Web
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GENERAL CAREER INFORMATION DIRECTORIES
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Myfuture
www.myfuture.edu.au |
A joint initiative of Commonwealth, State and Territory
Governments, providing a comprehensive set of career related
information, as well as a decision making tool that helps users
explore options, set goals and plan careers. |
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Youth Employment Link (YEL)
www.yel.gov.au |
State Government site for young people looking for employment,
education or training. |
Australian Workplace
www.employment.gov.au |
Commonwealth Department of Employment & Workplace Relations (DEWR)
site providing information on employment, workplace relations,
government assistance, job, careers, training and wages |
Short Courses
www.shortcourses.vic.gov.au |
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KEY ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
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The Job Guide 2003
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Provides information on hundreds of occupations, including
contact details of industry and professional organisations |
Commonwealth Career
Information products
www.dest.gov.au/schools/careers/ciproducts.htm
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Includes Job Search – starting out, Parents Help with Careers,
Target/Bullseye posters |
SPECIALISED CAREER SITES
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Automotive Careers
www.autocareers.com.au |
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Links to
subject-related careers sites
www.myfuture.edu,au/services/default.asp?FunctionID=5000
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Defence Force
Careers
www.defencejobs.gov.au |
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Electrotechnology
Careers
www.electrotecfutures.com.au |
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GoScience
www.goscience.com.au |
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Multimedia Victoria
www.mmv.vic.gov.au |
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Online directory of
Victorian IT Companies
www.mmv.vic.gov.au/VicIT |
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My Career mentor
www.mycareer.com.au/editorial/career_mentor/indix.html
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Interviews with people in a wide range of jobs |
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Guides to TAFE pathways in tourism & hospitality,
Information technology, business services &
Community services
www.otte.vic.gov.au/studinfo/index.htm |
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Careers in Teaching
www.teaching.vic.gov.au |
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Careers in
manufacturing
www.zoom.aigroup.asn.au |
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HIGHER EDUCATION & UNIVERSITY LINKS
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Universities
www.dest.gov.au/tenfields/detya/which_uni.html
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University sites around Australia |
TAFE Institutes
www.otte.vic.gov.au/tafe/directory/colglist.htm |
TAFE Institution sites located in Victoria |
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Graduate Careers Council of Australia (GCCA)
www.gradlink.edu.au |
Provides graduate careers and employment information, graduate
outcomes and salaries, online post-graduate course directory |
Higher Education in
Victoria
www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/highered/ |
Provides information about the various Higher Education options
in Victoria |
VOCATIONAL TRAINING TAFE
SITES
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Adult, Community and
Further Education
www.acfe.vic.gov.au/index/htm |
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TAFE Course
Information
www.otte.vic.gov.au |
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Information on
Apprenticeships and Traineeships
www.newapprenticeships.gov.au |
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Take Off!
www.takeoff.anta.gov.au |
Take Off! Is a resource program explaining the features and
benefits of Vocational Education & Training using real stories
of young people from around Australia |
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New Apprenticeships Access Programme (NAAP)
www.naap.detya.gov.au/default.asp |
NAAP provides job seekers who experience barriers to skilled
employment, with pre-vocational training, support and assistance
to obtain and maintain a New Apprenticeship |
SECONDARY EDUCATION, VCE
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VTAC (Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre)
www.vtac.edu.au |
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Information for
current Year 10 & 11 students
www.vtac.edu.au/yr10_11/year10-11.html |
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Back to the Books –
Planning your Return to Study
www.vtac.edu.au/library/back2books.html |
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ABC of Applying: A
guide for VCE Parents
www.vtac.edu.au/library/abcapp.html |
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Victorian Curriculum
& Assessment Authority
www.vcaa.vic.edu.au |
State VCE authority (previously known as Board of Studies) |
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Guide to the VCE, VCAL and Apprenticeships and Traineeships for
2003
www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/VCE/guide03/index.htm |
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Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL)
www.vqu.vic.gov.au/vqa/vcal/default.htm |
The new Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) gives
students in Years 11 and 12 the option of an alternative pathway
to further education and training |
DISTANCE EDUCATION LINKS
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Open Learning Australia
www.ola.edu.au |
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TAFE Virtual Campus
www.tafevc.com.au |
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JOB SEEKING, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND ISSUES |
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Australian Job
Search
www.jobsearch.gov.au |
Australian Job Search (AJS) provides a new way for job seekers
to search for a job on a national database. |
Job Outlook
www.Jobsearch.gov.au/joboutlook/default.asp |
Find out about job prospects, weekly earnings, type of work and
other useful occupational information |
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Job Watch (The Employment Rights Watchdog)
www.job-watch.org.au |
Unfair dismissal, workplace violence, shonky ads, etc. |
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Australian Federal Government Jobs via Public Service Gazette
Online
www.psgazetteonline.gov.au/index2.html |
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Victorian Government
Jobs Online
www.jobs.vic.gov.au |
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Careerone
www.careerone.com.au |
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Monster
www.monster.com.au |
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My Career
www.mycareer.com.au |
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Seek
www.seek.com.au |
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The InfoXchange
Employment Noticeboard
www.infoxchange.net.au/group/employment |
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Wagenet
– Information about wages and conditions of employment
www.wagenet.gov.au |
Check how much you should be paid |
VOLUNTEER WORK
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Go Volunteer
www.govolunteer.com.au |
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Volunteering
Australia
www.volunteeringaustralia.org |
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BUSINESS
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New Enterprise
Incentive Scheme (NEIS)
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NEIS is a
self-employment programme assisting eligible jobseekers to
become self-supporting and independent of Centrelink payments by
establishing their own commercially viable business |
Australian Business
Online
www.abol.net |
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COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS & SERVICES |
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Entry Point – Directory to Australian Commonwealth Government
www.fed.gov.au |
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Centrelink
www.centrelink.gov.au |
Youth
Allowance, Austudy, Newstart, Pensions, other payments,
Concession Cards, Centrelink Career Information Centres |
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Higher Education and Contribution Scheme (HECS)
www.ato.gov.au/hecs |
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The Source
www.thesource.gov.au |
The Source
is the Commonwealth government’s youth website providing
information on careers, studying, help with money, health, legal
rights and much more |
STATE GOVERNMENT
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State Government
Home Page
www.vic.gov.au |
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COMMUNITY SECTOR
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The InfoXchange
www.infoxchange.net.au |
For links
with welfare, youth, community services |
CAREER MANAGEMENT
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Career Development
eManual – University of Waterloo
www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca |
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Personality Tests to
identify your interest, skills
www.2h.com/personallity-tests.html |
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Australian
Association of Career Counsellors
www.aacc.org.au |
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Career Education
Association of Victoria
www.aacc.org.au |
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Career Education
Association of Victoria
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STATISTICS |
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Australian Job Numbers
www.abs.gov.au |
The Australian Bureau of Statistics provides a range of
statistics relevant to jobseekers and students based on
industry, occupation and type of work |
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Skill Shortages, Vacancy Trends & Job Outlook
www.workplace.gov.au/SkillShortages |
Provides information on National and State Skill Shortages,
Industry Employment Trends and Skill Shortages in Trade
Occupations |
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CENTRELINK |
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Cic.mel@centrelink.gov.au |
Giving you career options |
