CAREER AND ENTERPRISE GENERAL
Year 12 Program 2017
Week
Syllabus Key teaching points
Unit 3
Learning to learn

identify personal and professional skills and
attributes, and understand their link to career
development (EST)
Gaining and keeping work
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Term 1
1-3
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skills used to connect with and work with others,
such as recognising strengths and weaknesses of
your interpersonal skills
the features of the personality types outlined in
Holland’s Theory of Career Choice (1985) and how
they relate to career choice (EST)
determine own personality type and preferred work
environment using the personality types and work
environments outlined in Holland’s Theory of
Career Choice (1985)
Lesson Content

Introduction to the CAEG unit;
distribution of syllabus, course outline
and assessment outline
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Enterprising Behaviours
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Enterprising in different settings
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Career Management Competencies
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Work skills for jobs
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Employability Skills
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Industry-specific competencies
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Why work?
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Career pathways
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Skills, attributes, values, interests
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Holland’s Theory of Career Choice
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RAISEC Job matching
Resources
Career and Enterprise General
12 – Michael Carolan
Pg 2-11
Pg 12-17
Pg 34-59
http://www.careercentre.dtwd.wa.
gov.au/careerplanning/Pages/Ca
reerPlanning.aspx
(online quizzes – identify skills,
attributes etc)
Holland’s Theory Handout
(seqta)
Youtube – Holland’s Theory of
Career Choice (seqta)
https://myfuture.edu.au
http://www.skillsroad.com.au/ho
me
Assessment Task 1 – Response (In-class) Holland’s Theory for Career Choices
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The nature of work
o Rights and Responsibilities
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Factors that create effective workplaces, including:
management of human, physical, financial and
technological resources, internal and external
communication strategies and processes, including
meetings, telephone calls and text messages,
emails, memos, letters, newsletters, intranet and
internet
o Basic employee rights and
responsibilities
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health and safety workplace legislation
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equal employment opportunity workplace legislation
o WorkSafe Smartmove general module
and industry-specific
Career and Enterprise General
12 – Michael Carolan
Pg 68-79; 101-107
o Employment contracts
WHS Powerpoint (seqta)
o Workplace Safety
http://smartmove.safetyline.wa.g
ov.au (video and online modules
seqta)
o WHS rights and protocols
o Student safety induction
o Equal opportunity legislation

the need for rights and protocols for the workplace,
including: health and safety, equal opportunity,
codes of conduct and standards
o Workplace communication –
formal/informal, communication tools

reasons for, and requirements of, an employment
contract with reference to the National Employment
Standards from the Fair Work Act 2009
Work skills

the need to recognise diversity within a workplace,
including: ages, ethnicity, physical ability
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the need to adjust to diversity within a workplace

the steps in planning and organising work load and
work/life balance, including: determining the
amount of work to be completed in a set timeframe,
identifying personal priorities related to work hours
and work patterns
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o
Social diversity
Cross-cultural skills : ethnicity, age,
ability
o
Career and Enterprise General
12 – Michael Carolan
pg 96-101
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/
news/speeches/culturaldiversity-workplace-0
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/work
life-balance-is-getting-worsefor-australians-new-report20141117-11otw6.html
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Year 12 Program 2017
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ways to build networks that will enhance career
opportunities, including: identifying people you feel
comfortable talking to and whose advice you listen
to, increasing the range of people you know in a
work role, using of technology to help expand
networks
 strategies to deal with unexpected events in a
workplace
The nature of work

features of each of the following workplace
organisational structures: hierarchical, flat

