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.