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Making a successful career change can often be a challenging and complex undertaking and is a process worth investing time and energy into to ensure you have the information and insight to make the right choices for your future.
When considering a change in your career direction you should begin by asking lots of important questions and considering what you find.
Three key areas to investigate and explore are:
The world of you – your identity, values, needs, preferences and capabilities. This can also include your responsibilities, health and relationships.
The world of work – including researching industry trends, skill requirements, career pathways and work/life balance.
The opportunities that might be available and accessible to you, both now and in the future.
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These 3 categories are all important to consider, and below are some key questions that might help you navigate what each of these categories might looklike for you.
Making good decisions can take effort and structure, and exploring questions like this can begin to give you the information, insights and options to help ensure your decision-making is informed and grounded in your own needs.
Use what you learn and your experiences to determine how you feel about different aspects of your relationship with work, and use this understanding to prioritise the opportunities that might best align with your other factors.
While the process can feel daunting, you are not alone! Seeking the assistance of careers advisors can support you in exploring these ideas and in piecing together your own insights. Working together, careers advisors help you turn these insights into plans and actions that you can implement to move forward with confidence.
Reach out to our ACU careers advisors via the ACU homepage .
Career advisers will guide you through the process of choosing the units that will support your career goals, and from there, you complete the paperwork to start the online enrolment process.
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If you are returning to study after a long time away from it or didn’t finish high school, you may feel nervous, apprehensive, or anxious about this new stage of your life.
However, you have spent at least a few years in the military, during which time you have built skills and attributes that are unique and valuable.
Skills such as perseverance, resilience, organisation, problem-solving, time management, and group task focus. These underlying skills you developed are essential for working in a university environment and meeting the demands of study.
You’ll learn to read and take notes, how to write an essay for an assessment, and you’ll learn how to instill what you know into a three-minute PowerPoint for a presentation, among many other things.
In fact, you have never stopped learning...it’s just that this time, you are learning in a university environment.
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