the impact of global trends on the workforce,
including: the ageing workforce, a more mobile
population, changing work roles of family members,
e-commerce (for example, online shopping),
overseas outsourcing
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http://www.mindhealthconnect.or
g.au/work-life-balance
o
Organisational structures – vertical
and horizontal
o
Types of organisational structures –
hierarchical, flat
Career and Enterprise General
12 – Michael Carolan
Pg 80-83;
144-157;158-169
o
Global trends impacting on the
workforce – globalisation, ecommerce, ageing workforce, mobile
population, changing family roles
http://www.entitysolutions.com.au
/blog/top-5-global-workforcetrends-are-redefiningworkplaces
o
Career development - Managing risks
Career development and management
http://www.globaleducation.edu.a
u/teaching-activity/what-isglobalisationms.html#activity1
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the influence of global trends on changing
workplace requirements, including: possible
increased travel requirements, increased need for
technology for video or teleconferencing, more
cultural diversity in work environments
Assessment Task 2 – Investigation
Impacts of Global Trends on the Workforce
o
Research, draft and present
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CAREER AND ENTERPRISE GENERAL
Year 12 Program 2017
Learning to learn
o
Lifelong learning
o
Training – informal, formal, on the job/
off the job training
o
Personal qualities, attributes, abilities
o
Qualifications training and experience
o
Skills, attributes, values, interests
o
Career matching – Holland’s Theory
o
Strengths, weaknesses – create an
action plan
o
SMART goals – use technique to write
career goals
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Create, draft and present
o
Enterprising career development –
developing enterprise self assessment
o
Career Life cycle
o
Internal/external career change
factors
remaining employable in constantly changing
workplaces, including: undertaking training and upskilling, networking and e-networking
o
Retraining and updating skills
o
Career specialisation growth and
change
considering labour market information to identify
employment opportunities, including: selfemployment opportunities, business and product
development
Assessment Task 4: Investigation: Nature of Work
o
Formal training and education
o
Dealing with change
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8-10
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Assessment Task 3 – Production/Performance
Profile Matching
Entrepreneurial behaviours
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https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/s
mart-goals.php
o YR 12 RETREAT – Wed, Thurs, Fri
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Term 2
1
strategies to build and maintain a positive selfconcept for career development, including:
promoting yourself to others (EST), targeting job
searching to match own personal profile, identify
personal and professional learning opportunities
and understand their link to career development,
the value of participating in lifelong learning
designed to support career goals
Career and Enterprise General
12 – Michael Carolan
pg 38 – 59; 22 – 23
taking personal risks when making career
decisions, including: relocating, accepting less pay,
taking a gap year, undergoing re-training
Career and Enterprise General
12 – Michael Carolan
pg 179-189
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CAREER AND ENTERPRISE GENERAL
Year 12 Program 2017
Assessment Task 5: Electronic IPP
Career development and management
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2–3
o
Career myths and realities
o Career pathways opportunities
strategies that give an individual an advantage in
o Sources of jobs
the workplace, including: taking advantage of work
opportunities, undertaking training, seeking learning o Refine IPP
opportunities
o Refine E-portfolio
strategies to assist in making decisions in a work
context, including: choosing from a set of predetermined options, using a formal decision-making
process
Career and Enterprise General
12 – Michael Carolan
pg 256 - 263
Online e-portfolio
https://www.weebly.com/au
IPP
Career Portfolio
Examine personal progress in each of the following
career competencies:
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make career-enhancing decisions - seeks advice,
feedback and support as required
 maintain balanced life and work roles - develops a
personal, school and work timetable to manage all
commitments
 understand the changing nature of life and work
roles - identifies changes in personal roles and
commitments that will occur in the school to postschool transition
 understand, engage in and manage the careerbuilding process - sets personal learning challenges
using formal and informal learning opportunities
Gaining and keeping work
o Finding work
4–5

location of job opportunities, including: newspapers,
websites, social and professional networking,
professional associations
o
Sources of jobs – online, networking,
jobactive, specialist agencies,
employer associations, employment
agencies, print media
Career and Enterprise General
12 – Michael Carolan
pg 115-135
Guest Speaker – Recruitment
company manager
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CAREER AND ENTERPRISE GENERAL
Year 12 Program 2017
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interpret requirements in a job advertisement,
o Job seeking network
including: job description, job location, qualifications o E-networks
required, selection criteria, expression of interest
o Resumes
requirements, application process and deadline
o Job advertisements – job
strategies for successfully applying for a job,
descriptions/job specifications
including: writing a job application letter,
o Application process
participating in an interview situation
o Job applications
o
Job interviews
Task 6: Externally Set Task (TBA)
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Learning to Learn
 Identify personal and professional skills and attributes, and understand their link to career development
 Strategies to build and maintain a positive self-concept for career development, including promoting yourself to others
Gaining and keeping work
 Features of the personality types outlined in Holland’s Theory of Career Choice (1985) and how they relate to career choice
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CAREER AND ENTERPRISE GENERAL
Year 12 Program 2017
Week
Key teaching points
Semester 2 – Unit 4
Work skills
 adapt communication skills to show respect for
differences within the work place, including: values,
beliefs, cultural expectations
Term 2
8-10
Term 3
1
Strategies and processes for resolving conflict in the
workplace, including:
 informal strategies and processes, such as,
communicating concerns through supportive
relationships, being tolerant of others, adopting a
positive approach to resolving differences, and internal
mediation
 formal processes, such as, arbitration processes,
industrial tribunal hearings and trade union
intervention
Lesson Content
Resources
o
Individual differences
o
Differing values and beliefs
Career and Enterprise
General 12 – Michael
Carolan
o
Differing cultural expectations
pg 220 - 249
o
Cross cultural communication
o
Interpersonal conflict
o
Conflict resolution – formal/informal
o
Conciliation, trade unions, arbitration
o
Workplace technology – manufacturing and
service technology
o
Information and communications
technology – rights, responsibilities and
appropriate use, legal rights and
responsibilities, policies and protocols
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work rights and protocols in the use of technology,
including: legal rights and responsibilities (for
example, copyright implications), procedures and
expectations in the workplace
Assessment Task 7: Investigation - Conflict Resolution
The nature of work
o Efficiency and productivity

