Category Archives: Career Planning

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How to Write a Cover Letter

In the competitive job market, a well-crafted cover letter can be the key to unlocking exciting career opportunities. A cover letter serves as your first impression and an opportunity to showcase your skills, experience, and enthusiasm to potential...


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How To Get 2 Free Online Courses: Our Real Outcomes Guarantee

At the College for Adult Learning, we’re dedicated to providing real-world results to our students. We are proud to offer our Real Outcomes Guarantee: the choice of two free online courses for our students upon completion.  We provide...


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Guide to Goal Setting: Free Template to Achieve Success

Are you ready to take control of your life and turn your dreams into reality? Setting and achieving goals is a powerful strategy that can propel you towards success and fulfilment. To help you on this transformative journey,...


How To Talk To Your Boss About the Skills and Training Boost

Are you working in a business and wanting to complete further education and training? Now could be the perfect time to take the next step in your study journey and create opportunities for success in your career. The...


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5 Reasons Why Advanced Diplomas are Better than Post-Grad

Advanced diplomas are fast becoming a popular choice in a range of study areas. Suppose you are looking for a postgraduate qualification or seeking to take your career to the next level with a solid foundation of theoretical...


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Why You Should Choose an Advanced Diploma Not a Degree

Everything you need to know When looking to take the next step in your career or begin further study, two popular choices to undertake are an advanced diploma or a bachelor’s degree. They provide a comprehensive qualification focused...


Why Diploma Qualifications are Important to Employers

To employers, diploma qualifications are important to show determination and initiative. An employer wants to see that you have taken the time to improve your knowledge and your skillset. Your qualification will be looked upon favourably by employers...


How to Future-Proof Your Career in an Age of Automation

Like it or not, we are living in a time that requires future-proofing yourself for the age of automation. Robots and artificial intelligence are both impacting the Australian workforce like never before. From drones to driverless cars, we’re...


Complete Guide to a Successful Career Transition

Is this the time to make a successful career transition? The events of 2020 have impacted workforces worldwide, unlike any single event since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Sectors like hospitality, tourism, and retail have borne the...


The Advantage Bespoke Online Courses will give You

In the world of online diplomas, all is not as it appears. Registered Training Organisations must operate within the standards of the Australian Quality Framework; however course content can vary significantly across providers. Many RTOs and online training...


Why Having a Business Diploma has Never Been More Important

Many people are wising up to the need to have a qualification like a Business Diploma as one of the best ways to learn valuable generalised business skills that can easily and successfully be applied in a specific...


How to Get Promoted in a Large Company

The key to unlocking internal promotions Many agree that small business is the backbone of our economy, and that’s certainly true to a point. After all, 1.4 million of the 2.3 million Australian small business employ less than...


A Guide to Career Development at Every Career Stage

Over the lifetime of your career, you will enter different career development stages. Getting clear on your career goals from the beginning and landing your first industry role is vital. What’s important is to remember that this focus...


Tips for a Successful Career Pivot to Working from Home

The days of a ‘job for life’ are long gone and the career pivot has become a new life skill for many. Almost a third of all workers change careers or jobs every twelve months. Most workers will...


5 Tips for Creating a Career Action Plan

Planning your career goals and pathways is a useful exercise to do and even more valuable in times of change and uncertainty. An Action and Development Plan is an essential resource to guide your career progression and help...


How to Know Which Diploma is Right for You

Choosing a Diploma or educational path can be an important milestone in your life. You want to go the extra mile to guarantee you are making the best decision for you and the goals that you have set...


How to Set and Achieve Career, Life and Daily Goals

The rush that comes from achieving your goals is one of life’s greatest pleasures. For many people, the idea of setting goals, let alone achieving them, can feel uncomfortable and lead to goal-setting resistance. However, the path towards...


How to Progress in your Career if you have Already Hit the Ceiling

At some point in everyone’s career, you will be faced with the feeling of being overlooked or undervalued as you butt your head up against a glass ceiling. Nowadays, even the stats can seem against you. It’s no...


Career Advancement Tips to Get Where you Want to Be

As a new decade begins, it is important to stay on top of important changes occurring across the global workforce. From technological advancements to the important development of soft skills, there are strategic ways to advance your career....


How your Life Skills and Experience can Help you Achieve a Diploma Qualification

There is no one-size-fits-all way to obtain your diploma, and there is no single type of person that is perfectly fit for seeking further education. Anyone, with a variety of different skills and experiences, can access higher education...


How to Earn and Ask for an End of Year Bonus

With the end of the year rapidly approaching, people’s minds and thoughts are beginning to turn to Christmas trees, presents, spending time with family, and maybe even a little holiday. For others, before the break begins, many start...


What does the New National Return to Work Strategy mean for You?

More than 500,000 Australians suffer from injuries or diseases related to employment every year, costing the economy almost $62 billion. The Australian Government recognises the huge economic and human cost of the problem and has recently released the...


How to be a Successful Leader

Leaders of the modern world in are required to be more aware and involved with their company, their employees, and their processes than ever before. To be a successful leader, you must ensure you provide balance to the...


A Guide to Returning to Work

There are many reasons why people return to work after spending time away. You may have had a new baby join your family, needed to care for a family member, taken time out to attend to your health,...


How to Stay Job Ready if you get Injured at Work

Getting injured at work can be an upsetting and stressful experience for yourself, your family and your colleagues. It can often mean extended periods of leave, time at home, and a potential loss of income or mobility. After...


What are the Core Workplace Skills you need?

Soft skills like communication, leadership, and conflict resolution, are all critical in an office environment. However, they are not the only important skills a candidate will need to succeed. Having the following practical and technical skills will be...


Best Ways to Work Remotely for Work and Study

Are you keen to understand how to work remotely? Work and study environments are not the same conventional structure they used to be in the past. Businesses are now hiring people who are looking for flexible workspaces. These...


How to Get a Promotion to Support Rising Living Costs

The average Australian will agree that living costs are continuing to rise. With workers feeling the pinch of increased housing prices, sky-high utility bills, childcare costs, and more, there has never been a more important time to increase...


How to Have it All with Flexible Study

We are all familiar with the saying, ‘you can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job’. Then, once you’ve got a ‘foot in the door’, the next thing to consider is the...


Make You and Your Job Redundancy Proof

Currently, 711,500 Australians are in the process of looking for work.That’s the highest number of jobless Australians since August 2018. Nearly twice that number are ‘underemployed’ or looking for more work. Even though the Reserve Bank considers a...