2012 ACS Career Adviser Seminars

Now in their ninth consecutive year, the ACS Seminars have proven to be a success for all career practitioners around Australia. These FREE seminars are a fantastic opportunity for career advisers to further develop their industry knowledge as well as network with top recruiting organisations and education providers. Best of all, you’ll receive a certificate of professional development that can be used towards your CPD requirements.

The seminars are specifically designed to promote national awareness about current industry information, which in turn, assists career advisers in providing support to their students.

Agenda for the 2012 ACS Seminars

The seminars consist of a variety of presentations and workshop sessions from different educational bodies throughout Australia. At the large seminars you will receive 10 presentations (10 minutes each) and 4 workshops (25 minutes each) through which you will rotate during the day. In the smaller seminars (Hobart, Gold Coast and Canberra) you will rotate through 9 workshop sessions.

The presentations are a great way to receive key information required to pass on to students. At the beginning of the day you will be provided with an information pack consisting of each PowerPoint presentation for you to follow along and write additional notes. The workshops provide the benefit of exclusive time with the presenter, where you are able to talk freely and have the presentation catered to your specific needs. During each of the breaks you will have the chance to network with key educational bodies and even receive additional information and goodies from their display stands.

For more information on each location and to see who will be presenting near you, head to each of the location tabs on the left hand side.

The 2012 ACS Seminar MC is Jenny Gleeson.

Jenny Gleeson is a Fellow of the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) and has run her own business, Lifeworx, for over three years. Her business spans across a plethora of workforce development areas such as strategic planning, professional development for staff and individuals, youth at risk and career development planning for Indigenous people. She has worked with a number of organisations to help them achieve their goals, including not-for-profits, government organisations, Indigenous communities and private RTOs.

Jenny won the Miles Morgan Award in 2007 for community career development and has recently returned from a Rotary Group Study Exchange program in Texas where she job-shadowed a variety of employers with regard to workforce development practices and re-entry programs.

Jenny’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Cultural Studies, a Graduate Certificate in Career Development and a Diploma of Secondary Education. She also holds qualifications in Leadership Development and Mentoring and is currently a mentor in the CDAA Pilot Program, mentoring a career practitioner to help her start her own private consulting business.

The 2012 ACS Career Adviser Seminars will run throughout July and August, see the location closest to you below:

Prizes!

All attendees will go in the draw to win one of ten iPads, with one iPad given away per event! If you have not already, register above and attend our ACS seminars and you could walk away not only with valuable information on careers and networks, but also an iPad for yourself or your school. Other prizes will be drawn on the day, so register and stay tuned for your chance to walk away with even more goodies! Please download the Prize Giveaways Terms and Conditions for more information.

Travel Reimbursement

Career advisers traveling over 100km (round trip — capped at 300km round trip) by car, bus or train to the seminar are eligible to claim for travel reimbursement. Please download the Travel Reimbursement Form if you will be traveling these distances to the ACS Seminars.

What attendees had to say in 2011

‘This is the third year I have visited and again I have found the info extremely beneficial, I will be back again next year! Cheers’

‘Really worthwhile. Great industry info provided - necessary for school careers advisers’

‘This is the first one I have been to and I thought it was great. I recommend it to other career advisers; I think it would also be good for teachers to attend’

'It had all the information I needed to know to pass onto the students at our school'

‘I always get good info and feel it is relevant and up to date. It is practical and stimulates me to think of new ways to share the information with students, parents and teaching staff’

‘It was a well-run event that helped me establish new industry contacts and learn about employer expectations as well as course requirements’

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