We hope that your break has been relaxing, with time spent with family and friends, and doing the things that make you happy. While you’ve been on break, the team at Work-Ready have been busy preparing for 2021. Work-Ready is still free to all schools, students and community groups throughout Australia, but you will notice… Read more
That seems to be the greeting, the refrain, and the topic that fills those awkward gaps in conversation. And yes. What a year 2020 has been. A strange dystopian time that has both dragged and flown and curled its way into the deepest recesses of our fears. It has changed our plans, altered our routines… Read more
Are any of your students … Looking for something to do in their gap year? Wanting to make a little cash over the holidays Fit? Hardworking? Looking for adventure? Then read on! In the past, picking and harvest work (or seasonal work) was a way to make money and a rite of passage for many… Read more
We can all agree that 2020 has been an upside-downsy, inside outsy, disrupted kind of year. Who knows what’s around the corner, just bring on the holidays already! But let’s not get ahead of ourselves! There’s still the final push to be had with assessment tasks to be handed up and those dreaded exams to… Read more
The Work-Ready workbooks (Work It Out, My Work Experience and My Business Plan) are helping thousands of young Australians towards self-knowledge and making important decisions about their future. Work-Ready are happy to announce that we are adding two new workbooks to the stable! Take a look … WORKING WITH MONEY Is a practical guide to… Read more
2020 has been quite a school year for you. Fractured. Chaotic. Boring. Uncertain. Many of you have returned to the classroom after weeks (or months) of remote learning. Being at home was a novelty for a while, but that novelty wore pretty thin, pretty quickly! (Spare a thought for kids living on remote outback stations!)… Read more
We live in the hope that the hours spent in the classroom will give our students an awakened self-awareness, and a little more knowledge about the processes, pitfalls and the rewards that await when they leave school. We hope that ultimately they will step into the job search space – and ultimately the workforce with… Read more
The journey metaphor is well trod – but let’s tread it again anyway. After all it’s the perfect metaphor for the career pathway. One step in front of the other. So many directions sign posted, and so many decisions to make. Unless students have a definite idea of what they want to do with their… Read more
October is National Safe Work Australia Month – and why should we care? Because as at 10 September this year, there have been 110 Australians killed at work. That is, 110 Australians who set out on their normal workday, who did not make it home to their family. To add to this, many more Australians… Read more
World Mental Health Day is observed every year to raise awareness and chase away the stigma of mental health issues. The more open we are, the more understanding and supportive the community, the more mentally healthy our society will be. Last Saturday 10th October was World Mental Health Day, and this year the message was… Read more
What a year it’s been 2020 has seen so many young Australians living in communities grappling with the devastating effects of drought, flood or fire. Now with the COVID19 pandemic, many more have had to adapt to remote learning, not seeing their friends and watching on as parents or carers face an uncertain employment… Read more
