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Career Minded

A career guidance exploration service for Australian senior secondary school students considering university-level education

Career Minded™ Australia - Helping you make informed and confident decisions about your future.

Our career guidance service includes:

Access to all Career Minded PIVOTAL™ Approach online assessments.

Interpretation of your assessment results by a Career Minded psychologist and career guidance counsellor.

Preparation & delivery of your personalised career guidance report.

A copy of your Career Minded PIVOTAL Approach™ work booklet which is full of tips and activities designed to assist you make the best choices for your future.

Access to your personalised PIVOTAL Approach™ interpretation video to assist with career and course choices.

Access to our exclusive Career Minded University & Career Opportunities First Step Exploration Guide, which will significantly help you utilise a time efficient and structured approach to reviewing, discovering and exploring potential university courses to undertake.

3 months of email support – to answer any questions you may have in relation to your Career Minded PIVOTAL Approach™ assessment results.

A copy of your Career Minded™ Success Strategies booklet designed to assist you with the transition from secondary school to tertiary education.

Access to the Career Minded™ ongoing PinPoint support program.

Your Investment $220GST incl.

"With many families investing considerable amounts of money in their children's secondary school and tertiary education, it simply makes sense that some investment is placed in exploring potential tertiary study options and future career opportunities that may best suit them."

Hugh Wakefield
BA. MA Psych. Maps. CDAA. Principal,
Career Minded, Australia.

Our winning approach to
Career Guidance

We utilise our exclusive and highly effective PIVOTAL™ Approach to help you identify the best university courses and potential careers to pursue 

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Why Career Minded?

We are career guidance specialists

We’ve been providing a quality Career exploration service to Australian senior secondary School students for over 15 years.

Career Guidance

Our Career guidance Counsellors are fully qualified members of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and professional members of the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA). We have significant relevant industry experience, including extensive graduate recruitment experience to draw upon. 

We help you along the way

We are committed to helping you identify and develop your unique competitive advantage, and with assisting you to secure your ideal graduate job role on completion of your degree.

Here’s how

We provide you with access to our Career Minded Pivotal Approach ™ Assessment and Feedback Process

We help you with the transition from secondary school to University guidance service

We help you secure a graduate job through our PinPoint Graduate Recruitment preparation Program for final year University Students.

More information for parents, students, and schools

Career Guidance - Parents

For Parents :
Helping you and your child make informed decisions.
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Career Guidance - School Student

For Students :
Your path to career success.
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Career Guidance - Student

For Schools:
A simple, efficient, and effective approach.
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Client
Testimonials

"I used the Career Minded service 5 years ago and I’m currently working in an accounting practice after completing a Bachelor of Commerce degree at UNSW. Career Minded significantly helped me work out the best career to pursue and which uni course to take . I am more than happy to recommend Career Minded to you."
Ryan Moore​Student
"A highly valuable service that provided many key and important insights for my son to explore.”
Susan Johnson​Mother of Liam Johnson, Year 11 Student​
"The Career Minded program helped me choose my university course with confidence."
RASydney University Student
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Career Minded Overview

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Unfortunately, No. We are focused exclusively on assisting Australian senior secondary school students considering tertiary level education and related professions only.

No, you’ll find them more interesting than difficult to complete. Remember to answer the questions honestly as they relate to the person you are.  Also, remember that these are not tests but assessments designed to find out about you and your individual preferences.

It should only take you about 30 minutes to complete the assessments. Make sure you find a nice quiet spot, free from distraction to complete them. Don’t forget to watch the assessment video prior to starting the assessment.

After you complete our assessments, we examine your responses and produce your personalised report. This usually takes a few days and is an important part of the process to ensure you receive an accurate and relevant report, that best describes you.

We need a few days to prepare your personalised feedback report which we will send via a secure link to your nominated email address and a hard copy to your home, or school address, depending on which you prefer.

We usually send your personalised video feedback about a week after you receive your report. This gives you time to review your report prior to viewing your feedback video.

Yes, your preferences can change as you mature and gain a better understanding of yourself. We focus only on assessing senior secondary school students who generally have a strong level of self awareness and a clear understanding of what preferences and strengths they have.

Generally the assessment results and feedback we provide is well received. If your report doesn’t seem to be an accurate reflection of the person you are, please let us know at questions@careerminded.com.au and we will contact you to discuss the content of your report.

The university guide is updated yearly – so the version you are referencing was most likely updated within the last 3 – 6 months, if not more recently.

Of course! – we are on this journey together. We set a 3 month limit to encourage you to focus on the decision making process rather than letting it drag out. The sooner you make your decisions regarding potential future study options the sooner you can start focusing on getting the best results during the final stages of your secondary school education. If you have a questions after the 3 month period, then send them through to: questions@careerminded.com.au and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible, usually within 24 – 48 hours.

The impact of Artificial Intelligence and developments in technology: It’s important to note that we only highlight professions for you to explore that our current research suggests will be impacted in a positive way by advancements in technology, and specifically, Artificial Intelligence.

For Parents

Helping You And Your Child Make Informed Decisions

  • Did you know that over 1 in 5 students drop out of university during their first year of study, primarily due to poor course choices?
  • Many other students, realising that their selected course is not suitable, switch to another degree course resulting in potential stress, wasted time, and a greater HECS debt.
  • We help your child avoid the common and painful mistakes new university students often make.
  • At Career Minded we assist your child discover study and career options that best align with their unique preferences, interests, values, and talents.
  • We reduce the chance of your son or daughter experiencing the potential stress associated with poor university course selection; additionally saving them time and you money!

