Category Archives: Career Planning

How To Stay Job Ready If You Get Injured At Work

Getting injured at work can be a stressful experience for yourself, your family and your colleagues. Here's how to keep yourself job ready....


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

A diploma is a good way to start and with online learning, it has never been easier to study flexibly and achieve the outcomes you want....


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...


What you can do to secure your career in the current economy

This year Australian markets have seen growth and taken beatings. Through it all, many industries continue to flourish. Let’s look at the current economy in light of your career strategy. The economy and your career The Australian Stock...


These Skills Will Help You Get Ahead at Work

Success in your career requires a solid education and training of the specific role as well as a foundation of interpersonal skills. These are commonly referred to as ‘soft skills’, although there is nothing soft about how impactful...


Simple Changes to Decrease Decision Fatigue

Are you suffering from decision fatigue? These strategies can help minimise the accumulative draining effect to help overcome it....


How Important are Digital Skills in Different Industries?

In the current age of technology, it is reasonable for employers to expect a high level of digital skill from the people they employ. Technical skills in most industries are incredibly important and crucial to productive work. Competent...


11 Negotiating Strategies in Purchasing and Procurement

When you're working in purchasing or procurement, you need to know how to negotiate. Here are 11 collaborative problem-solving strategies....


How to Form Positive Supplier Relationships

Suppliers are an important part of supply chain management, so it's critical to cultivate effective working relationships with them....


EOFY Career Stocktake Tips

With the end of the financial year upon us, it’s a great time to take stock of the past six to twelve months. Compiling receipts and preparing tax returns might be the focus for some. For others, it’s...


How to Start your Own Business as a Tradie

When you are starting your own business as a tradie, there are lots of things to consider, from funding to competition and plenty more. When every detail, no matter how small, is not considered, we see small businesses...


9 Questions To Engage Employees

Here are nine questions to engage employees and initiate positive coaching strategies to create an engaging environment at work....


How To Choose the Right Course For You

For many, trying to figure out the right course to choose is one of the most challenging parts of further education. What if you make the wrong decision? What if you don’t like the content? What if it...


9 Reasons your Career Needs a Diploma

When you are considering if a diploma is relevant to your career, it will ultimately depend on if you think having a diploma will help you achieve your goals faster. There are countless benefits to obtaining further education,...


Why 25-35 is the Best Age to Change Careers

Choosing to change careers can be a daunting and stressful decision in your professional life. If you have put in the time, effort and money into building your current career, understandably, the decision to change tact is a...


How To Build Your Leadership Skills as a Manager

Most people are not born as natural leaders, but the great news is that the leadership skills required to be a manager are easily learnt. On the flipside, you might be a natural leader, but chances are you...


Do I Need a Qualification to Start a Business?

There are many fundamental elements to starting a business. It’s important to have a grasp on how much work goes into a company’s creation. With many skills and tasks to complete, having the guiding support of a diploma...


A Day in The Life of a Quality Auditor

You'll find no two days will ever be the same in the life of a quality auditor, but here are some regular tasks you can expect....


Best Work from Home Jobs in Australia

Today, more people are choosing lifestyle over career ladder-climbing and want to know what are the best work from jobs in Australia. Many people still think working from home is a pipe-dream that only a few can achieve....


Examples of Grit in The Workplace

Grit can seem like a gift some people are naturally born with, yet there are effective ways to develop it in life and at work. Examples of grit in the workplace can look like staying cool under pressure,...


How To Have a Career Growth Conversation With Your Boss

Have a productive growth conversation with your boss and take control of your career with these three achievable steps....


How To Talk To Your Boss About Career Growth

What is the best way to talk to your boss about career growth education? What should you focus on in the discussion? Here are our tips....


How To Make Your Resume Stand Out Without Experience

It’s hard to get work if you lack experience. Here's how to polish your resume so you can get a job with no or little experience....


CV Success Tips for Mature Age Workers

Set your CV up for success and stop selling yourself short! CAL’s learning coaches are available to give CV success tips to all students. The coaches notice that often mature age workers fail to recognise and value the...


How To Ask Your Boss For Time Off For Study

Asking the boss for leave to study can be stressful. Asking for study leave is more so since there’s no mandatory leave allowance for you to study. There’s no guarantee that the time you want to take off...


5 Ways to Improve Relationships at Work

From offices and outdoors, to transport and teaching, no two workplaces are the same – but they are all filled with people. Establishing, maintaining and improving relationships with your co-workers at work is critical if you (and they)...


How to give your Career a Spring makeover

Spring has sprung, and with the year being well and truly past the half-way mark, there’s never been a better time for a career spring clean. How is your year going, what’s been great and what’s been mediocre?...