The Toolkit:
Case Studies
Many schools, school systems and organisations have used the Blueprint since the prototype was released in 2003.
Browse through their stories and find out how they used the Blueprint to improve career development services for both young people and adults and learn from their experiences.
Working with Young People | Working with Adults | Across the LifespanWorking with Young People
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Mapping Across Secondary School Curriculum- Mazenod College WA
Find out how the careers team at this school worked with Heads of Departments and Year Co-ordinators to map career activities across the school.
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Creating a Learning District- Northern Corridor Community of Practice QLD
An urban community used the Blueprint to create career conversations and to enhance the consistency of career programs.
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Curriculum Mapping in High School- Belmont High School VIC
Find out how the Blueprint was used as a framework for the inclusion of career education in the school curriculum for Year 7 to 10 students.
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Designing a Comprehensive High School Program- St Mary's College QLD
A high school catering for 12-18 year olds followed the step-by-step processes for designing a comprehensive career development program.
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Developing Resources- Career Keys QLD
A developer of career and transition workbooks for high school students used the Blueprint to strengthen their resources.
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Developing a Year 10+ Program- Far North Queensland Indigenous Support Unit Community of Practice
A high school expanded its vocational programs by incorporating the Blueprint competencies.
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District Program for Indigenous Students- Far North Queensland Indigenous Support Unit Community of Practice
Learn how the Far North Queensland Indigenous Schooling Support Unit (FNQ ISSU), worked with many partners to develop and implement a coordinated, district-wide career development program for the predominantly Indigenous Year 10 student population in the Torres Strait and Cape District.
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District-wide Needs Assessment- Employment Choice NSW
Introducing the Blueprint to a cluster of district schools was not without its difficulties.
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Early Childhood- Extra Edge WA
Read about an early childhood development program that provides the underpinning social skills that contribute to career development competence later in life.
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LLEN District Program- South Gippsland Bass Coast Local Learning and Employment Network VIC
Find out how a LLEN in Victoria mapped the careers program offered at one local high school in the region against the Blueprint and the Victorian State Government's Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) and Managed Individual Pathways (MIPs) programs.
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Local Community Partnership Mapping- Worklinks QLD
An LCP offering employment skills and enterprise development training courses, structured workplace learning and career and transition services created portfolios/logbooks for their students.
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Mapping Across Secondary School Curriculum- Mindarie Senior College WA
Discover how a practitioner persuaded heads of year levels and heads of learning areas to identify aspects of the Blueprint addressed by their subject or year level.
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Mapping Year 11 & 12 School Activities- Mindarie Senior College WA
A greater ability to articulate the learning outcomes of career development activities and an enhanced career development culture were tangible outcomes of this school's mapping activities.
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Needs Assessment for High School- St John Fisher College QLD
This school developed a week long career program with the longer-term intention of gaining support for more substantive curriculum change.
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Reviewing Years 9 & 10 Program- Henry Kendall and Wyong High Schools NSW
The Blueprint provided an effective tool for reviewing and redesigning career education programs for Years 9 and 10 students.
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Using Appendices in a Range of School Environments- Inner Melbourne VET Cluster (IMVC) and Career Education Association of Victoria (CEAV)
Read more about the experiences of a community of practitioners who trialed the use of the appendices in a variety of school settings.
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Whole School Integrated Learning System- Murdoch College WA
Discover how the Blueprint provides an important foundation stone for the whole school program at this school.
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Year 11 & 12 Vocational Program- Kirwan Senior High School QLD
At this Queensland school, worksheets, activities and a set of resources (including videos and PC resources) were developed and incorporated into the school's Senior Education and Training plans for Year 11 and 12 students.
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Year 10 'At Risk' Students- Mountain Creek State High School QLD
Find out how the Blueprint informed the design of a program for Year 10 students considered 'at risk' of disengaging from further education or employment.
Working with Adults
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Apprentices and Existing Workers- Queensland Rail
Find out how the apprentices and other workers of this large organisation were helped to develop their career management skills.
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Developing a Program for Adults with Learning Disabilities- Morrison House VIC
Find out how ACE providers and Community Health Providers used the Blueprint to strengthen their programs for clients, who face multiple levels of disadvantage, including disability, mental health issues and extreme social disengagement.
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Employees with a Disability- Bedford Industries SA
This large organisation providing supported employment opportunities for people with disability used the Blueprint to strengthen their work-ready program.
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Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Tertiary Students- Career Kaleidoscope VIC
The Blueprint was used to design career development programs for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) international undergraduate and postgraduate students in Australian universities and TAFE colleges.
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Newly Arrived Migrants- Skills Plus VIC
The Blueprint was used by an RTO to develop a program for newly arrived adult migrants and refugees from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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Adult Career Development Centre- Limestone Coast Community of Practice SA
This adult career development centre used the Blueprint to help their short-term clients identify the competencies that they needed to develop.
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Career Development Workshop for Adults- Stellday Career Services NSW
Read more about designing, promoting and delivering a one-day career development workshop based on the Blueprint for flight attendants.
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Infusing Career Development into University Courses- University of Technology Sydney
Find out how this large metropolitan university used the Blueprint for curriculum planning.
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Women Returners- Research Project WA
Find out how the Blueprint was used to identify the important career development needs of women returning to the workforce after a break.
Across the Lifespan
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From Kindergarten to Adulthood- Association of Independent Schools SA Community of Practice
Discover how this large community of schools, trainee teachers, and public servants used the Blueprint to discover whether their intersecting agency programs facilitated the development of career management competencies.