 

“With many families investing considerable amounts of money, effort, and time into their children’s secondary school & tertiary education, it simply makes sense that some investment is placed in exploring potential tertiary study options and future career opportunities.”

Hugh Wakefield. Principal – Career Minded Australia

For Students

Your Path To Career Success

Here’s how we help you get the best outcomes from your career exploration:

We assist you to make confident decisions.

We provide you with relevant and focused information about your preferences, interests, values and talents to assist you explore and discover courses & careers that best suit you.

We help you get the most out of your Career Exploration Time.

The personalised interpretative report and supporting information that we provide you with is personalised, easily digested, and highly relevant.We also help you make the best use of your career exploration and decision making time by helping you choose the best tertiary intuition to attend, and providing you with up to date information about current and future occupational opportunities – key factors that need to be considered when making important decisions about your future.

We inspire you to perform at Your Best

Once you gain a clearer understanding of your future study and career options and opportunities, you will become more motivated and dedicated to achieving your academic objectives during the later stages of your secondary education.

For Schools

A Simple & Effective Approach

  • Students can complete all our Career Minded Assessments in a secure online environment, at a time which suits them.
  • We provide your school with an on-site group testing option at no additional cost if required.
  • We offer discounted rates calculated on the number of students your school enrolls in our program in any one year.
  • We offer a 30 minute Introduction Career Minded Information Presentation service to address questions relating to our service that we deliver to groups of parents and / or teachers
  • We provide online access to all student’s assessment results to your School’s Careers Counsellor.
  • We attend school career days to assist students and parents understand the Career Minded benefits and processes.
  • We give a percentage of all profit back to the school for the purchase of career development related resources.
  • We store all student information on a secure encrypted server.
  • Please note: We so not use Aptitude Testing at Career Minded as we believe the disadvantages of using them significantly outweighs the advantages and they can be detrimental to the psychological development of the student. Aptitude test scores can be interpreted as immutable which can have a significant negative impact on a students career exploration. Research shows that they do not offer a complete understanding of a student’s potential.
  • We do not share individual student details or personal data with any third party.

Privacy Policy

Sharing and Use of Personal Information

Career Minded Australia does not share individual details or personal data with any third-party individuals, entities, or organisations. Payments are directly provided to the payment provider, Stripe in our case. Career Minded has no access to nor stores your payment details.

Any other data we collect and use is only for research purposes designed to improve our service and improve general understanding relating to career exploration and is used in a non-individual manner ensuring that individuals who utilise Career Minded’s service are unidentifiable. We take reasonable steps, at all times, to ensure the protection of your personal information.

Use of Personal information

For each visitor to reach the site, we expressively collect the following non-personally identifiable information: what Career Minded videos are viewed and how long individuals spend on the careerminded.com.au site.

Career Minded Australia reserves the right to make amendments to this privacy policy at any time. If you have objections to the privacy, you should not access or use the site.

Refund Policy

If you are in anyway not satisfied with the service Career Minded Australia has provided to you, please contact us to discuss an agreed upon compensation which may include a full refund of your investment.

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We currently donate a percentage of or annual profits to Mahboba’s promise, and members of our staff donate significant amounts of their time to assist with the many tasks required to make this a successful Australian Aid Organisation: – www.mahbobaspromise.org

FAQ

We are focused exclusively on assisting Australian senior secondary school students considering Tertiary Level Education and related careers only

No, you’ll find them more interesting than difficult to complete. Remember to answer the questions honestly as they relate to the person you are.  Also, remember that these are not tests but assessments designed to find out about you and your individual preferences.

It should only take you about 40 – 45 minutes to complete the assessments. Make sure you find a nice quiet spot, free from distraction to complete them. Don’t forget to watch the assessment video prior to starting.

After you complete our assessments, we examine your responses and produce your personalised report. This usually takes a few days and is an important part of the process to ensure you receive an accurate and relevant report, that best describes you. Those who offer you an Immediate results service means that your assessment profile is generated solely by a computer and has not been reviewed for consistency and accuracy.

We need a few days to prepare your personalised feedback report which we will send via a secure link to your nominated email address and a hard copy should you request to your home or school address depending on which you prefer.

We usually send your personalised video feedback about a week after you receive your report. This gives you time to review your report prior to viewing your feedback video.

Yes they can change as you mature and gain a better understanding of yourself. We focus only on assessing senior secondary school students who generally have a strong level of self awareness and a clear understanding of what preferences and strengths they have.

Generally the assessment results and feedback we provide is well received. If your report doesn’t seem to be an accurate for you please let us know at questions@careerminded.com.au and we will contact you to discuss.

The university guide is updated yearly – so the version you are referencing was most likely updated within the last 3 – 6 months.

Of course! – we are on this journey together. We set a 3 month limit to encourage you to focus on the decision making process rather than letting it drag out. The sooner you make your decisions regarding potential future study options the sooner you can start focusing on getting the best results during the final stages of your secondary school education. If you have a questions after the 3 month period, then send them through to: questions@careerminded.com.au and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible, usually within 24 – 48 hours.

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