Career Counselling, Coaching and Assessment

 

Designed to provide the essential foundations for anyone in a career development role. The CCCA course builds practical skills in career counselling, coaching, and assessment, grounded in contemporary research and real practice.

 

 

 

 

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Developing careers with evidence and best practice

The CCCA course equips educators with evidence-backed counselling, coaching and assessment skills through a flexible 20-hour program accredited toward the RMIT Graduate Certificate. Choose hybrid live online or three-day in-person learning. 
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"Thank you for such a fantastic course. I loved every minute. I'm feeling very motivated to rethink the approach I take and ready to tackle the barriers to change."
TAS Secondary Teacher
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"I wanted to contact you to let you know just how much I valued the PD. It wasn’t just the lightbulb moment of ‘How did we miss this?’ it was also the confirmation that the visual aides we have used are the same tools you shared with us. That was a big affirmation for me."
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"I absolutely loved the PD - it's been really inspiring and I am looking forward to how I can move this into my Link and Launch role ... Thanks again to both you and Trent - was such a fabulous few days."
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Build the skills to help people navigate careers and pathways.

 

The Career Counselling, Coaching and Assessment course gives people working in, or moving into, career development a strong foundation for helping others navigate career decisions, transitions and uncertainty.

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Across 20 hours of learning, you'll explore what current research tells us about how people make sense of their futures, how they respond to uncertainty and develop the agency to move forward. You'll build practical skills for career conversations and interventions that go beyond matching people to jobs or helping them make a single decision, towards supporting them to actively design and develop their careers across their lives.

Participants leave the course with greater confidence in career conversations, a broader understanding of contemporary career development evidence and practice, and an expanded toolkit for working with students, clients and other individuals at different ages and stages.

Download the overview booklet for full course details

 

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Hybrid live online learning

Complete the course over four months with engaging video, audio, readings and discussion, plus 3 live online seminars giving you live time to discuss concepts and your context.

Course fee: $2150 for 20 hours live and digital learning over 4 months.

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3-day intensive

in-person learning

Join us in person at one of our fantastic venues. Complete the course in three provocative, practical and engaging days. Sign up or ask us about other locations.

Course fee: $2150 for 20 hours live in-person learning over 3 days.

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Foundations for practice

For those already working in career development, the CCCA course offers an opportunity to refresh and extend your practice through contemporary theory, research and applied approaches.

For those moving into the field, it provides a strong grounding in the knowledge and skills that underpin professional career development practice.

Whether you choose the in-person or hybrid live online experience, you'll learn alongside others working across the career development field, building both your professional capability and your network.

Your instructors are Liv Pennie, Dr Trent Loader and Dr Jim Bright. Together, they bring decades of experience in career development, education and psychology, blending experience of school leadership and teaching with research and strategy for career education in schools, systems, sport teams and private practice.

What the course covers:

In 20 hours of study, you will learn:

  • How and when career decisions are made; the role of the careers professional and skills used in providing practical career development assistance.

  • Ways to enhance individuals' self-efficacy and confidence in career exploration, including tools and techniques.

  • An understanding of the effect of uncertainty and the changing nature of work on career planning for adults and school-age students.

  • Current research and effective practice as applied to schools, higher education and other clients in a careers context. Supplementary and further reading is provided to help you explore special topics.

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This professional course is for:

Anyone wanting to offer careers education, career counselling, coaching or careers assessment services to students or adults.

Existing and new practitioners who are keen to develop professional skills and theoretical understanding. People who want to be inspired by the latest evidence and best practice.  

People who would like to cement and upgrade their skills in a course that can contribute to a Graduate Certificate. This course offers accreditation linked to RMIT.

Learners have included educators of all types, often with a wellbeing or student futures remit, career development practitioners seeking to refresh their practice in change and uncertainty, and player development managers or wellbeing advisors in elite and pro sport. 

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Get all the details

 

Download the Course Overview booklet

This booklet provides details of the content in the in-person 3-day intensive and the hybrid live online course formats. It covers fees and the Australian Professional Standards for Career Development Practitioners. It also has information about optional assessment for accreditation with RMIT, and about your instructors.

 
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Recognition for your learning with optional accreditation

This course is linked to the RMIT Graduate Certificate in Career Education and Development.

Upon successful completion of both the CCCA course and optional extra agreed assessment tasks, students will be eligible for recognition of prior learning towards the foundation course Practices in Career Design (HWSS2240).

Eligibility for the RMIT Graduate Certificate in Career Education and Development is assessed through the standard RMIT admissions process and students planning to progress towards this Graduate Certificate should check their eligibility and apply directly through RMIT.
 
In other words, doing the CCCA and its assessment tasks doesn't automatically make you eligible for the RMIT Graduate Certificate program but if you're eligible to enrol and you do enrol, successful completion of the CCCA and its assessment can count towards 25% of the RMIT program.
 
The assessment comprises two tasks and engagement in discussion during the hybrid live online or in-person CCCA. It attracts an administrative fee of $250. 
 

For further details contact BECOME via email or express your interest via the form below.