Careers Information

Web Sites

Information

GENERAL CAREER INFORMATION DIRECTORIES

 

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.

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

 

KEY ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

 

The Job Guide 2003

www.jobguide.dest.gov.au

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

Includes Job Search – starting out, Parents Help with Careers, Target/Bullseye posters

SPECIALISED CAREER SITES

 

Automotive Careers

www.autocareers.com.au

 

Links to subject-related careers sites

www.myfuture.edu,au/services/default.asp?FunctionID=5000

 

Defence Force Careers

www.defencejobs.gov.au

 

Electrotechnology Careers

www.electrotecfutures.com.au

 

GoScience

www.goscience.com.au

 

Multimedia Victoria

www.mmv.vic.gov.au

 

Online directory of Victorian IT Companies

www.mmv.vic.gov.au/VicIT

 

My Career mentor

www.mycareer.com.au/editorial/career_mentor/indix.html

Interviews with people in a wide range of jobs

Guides to TAFE pathways in tourism & hospitality,

Information technology, business services &

Community services

www.otte.vic.gov.au/studinfo/index.htm

 

Careers in Teaching

www.teaching.vic.gov.au

 

Careers in manufacturing

www.zoom.aigroup.asn.au

 

HIGHER EDUCATION & UNIVERSITY LINKS

 

Universities

www.dest.gov.au/tenfields/detya/which_uni.html

University sites around Australia

TAFE Institutes

www.otte.vic.gov.au/tafe/directory/colglist.htm

TAFE Institution sites located in Victoria

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

 

Adult, Community and Further Education

www.acfe.vic.gov.au/index/htm  

 

TAFE Course Information

www.otte.vic.gov.au

 

Information on Apprenticeships and Traineeships

www.newapprenticeships.gov.au

 

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

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

 

VTAC (Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre)

www.vtac.edu.au

 

Information for current Year 10 & 11 students

www.vtac.edu.au/yr10_11/year10-11.html

 

Back to the Books – Planning your Return to Study

www.vtac.edu.au/library/back2books.html

 

ABC of Applying: A guide for VCE Parents

www.vtac.edu.au/library/abcapp.html

 

Victorian Curriculum & Assessment Authority

www.vcaa.vic.edu.au

State VCE authority (previously known as Board of Studies)

Guide to the VCE, VCAL and Apprenticeships and Traineeships for 2003

www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/VCE/guide03/index.htm

 

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

 

Open Learning Australia

www.ola.edu.au

 

TAFE Virtual Campus

www.tafevc.com.au

 

JOB SEEKING, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND ISSUES

 

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

Job Watch (The Employment Rights Watchdog)
www.job-watch.org.au  

Unfair dismissal, workplace violence, shonky ads, etc.

Australian Federal Government Jobs via Public Service Gazette Online

www.psgazetteonline.gov.au/index2.html

 

Victorian Government Jobs Online

www.jobs.vic.gov.au  

 

Careerone

www.careerone.com.au

 

Monster

www.monster.com.au

 

My Career

www.mycareer.com.au

 

Seek

www.seek.com.au

 

The InfoXchange Employment Noticeboard

www.infoxchange.net.au/group/employment

 

WagenetInformation about wages and conditions of employment
www.wagenet.gov.au   

Check how much you should be paid

VOLUNTEER WORK

 

Go Volunteer

www.govolunteer.com.au

 

Volunteering Australia

www.volunteeringaustralia.org

 

BUSINESS

 

New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)

www.workplace.gov.au/workplace/selfemployment

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

 

COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS & SERVICES

 

Entry Point – Directory to Australian Commonwealth Government

www.fed.gov.au

 

Centrelink

www.centrelink.gov.au

Youth Allowance, Austudy, Newstart, Pensions, other payments, Concession Cards, Centrelink Career Information Centres

Higher Education and Contribution Scheme (HECS)

www.ato.gov.au/hecs

 

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

 

State Government Home Page

www.vic.gov.au

 

COMMUNITY SECTOR

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The InfoXchange

www.infoxchange.net.au

For links with welfare, youth, community services

CAREER MANAGEMENT

 

Career Development eManual – University of Waterloo

www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca

 

Personality Tests to identify your interest, skills

www.2h.com/personallity-tests.html

 

Australian Association of Career Counsellors

www.aacc.org.au

 

Career Education Association of Victoria

www.aacc.org.au

 

Career Education Association of Victoria

www.netspace.net.au/~ceav

 

STATISTICS

 

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

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

CENTRELINK

 

Cic.mel@centrelink.gov.au

Giving you career options