Career Development Principles

Career development focuses on enabling people to understand and develop self-awareness and skills in order to make good decisions about their working lives.

The High Five Principles of Career development play an important part in self-awareness. They represent valuable concepts to consider when exploring career opportunities and making post school decisions. Please see the below breakdown of each principle.

1. Change is constant - The world of work is always changing. You also change as you develop personally and experience life. Don’t be afraid of change; accept it and use it as an opportunity.

2. Know yourself and follow your heart - A most important skill in career management is self-awareness – knowing your interests, abilities, values, aspirations, and the things/people that influence you. Start your job ideas list with jobs you would most like (dream jobs) even if they are currently unrealistic. This can get you started and lead to other jobs you hadn’t thought of.

3. Focus on the journey - It's good to have goals, both short and long term. However, you should not be so focused on them that you miss opportunities that may emerge along the way.

4. Learning is ongoing - Learning doesn’t stop just because you finish your course and get a job. Just as change is constant so is the need to keep up to speed with new technologies, new methods of practice and emerging trends in your career field.

5. Access your allies - These are the people who can help and support you during your career journey, your school guidance officer/counsellor, teachers, your family and friends, sport coaches and others within your social network. You can learn much from other people’s experiences.

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