Survey

Share your ideas about career planning

We want to hear your thoughts on identifying students who need additional support to plan their post-school pathways.

Step 1 of 4 - About you

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Career planning information

This survey aims to identify the types of information that could assist Career Advisors, educators, or counsellors in supporting their students, as well as determining the data necessary for planning effective career education programs within schools. Your input is invaluable in this process.

Your participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and you can withdraw at any time without any penalty. The survey should take approximately five minutes to complete.

The information collected will remain confidential and will be stored securely. Your responses will not be identified individually but will be analysed as part of a group.

By participating in this survey, you are providing informed consent that you understand the purpose of this research, its potential risks and benefits, and how your data will be used. Your participation will contribute to the betterment of secondary students and their support networks, including their schools, parents, and teachers.

If you would like to be updated on the results of this research, please leave your email address at the end of the survey. This is entirely optional.

If you have any questions about this research, you can contact me at lucy@ponder.education or call me at +61 7 4039 3862.

What is your role?*

Careers Advisor

Teacher/Educator

School Leadership Team

Counsellor/Psychologist

External Consultant

Other

Where are you from?*

Australia

New Zealand

United Kingdom

Canada

USA

Other

What type of educational settings do you work in?*

Primary Education

Secondary Education

Tertiary Education

Public

Private/Independent

Select all that apply

How helpful would it be to have the following information before working with a young person:

How helpful would it be to have the following information before working with a young person:*

	Not very helpful	Somewhat helpful	Helpful	Very helpful
Their interest areas
Their academic strengths
Their extracurricular activities
Their transferable skills
Their aptitudes and abilities (i.e. IQ, spatial reasoning)
The quality of support they have at home for career decision making
How much career exploration they have undertaken
Their confidence with career exploration activities
Their level of clarity of their career pathway

What other types of information would you like to have about your students before meeting with them?*

Do you currently provide a Career Profile Report of some kind to students and/or families?*

Yes, they complete an online assessment tool

Yes, they complete a paper-based assessment tool

How long does it take students (on average) to complete the assessment tool?*

10 minutes or less

10 minutes to 30 minutes

30 minutes to 60 minutes

Over an hour

Is this the right amount of time?*

Yes

No, it's too long

No, it's too short

Which elements of the report do your students and their families find most useful?*

Is there anything else you'd like to share about your current profiling tool?

Why don't you provide a Career Profile Report to students?*

Don't need one

No time to complete the assessment

No budget to pay for one

Haven't got around to it

How helpful would knowing the following cohort-wide data be in planning your career education and development programs (i.e. inviting panellists to career evenings, planning work experience placements, etc.):

	Not very helpful	Somewhat helpful	Helpful	Very helpful
Interest areas by year level
Aptitudes by year level
Career Clusters by year level
Transferable skills by year level
Extracurricular activities by year level
Level of participation in casual or part-time work (for senior years)
Interest in post-school pathways (i.e. number interested in gap years, university, vocational training etc.)
How helpful would it be if you could identify students who are at risk of Vocational Identity Foreclosure or Diffusion?*

*Vocational Identity Foreclosure occurs when students make a rushed decision about their career without adequate exploration or experience, and Diffusion occurs when students are unable to make a decision about their career and have stopped actively exploring their options.

Are there any other types of data which would be helpful across a cohort of students?*

If you had any or all of the information mentioned above, what would you do with it?*

Do you currently collect any of this cohort-wide information?*

Yes

Which methods do you use to collect this information now?*

Surveys or tools you create yourself (Google Forms, SurveyMonkey etc.)

Data collected by the school (academic results etc.)

Interviews with students and/or their families

External online career planning tools

Other (please specify)

Other collection methods*

Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?

Your email address

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