Careers Life College

Career Counselling and Coaching

The highly acclaimed Career Counselling and Coaching Workshop has been designed to provide career professionals with a new and proven methodology to assist their clients to manage personal growth and career-life transition.

This 3 day 'accelerated' accreditation program is designed to provide a "hands on" toolkit of career counselling skills that you can apply immediately to dramatically improve the career-life transition, career-life engagement and post-education success of your clientele.

More than 2000 career professionals have completed this workshop rating it among the best training they have undertaken in careers. Furthermore, this training articulates to a, Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in Careers Counselling*.

The workshop provides a 25% exemption* from the Graduate Certificate and gives you the experience and knowledge to incorporate into your practice.

Additionally, this 3 day accreditation will give you access to the most cost-efficient career management tools available. 

Applicable for career professionals working with clientele from students to retiree's you will have access to more than 10 reports for secondary schools, 10 reports for adults  and a complete online client management system. 

Learn how you can add value to your educational practice, adult clientele and private practice.   Download a brochure here.

Avoid the isolation of being a stand alone careers practitioner. Your Career-Life College Accreditation will give you the advantages and credibility of being a member of an internationally recognised and branded career planning organisation.

Who can undertake this accreditation?

This accreditation is not available to everyone. Ideally you will already have one or two degrees and 5 to 10+ years significant career experience in some counselling capacity. For instance, persons who have undertaken accreditation training include:

  • career teachers
  • career counsellors
  • career management consultants
  • human resource professionals
  • psychologists
  • masters and PhD students (counselling)
  • university and TAFE counsellors
  • local community partnership personnel
  • other persons with significant relevant career experience

If you're unsure if you qualify, contact us to discuss your professional circumstances.

Competencies developed

  1. Promote career guidance
  2. Apply career theories
  3. Use assessment instruments
  4. Work within a structured counselling process
  5. Facilitate the counselling relationship
  6. Provide support for clients implementing a course of action
  7. Reflect and improve upon counselling skills
  8. Obtain and analyse personal data
  9. Provide career guidance
  10. Provide careers information
  11. Analyse and apply labour market information
  12. Conceptualise and apply information about the Australian economy
  13. Prepare and deliver clients' career guidance reports
  14. Providing career-life coaching
  15. Provide job search support
  16. Designing and managing career development plans
  17. Planning a careers education program
  18. Plan and develop a private practice

This Career Counsellor Practitioner training will provide you with the skills to

  • Develop your professional career counselling competencies
  • Learn how to apply clinical counselling strategies that meet individual career-life development needs (according to your client group)
  • Understand how personality preferences manifest themselves in behavioural tendencies and learning strategies
  • Develop strategies to improve educational / workforce engagement
  • Provide a structured, reliable and best practice career-life development program
  • Improve your advice to relevant parties and allied professionals
  • Print customised client profile reports for students, adults or corporate clients
  • Provide 10 Student Reports and 10 Adult Reports (according to your clientele)
  • Easily maintain data files on clients to validate career advice should it be required

*If you undertake the Graduate Certificate the full cost of the workshop is $1200AUD aligned with the fee for the other individual subjects.  If you need clarification, please telephone Elise Halloran +61 3 8844 9444.


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