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7–10Work Education 7–10 Syllabus (2025)

Record of changes
Implementation from 2028
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Preparing for the workplace
Career pathway planning
  • Features of a career pathway plan

  • Steps for career pathway planning

  • Self-awareness, self-advocacy and self-agency for career pathway planning

  • Support networks and services for career pathway planning

  • Reasons career pathway plans change

  • Create a personal career pathway plan

Developing a professional job portfolio
  • Information to include in a job portfolio

  • Benefits of a job portfolio

  • Elements of a curriculum vitae (CV)

  • Work experience opportunities to enhance a curriculum vitae (CV)

  • Participate in creating a curriculum vitae (CV)

  • Ways to present a job portfolio

  • Resources and support networks to assist with developing a job portfolio

  • Reasons to update a job portfolio

Recruitment and selection
  • Features of recruitment and selection processes

  • Skills and strategies to search for a job

  • Components of a job advertisement

  • Features of a cover letter for a job advertisement

  • Skills needed to participate in a job interview

  • Ways to reflect on interview skills after a job interview to identify areas for improvement

Employer expectations of job applicants
  • Possible requirements of a job

  • Transferable skills needed for the workplace

  • Technical skills needed for specific roles in the workplace

Thinking, researching and communicating
  • Identify and demonstrate skills and strategies used to prepare for the workplace in hypothetical and real-world situations

  • Investigate a current issue in relation to preparing for the workplace

  • Communicate solutions and/or actions in response to the current issue investigated

  • Create an oral, visual, written or multimodal text to communicate ideas relating to preparing for the workplace

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