24 October 2011

1. National Partnerships on Youth and Transitions – Your thoughts?
2. Save the Date – CDAA End of Year Event – 24th November
3. Reinvent Your Career Expo Success
4. Featured events – Professional Development & Industry Expos
5. What’s News in NSW Job Market?
6. Join the Conversations on LinkedIn
7. Join our next NSW Division Committee Meeting
8. Request for Newsletter submissions

National Partnerships on Youth and Transitions – Your thoughts?

DEEWR is seeking feedback from CDAA members on the National Partnerships agreement on Youth and Transitions. To enable those practitioners who are involved in those partnerships to comment on your experiences to date, we have developed a short survey regarding specific elements of the Partnerships.

Please take a few minutes to complete the survey by Monday 31st October by visiting: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WGHJ3BR

CDAA National Executive Committee will collate all feedback and report to be sent to DEEWR in November.

Save the Date – CDAA End of Year Event – Thursday 24th November, 2011
Put it in your diaries! - A chance to catch up with CDAA colleagues and reflect on goals for the next year. Full details to follow shortly.

Reinvent Your Career Expo Success

35 practitioners came together, responding to over 600 enquiries, delivering 10 workshops and 6 seminar topics over the 2 days of the Expo. The excellent response from practitioners meant that we were able to set up 10 tables all day Saturday. Sadly our numbers were fewer on Sunday and despite some Herculean effort we still had to disappoint many enquirers on Sunday afternoon. Some chose to be contacted after the Expo which were are now systematically processing. It was fantastic to see so many new faces which is a great sign of the vibrancy of the Association. With continued support next year we can build even a better response. All ready we are putting in place facilities to capture enquiry data electronically so that we can more effectively and efficiently respond to requests.

This year we had a lot more enquiries about CDAA, professional standards and the Find a Practitioner function on the CDAA website. I also noticed increased interest in CDAA opinion on trends within the industry. This is sound evidence that CDAA is becoming known as a lead Association and voice within the industry. With the support from members like which we had this year this can only grow.

In addition to the tireless workers many thanks must go to Laurence Fleming, Julie Gee and Narelle Hess for their tremendous organisational capacity. To Nic and his team at RYC for their continued support and the our sponsors without whom we wouldn’t have the opportunity to so successfully market the CDAA brand.

Allan Gatenby,CDAA NSW Division vice President

Featured Events – Professional Development & Industry Expos

The CDAA NSW Divisional Newsletter will aim to let our members know of learning events hosted by a variety of third party providers. The CDAA does not endorse or vouch for the quality of the event or training provider, we simply wish to keep you abreast of new and different learning events that might be of interest to our members.

Professional Development Events & Webinars:

Guardian Careers: Live Q&A
Various, Online (10pm AEST)
Click here for more information on next webinar

Mindfulness at Work: An Introduction – Marian Kratzing
4th-5th November, Sydney
Click here for more information

Attrition in the trades: Does it really matter
2nd November, 2-3pm (AEDT), Online
Click here for more information for

Hunter Social Enterprise Forum
11th November, 2011, Newcastle
Click here for further information

Starting a Private Practice in Psychology or Counselling
20 November, Sydney
Click here for more information

P.S. You can log up to 15 hours CPD on evolve for attending professional development or academic study beyond entry level.

Industry Open Days & Expos:

Macquarie University Open Day Videos
Click here for more information

Architects Talk Shop
25th October, Sydney
Click here for more information

Grafton TAFE Campus Annual Market Day
5th November, Grafton
Click here for more information

Day in the life of a Personal Trainer / Natural Therapist / Massage Therapist
19th November, Sydney
Click here for more information

Southern Cross University Information Day
5th December, Coffs Harbour
7th December, Lismore
8th December, Tweed Heads
Click here for more information

P.S. You can log up to 5 hours CPD on evolve for industry visits and up to 5 hours CPD for information interviews.

In the news – latest feature articles of interest
Every month the CDAA NSW Newsletter will features links to articles we think might be of interest to NSW members:

Blacktown boys laying groundwork for careers
‎ BRAD Gillespie is hoping his 10-week pre-apprenticeship course will help land him a job with Ausgrid. The 18-year-old from Quakers Hill and Seven Hills’ Kieran Hottes were two of 25 graduates from the seventh annual Ausgrid Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pre-apprenticeship program.

Clearer path offers brighter future to students who inspire mates
‎FOR too long indigenous school students have failed to realise their potential, often succumbing to peer pressure and trying to avoid school. But a pilot program aims to break the cycle with a focus on the brightest.

Doctors by the dozen in Dunedoo ‎
One hundred and fifty of the country’s future doctors, nurses and allied health professionals spent their long weekend bonding and learning at a Dunedoo farm as part of a program aimed at luring the next generation of health workers to careers in the bush.‎

‎NSW job seekers battling for limited openings
The chances of getting a job in mining regions are steadily improving as the resources boom takes off, but job seekers in NSW and Victoria face far more competition.

Job cuts: coming to a suburb near you‎
It's the prickle at the back of the neck felt by mortgage-belt bank workers in Sydney and Melbourne: the forthcoming rounds of financial services' job cuts. The banks' declining profit growth tells you we are likely to see sizeable redundancies soon in the largest banks. In a small way, some lay-offs have already begun.

P.S. You can log up to 12 hours CPD on evolve for reading professional publications including web-based material.

Join the Conversation on LinkedIn

Have you joined the CDAA or Private Practitioners or Careers Debate group on LinkedIn? Looking to get a question answered by expert career practitioners across Australia or to share your expertise? Here are the discussions taking place this fortnight – login and join the conversation or get your questions answered:

• Lobby to make professional career development services tax deductible
• CICA Professional Standards and You - How do you perceive the professional standards impact on Career Development as a profession and as an industry?
  The word "passion" is used by many career professionals to describe an ideal career choice. At the risk of committing heresy, I think the term "passion" is overused and potentially meaningless.
• Two Recessions! Are you holding on or letting go of the old economy
• How do we as career researchers, educators, and practitioners influence policy makers to make access to career development activities a priority?
  

Making the most of the NSW Division Newsletter
The NSW committee would like our newsletter to be informative and accessible to all our members. It’s a useful way of sharing information, keeping abreast of learning events and learning more about the CDAA. The committee would like to hear from you if you....

• want to advertise in the CDAA newsletter?
  
• want to contribute to an article or story?
  
• want to share events happening in your local area?
  
• want to become involved in the committee?
  

Submit your question or contribution to Narelle, CDAA NSW Division Communications Officer, nhess@chall.com.au or 02 9221 6422.

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