The Australian Blueprint for Career Development (“the Blueprint”) is a framework for designing, implementing and evaluating career development programs for young people and adults. At its core, the Blueprint identifies the skills, attitudes and knowledge that individuals need to make sound choices and to effectively manage their careers.
The Blueprint:
- provides a common language for all developers, providers and clients of career development programs and services;
- facilitates smooth linkages between career development programs and services;
- provides a basis for producing quality career development resources for use with and by different client groups;
- helps to achieve a better match between individuals’ skills and job aspirations, and their actual employment choices;
- enhances human resources practices within both public and private sector organisations;
- enables individuals to manage their careers and work/life balance more effectively, particularly in a rapidly changing labour market;
- encourages people of all ages to engage in purposeful learning; and
- supports a culture of lifelong learning and development in Australia.
Go to the Blueprint website to download the Blueprint, access The Toolkit (a major resource bank) and view case studies of successful application of the Blueprint.