There are so many career websites and tools that it can be hard to work out what to use. Here's where BECOME fits!
When we work with schools and school systems to develop a comprehensive career strategy, we often find it helps to break down the broad concept of Career Development into its distinct components.
These diverse elements are commonly encapsulated by the acronym CEIAG, which stands for Careers Education, Information, Advice, and Guidance.
| Aspect of Career Development | Description | Goal | Example tools |
| Career Education | Teaches people how to think about their career. | Self-efficacy over their learning and life. | BECOME |
| Career Information | High quality, accessible, unbiased information about careers. | Make it easy for every individual to find the information they need when they need it. | Career Tools |
| Career Advice | Professional advice from a qualified CDP. | Provide high quality, personalised advice and support especially for key decision points. | Career Tools provides good utility to support e.g. appointment booking and recording |
| Career Guidance | Tools that provide externally generated guidance or ideas. | Provide additional boosts of insight and targeted practical knowledge e.g. resume best practice. |
MyFuture - MyCareerProfile & JobSeeker resources |
At BECOME we don't try to be a one-stop shop, we sit firmly in the Career Education space.
We focus on and are recognised as being the global benchmark in K-12 career education by the OECD. You can check out all the details about the program on our website and in the Educator Info Pack. BECOME provides:
- A dynamic student web app for personalised career exploration and inspiration.
- Engaging lessons and programs, ready for all educators to teach and designed to change student, teacher and parent perceptions of how inspiring careers education should be.
- PD and support for every school to co-design a program that will have real impact on your students' awareness, aspiration and agency for their future.
Adding value to your whole ecosystem
All the schools we work with also have a careers website to provide information and utility for their students. Many also use career assessments at certain points, have work experience and offer career counselling. BECOME as a part of quality career education supports all your activities and resources to be more effective and more efficient.
- BECOME boosts engagement with career information resources by driving students and parents to interact with them earlier, more often and more deeply.
- When students have completed the BECOME program, they arrive at subject selection interviews and key decision points ready to articulate their own thinking and considerations.
- The data a careers leader can access via BECOME on the emerging aspirations and career readiness of younger cohorts enables proactive targeting and planning of career initiatives across the school.
- When external assessment tools or tests are used, they can be planned into the BECOME sequence to ensure they are understood as an added boost of insight to reflect on, not 'the answer'.
- When we co-design your roll-out, whichever grades you're looking at we start with your context and what works already to make sure the BECOME program maximises the impact of everything you do within the careers space.
BECOME provides inspiration before information!
Other FAQs
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