Area B: Learning and Work Exploration
Competency 5: Locate and effectively use career information
Phase III - Competency 5.3
Locate and evaluate a range of career information sources
| Acquire | |
|---|---|
| 5.3.1 | Discover how key personnel in selected work roles could become ideal information resources/ role models. |
| 5.3.2 | Understand how labour market information (profiles, statistics, etc.) can be used when making career decisions. |
| 5.3.3 | Explore how trends and work opportunities in various industry sectors impact upon the nature and structure of work roles. |
| 5.3.4 | Explore how employment and workplace trends impact upon the provision of education and training. |
| 5.3.5 | Understand how a variety of factors (e.g., supply and demand for workers, demographic changes, environmental conditions, geographic location) impact upon work opportunities. |
| Apply | |
| 5.3.6 | Use career information resources such as career directories, occupational classification systems, labour market information, mass media, computer and Internet-based career information delivery systems to locate trend information on occupational and industry trends, education and training trends, and social and economic trends. |
| Personalise | |
| 5.3.7 | Rank the usefulness of career information resources you have explored in terms of their accuracy, currency, reliability and relevance. |
| Act | |
| 5.3.8 | Put strategies in place to evaluate career information resources that you locate and use. |
