Best Practices in Career Education Program Design

This online program focuses on the key competencies you will require for the effective provision career development or career management services. You will undertake up to five hours of continuing professional development through reading, watching videos, hearing from experts, reflecting on learnings and completing practical activities. 

This course, Best Practices in Career Education Program Design, focuses on supporting you in the design of impactful, engaging and outcomes driven Career Education Programs. In this course, you will learn about the four steps to conduct a needs analysis; practice writing clear learning outcome statements; reflect on how you can use the critical ingredients to make your career education programs more impactful; and brainstorm ideas on incorporating effective workshop management techniques to engage learners. You will engage with strategies and techniques that can be applied to your career education program designs, based on contemporary research and best practice. You will also hear from several career development experts regarding how they design career education activities for maximum impact, with the opportunity to complete practical application exercises to build your own knowledge and skill. If you are responsible for the design and delivery of career education activities and you want them to be meaningful to participants with a lasting and positive impact, then you will value the content of this course - Best Practices in Career Education Program Design.

This course is for individuals who design and deliver:

• Career education workshops
• Multi-component programs
• Talent management and career transition programs

The course equips practitioners with the knowledge and skills to design and deliver engaging and effective career education and development.

This includes: 

Individuals providing career services and leaders of career education and development who work with groups of clients in settings and services including:

• Schools
• Higher and Vocational Education
• Employment Service Providers (including Disability Employment)
• Outplacement
• Community Mental Health and Social Services
• Migrant and Refugee Services
• Rehabilitation
• Human Resources and Talent Management
• Corporate Organisations
• Government Agencies
• Professional Sport and High-Performance Programs
• Private Practice

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Apply a needs analysis framework to identify the career development needs of clients and organisations. 
• Write learning outcomes that incorporate a learning activity, context, and expected outcomes
• Design a career education program that incorporates at least one critical ingredient
• Incorporate teaching techniques to increase learner engagement in a workshop setting 

• Interviews with career development experts and thought leaders in career education
• Downloadable templates and resources within each module, for you to use in your own practice
• In depth, relevant and practical content informed by the latest research in vocational psychology and career development
• Learning modules that include examples, activities, and techniques that you can apply to your practice
• Insights for Practice Reports that translate the latest research into practical application