the interrelationships between individual efficiency,
workplace productivity and sustainability

the use of performance management as a tool to
improve individual efficiency and workplace
productivity
2-3
o
Job satisfaction – intrinsic motivators,
individual efficicency, employee
expectations
o
Environmental/sustainability issues
o
Performance management – employee
Career and Enterprise
General 12 – Michael
Carolan
pg 88 – 91; 290 - 317
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CAREER AND ENTERPRISE GENERAL
Year 12 Program 2017
reviews, appraisal process
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4-5
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6-7
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considerations for individuals in the workplace,
including: pay and conditions, ethical considerations,
including following the code of conduct
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o
Pay and conditions – wages, salaries,
commissions, superannuation, leave and
allowances
the concepts of organisational restructuring and
workplace reform
o
Ethics, accountability and responsibility
o
Organisational restructuring

the impact of organisational restructuring on individual
career development
o
Reform and restructuring – issues to
consider

o
the concept of work/life balance
Work/life balance – causes of work/life
imbalance, flexible work arrangements,
family-friendly workplaces
Assessment Task 8: Response – Problem Solving in the workplace
Entrepreneurial behaviours
o Global enterprise – international business
links, consumer gaps and niche markets,
 being enterprising in a global economy, including:
using technology
making international business links, identifying
o Work related problems – employee, client,
consumer gaps, using technology (including online
equipment and process problems
groups)
o Problem solving tools – SWOT analysis,
80-20, IASM
 steps in problem solving within the work place,
including: identifying the problem, applying a decisionmaking process, such as SWOT (strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, threats), creating an action
plan to execute the solution
Assessment Task 9: Production/Performance – Job Opportunity
Learning to learn
o Managing change

the need for ongoing self-assessment when
responding to change, including: personal life,
professional life
o
Retraining and updating skills
o
Managing finances
o
Changing circumstances
Career and Enterprise
General 12 – Michael
Carolan
pg 202- 212
Career and Enterprise
General 12 – Michael
Carolan
pg 182 - 199
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CAREER AND ENTERPRISE GENERAL
Year 12 Program 2017
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responding to change and how it may impact an
individual’s career, including: retraining, updating
skills, managing finances, coping with unemployment
o
Budgeting
o
Dealing with unemployment
o
Being proactive

the need to undertake personal and professional
development opportunities to maintain up-to-date skills
and knowledge
Gaining and keeping work
o sources of jobs
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methods of finding job opportunities, including cold
canvassing
o
Cold canvassing – face to face, letter,
phone and email, Social media canvassing
o
Innovative job-seeking strategies –
youtube, website, live performance, blog,
digital portfolio
o
refine e – portofolio
o
refine resume
o
refine general cover letter
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awareness of innovative contemporary strategies for
gaining employment, such as: YouTube promotion,
live performance
Task 10: IPP/Career Portfolio – Electronic Portfolio
Career development and management

9-10
refine own electronic career portfolio
Career and Enterprise
General 12 – Michael
Carolan
pg 261 - 275
E-portfolio
Resume
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formats for job applications
o
prepare job applications
Career portfolio
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formats for cover letters
o
participate in mock interviews
o
goal setting
Mock interview
scenarios
http://wace1516.scsa.wa.edu.au/syllabus-and-support-materials/humanities-and-social-sciences/career-and-enterprise
Career and Enterprise – General 12 / ATAR 11 – Michael Carolan (Deliver Educational Consulting)
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