1. How do Australian youth find careers information?
Peta Skujins
Australian Apprenticeships & Traineeships Information Service

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3. About AATIS
Australian Apprenticeships and Traineeships Information Service
Funded by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training
Services include: Australian Apprenticeships Pathways website, AusAppPathways mobile app, MyGain YouTube channel, Free Call line, and social media presence

4. What’s important for most people
What’s important for most people? It’s finding work that pays money, is satisfying, that they can do, that they’re good at. It’s about adding information to it and enabling them to make the next steps.

5. Why is careers information important?
Full time employment has declined while part time and casual employment has increased
Participation in schooling has increased
Participation and attainment of post-school qualifications has increased
Participation in and completion of Australian Apprenticeships has decreased
1/8 young people who leave school early will never complete year 12 or certificate II or higher
70% of jobs that young people traditionally enter will be affected by automation
Young people will have 17 jobs over 5 careers

6. What do we already know?
LSAY 74% looked online 74% talked to a teacher or career adviser 55% did an aptitude test 50% attended a university careers session 15% attended a TAFE careers session
Skillsroad Youth Census
Parents
Friends
Teachers/ career advisers
Mentors
Colleagues
Family friends
The internet

7. What did we do? Surveys: 100 youth, 200 influencers
Focus groups: Vic, NSW, Qld and Online; 60 youth, 28 influencers
Youth: year’s old
Influencers: Parents, career advisers, teachers, information providers, and anyone who discusses careers information with young people

8. (Careers information includes) all published information available through every media format. It also includes personal experiences and family experiences.

9. What is careers information?
Influencers
Employment information, data and statistics
Job pathways: occupation and training information
Information about jobs and industries
Outcomes relating to wages and employment prospects
Tools to help someone decide what pathway is best for them
Youth
Helping you get a job
Sustaining a job
The courses you are doing
What ATAR you need
Different courses to do with the job you want
Setting up a new career, finding out everything you need to know before you start

10. What is careers information?
Influencers
Employment information, data and statistics
Job pathways: occupation and training information
Information about jobs and industries
Outcomes relating to wages and employment prospects
Tools to help someone decide what pathway is best for them
Youth
Helping you get a job
Sustaining a job
The courses you are doing
What ATAR you need
Different courses to do with the job you want
Setting up a new career, finding out everything you need to know before you start

11. I researched what my qualifications would be, what certificate I would get after I’d done this. How this would benefit me.

12. What motivates young people to access careers information?
Self-motivated
Finding a job you’d have enjoyment in
Knowing exactly what you’re getting into
Deciding what to do next
Forced
Classes or other sessions for school students
Subject or post-school decisions
Parents force their children to plan their future
Requirements for welfare payments

13. What motivates young people to access careers information?
Self-motivated
Finding a job you’d have enjoyment in
Knowing exactly what you’re getting into
Deciding what to do next
Forced
Classes or other sessions for school students
Subject or post-school education decisions
Parents forcing their children to plan their future
Requirements for welfare payments

14. What motivates young people to access careers information?
Some young people want to find information for themselves, but don’t know where or how to look
Many young people disengage with information that is presented through advertising or otherwise forced on them

15. When you think of Facebook you think of a bunch of opinionated people, but Google you just Google it.

16. What platforms and mechanisms do people use?
Young people
Influencers
Online 1
Quizzes
Newsletters 2
Wikipedia
Interactive tools 3
Infographics
Social media
Facebook
YouTube
Instagram
LinkedIn
Printed materials
Information packs
Flyers
Printed web pages
Facts sheets

17. What devices do people use?

18. Where do people go?

19. Where should young people go?

20. The only person you’ve got is yourself.

21. Who do young people talk to?

22. I find that parents, because they know you so well, when you suggest jobs they might actually know if it might suit you.

23. What are the barriers? English language and literacy abilities
Internet access and device access
School refusers
Family problems

24. What are the problems?
Knowing where to look and how to use careers information
Misunderstandings between youth and influencers:
What a ‘career’ is
What types of career information are useful and important
Where young people go for information
Where young people should go for information

25. You don’t know what you don’t know.

26. Your home of information
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