What You Will Learn

A new paradigm is emerging around us – the fields of education, training and work are increasingly integrated, with a shift towards career development across all sectors being merged into other activities, rather than a stand-alone specialisation. And the shift from personal to digital interaction continues at pace.

How to best navigate this integration and grasp the opportunities to remain relevant?

Negotiating the current challenges and opportunities presented by Career Development Integration: Experienced and Respected Speakers sharing their experience

Integrating understanding of future opportunities for work into career advice

  • Human and machine not human versus machine, in the future now of work and how business expects and supports 'K through grey' learning.
  • Integrating understanding of the future opportunities for careers in space into career advice.
  • VET delivering real skills integrated into real careers.
  • A pathways approach to better integrate the world of education and the world of work.
  • Linking theory, research, and practical career interventions as they happen in the cotton industry, as an example for the future of agriculture.
  • Career counselling practice integrated as a corporate employee benefit, within human resources, to drive employee engagement and career well-being.

Developing career practitioners’ skills and knowledge to create an integrated model of excellence in practice

  • Keeping our deepest values in play through major life transitions and helping clients do the same.
  • Development of the teenage brain is a complicated ongoing process. How to integrate this information into career practice
  • Understanding what influence professional standards should have on understanding of professional identity.
  • Integrating existing narrative career counselling skills to start conversations about mental health.
  • Career practitioners have vital roles to play but need to play well with other practitioners; therefore, upskilling about interprofessional practice is essential while keeping scope of practice in sight.

Integration of career advice into school, vocational and higher education environments

  • Primary schools are introducing students, parents and teachers to the concept of strengths, interests and work-place values 
  • Career education concepts and learning successfully integrated into the crowded school curriculum. 
  • Working with middle school students focused on integrating age appropriate career development with hands-on STEM learning. 
  • Integrating career and employability development with discipline-based curricula presents many challenges but also wonderful opportunities for universities 
  • The cognitive information processing differentiated career service delivery model is a cost-effective way for schools to integrate career development theory and career intervention and research into practice. 
  • Developing digital career literacy skills

Managing a successful business in the face of on-line competition through integrating new practices

  • Integrating more financial literacy and business skills into personal and professional practice. 
  • How to use social media effectively in career practice. 
  • What worked to promote my career practice business online?

Improved responsiveness to the career development of individuals and populations through integration

  • Providing successful integrated community career development services. 
  • How to maintain integrity of services amidst political pressure and shrinking budgets. 
  • How countries are addressing the career development challenges faced by military spouses. 
  • Integrating career development learnings into a corporate social responsibility program. 
  • How the Career Development profession can play a pivotal role in bringing about meaningful and effective collaboration to address significant social, economic and political challenges. 
  • How trans-affirmative models of service delivery can deliver critical outcomes for an often marginalised and misunderstood population, while also contributing to the legitimacy and effectiveness of the career development sector at large.

Integrating online career assessment tools into practice

  • Job Outlook – integrating change in every aspect of careers and jobs 
  • The Beyond School Study Guide 
  • Course Seeker website 
  • Learning Potential app and website 
  • AGRADES

Integrating past experiences and new insights to create a sustainable and satisfying future for older Australians

  • Practical strategies and tools for working with older Australians looking to change careers or remain relevant at work. 
  • Practical advice Career Practitioners might like to use to assist their clients to undertake retirement planning.




The Canberra Conference is the only national event completely focussed on career development. It will give me 4 International Keynotes, a choice from 3 International Workshops and 4 Concurrent Workshops, a choice of 5 Concurrent Presentations, an Excellence Awards Dinner with Speaker, a Poster Exhibition, a Trade Exhibition, a Networking Drinks event and time to catch up with colleagues. Over 2 days in a 5 Star venue, for $890. I have to be there."






Platinum Sponsor

Australian National University is a world-leading university in Australia’s capital. Excellence is embedded in their approach to research and education.

Conference Convenor

CDAA is Australia’s cross-sectoral community of career development practitioners, with members in every state and territory and across all sectors of the profession.

Conference Organiser

GEMS Event Management Australia is the Professional Conference Organiser (PCO) for the 2019 CDAA National Conference.

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