them and build on them. This session makes the case that career development is the difference between placing a person in a job and setting them up for the next one, and offers a free, practical way to act on it: the Australian Blueprint for Career Development.

Designed for all ages, the Blueprint sets out eleven career management competencies that can be worked into a routine appointment without new programs, funding or forms. David Carney, Executive Director of the Career Industry Council of Australia (CICA) will walk you through what the Blueprint is, why it is not age-bound, and how an Employment Consultant can use one competency in one conversation, illustrated with a worked example. It also draws on CICA’s research with the disability employment sector, including what 250 practitioners identified as the biggest barriers and most effective strategies, and what people with disability themselves say career success means: an ordinary life.