1. Career Ready: Creating a career path
Getting started, thinking ahead
Career Development Centre

2. Career Ready: Creating a career path
Thinking ahead about work in the 21st century
Knowing yourself
Discovering opportunities
Making decisions
Taking action

3. Where are you going? UP ANYWHERE EVERYWHERE THERE ACROSS SOMEWHERE

4. DON’T PANIC

5. change is
constant
uncertainty
can be
helpful

6. We can imagine the future
but we can’t predict it.

7. environment
technology
globalisation

8. Imagine… 6-12 major career shifts
variety locations situations, environments, teams
cycles of paid, unpaid work, study and training
full-time, part-time, casual, solo, team and project roles

9. 6 job titles that didn’t exist before 1989
Social Media Strategist
E Commerce Consultant
App Developer
Information Architect
Genetic Counsellor
3-D Printing Professional

10. What will your career path look like?

11. Career Development Association of Australia
Career development refers to the process of managing learning, work, leisure and transitions at all ages and stages of life.
Career Development Association of Australia

12. my
ning skills
a career plan 

13. Career cycle model

14. reflect research make decisions plan take risks persist collaborate
THINGS TO DO
research
make decisions
plan
take risks
persist
collaborate
learn

15. What do you know about change?
recovering from an illness
starting school
doing new subjects
moving house
making a
new friend
learning to drive
beginning uni
leaving home
starting a
part-time job
moving schools
facing loss
travelling

16. Key points about work in the 21st century
It’s your career – you need to manage it.
Your career is a work-in progress and you’ll make many career decisions throughout your life.
Change will keep happening.
Uncertainty is part of life.
Life-long learning, resilience and a growth mindset will help you navigate change and create your own career pathways.

17. Next step:
Work through the readings and activities on
‘thinking ahead about work in the 21st Century.’