Australian Blueprint of Career Development competencies CAREER COMPETENCIES PHASE II PERFORMANCE INDICATOR AREA B: LEARNING AND WORK EXPLORATION 6. Understand the 6.2 Understand how work 6.2.3 Understand relationships relationship between contributes to the between work, community and work, society and community the economy the economy AREA C: CAREER BUILDING 7. Secure/create and 7.2 Develop qualities to 7.2.9 Acknowledge your personal maintain work seek and obtain/create qualities and skills and determine work which to build into your career goals and aspirations 7.2.3 Understand the language describing employment and other work opportunities and conditions 8. Make career enhancing 8.2 Link decision-making to 8.2.9 Understand how uncertainties decisions career building the future may lead to creative or alternative choices 8.2.3 Explore possible outcomes of decisions Teachers’ notes: Entrepreneurial skills Outcome Identify changes in the world of work, including entrepreneurial skills. Rationale With many major businesses and large government departments downsizing, there is a trend towards people working from home and setting up their own businesses. To cope with this changing nature of work, students must be enterprising and flexible, and may need to become entrepreneurial. Task description Suggested Years 9 and 10 1. The teacher facilitates a discussion about how the current trends of downsizing, reductions in the labour force and redundancies are making people think there are no safe jobs any more. 2. During this discussion, the teacher should highlight the fact that in some of Australia, unemployment is on the rise, especially for the groups traditionally discriminated against: older
Australian Blueprint of Career Development competencies CAREER COMPETENCIES PHASE II PERFORMANCE INDICATOR AREA B: LEARNING AND WORK EXPLORATION 6. Understand the relationship between work, society and the economy 6.2 Understand how work contributes to the community 6.2.3 Understand relationships between work, community and the economy AREA C: CAREER BUILDING 7. Secure/create and maintain work 7.2 Develop qualities to seek and obtain/create work 7.2.9 Acknowledge your personal qualities and skills and determine which to build into your career goals and aspirations 7.2.3 Understand the language describing employment and other work opportunities and conditions 8. Make career enhancing decisions 8.2 Link decision-making to career building 8.2.9 Understand how uncertainties the future may lead to creative or alternative choices 8.2.3 Explore possible outcomes of decisions Teachers’ notes: Entrepreneurial skills Outcome Identify changes in the world of work, including entrepreneurial skills. Rationale With many major businesses and large government departments downsizing, there is a trend towards people working from home and setting up their own businesses. To cope with this changing nature of work, students must be enterprising and flexible, and may need to become entrepreneurial. Task description Suggested Years 9 and 10 1. The teacher facilitates a discussion about how the current trends of downsizing, reductions in the labour force and redundancies are making people think there are no safe jobs any more. 2. During this discussion, the teacher should highlight the fact that in some of Australia, unemployment is on the rise, especially for the groups traditionally discriminated against: older
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