The OECD Career Readiness project shines a light on the ways we can improve education, employment and life outcomes for all young people through more effective careers education.
BECOME is featured in the OECD's Examples of Effective Career Guidance, praised as an example of innovation in inquiry learning combined with technology.
BECOME is an effective way to open career conversations with students earlier in their school years, as recommended by the OECD's research.
BECOME has been invited to present twice at the OECD's Disrupted Futures conferences. You can watch both papers as videos below.
We found that student aspirations were narrow - often even narrower than the international data analysed by the OECD. They are aiming for a short list of jobs that generally conform to traditional social, demographic and gender roles.
Schools report students taking a passive approach to their future, a finding backed up by research by Monash University.
But when students engage in the BECOME program early (from year 5 up), explore career ideas openly, often, and across the curriculum they become excited by a wider view of the world of work.
The data show a significant jump in student optimism, confidence and conviction that school is relevant to their future. This is what we present in our papers below, with the data and research under our findings.
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