Cambridge Educated, Former CEO and Parliamentary Director reveals:
HOW TO ALWAYS MAKE THE RIGHT CAREER CHOICES NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS...
... Using My Careers Planning Framework That Has Already Helped 6000+ Gen Z Teenagers and Young Adults Choose Their High School Elective Subjects, University & College Degrees and First Jobs
The Careers That Matter Mentorship Program
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Build your unique framework to consistently make the correct career decisions, regardless of changes in the job market.
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Teens and young adults aged 14-24 years old can join the program from anywhere in the world and participate at a time that suits you.
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Three live one-to-one career coaching sessions from an award-winning career mentor, former CEO and advisor to the Australian Parliament.
- Psychometric testing, personalised career suggestions and career development opportunities included in program.
Don’t Waste Your Life Trapped in a Career That You Don’t LOVE.
You’re at the strange time in every teen’s life that feels like a crossroads.
(That’s probably what brought you to a page about student career advice, haha.)
You’re in high school and wondering how you should be investing your time.
As a matter of fact, it probably seems like the “future” is all anyone around you is talking about.
“What classes will you take?”
“What do you want to be?”
“Have You thought about *Insert Boring Career Choice Here*?”
“You’d definitely make a good Doctor/Lawyer/Engineer.”
“Have you gotten any career counselling? You need to make up your mind quickly or else…”
It seems like every day, a new —and probably well-intentioned— person is asking a question or making a suggestion about the next stage of your life…
And it’s quickly becoming overwhelming…
Of course, you understand that you’ll need a career to live a good life and to be able to provide for yourself. But you’re worried about what that career could mean for you.
Will you enjoy it? What if you don't?
Should you chase your passion? What even IS your “passion”?
Will you end up stuck in a career that drains you emotionally and physically for years?
What if your parents’ suggestions don’t work out for you?
There are a million questions just like these rattling around in your mind, and maybe it seems like there’s no way to sort them all out and create a clear path forward that you can start working toward.
That’s where the Careers That Matter team can make things easy for you.
We’ve developed a program that can help you easily:
- Isolate your talents so you know what skills will be the easiest, most enjoyable, and most profitable to master.
- Understand your own inner workings so you can choose career options that fulfill you instead of being trapped in dead-end careers.
- Develop a clear career plan complete with pivot and fallback options so you can move into opportunities with confidence
The Blessing and the Curse of Gen Z’s Limitless Potential…
As a young person, you’re faced with an interesting dilemma that your parents never had to wrestle with. By the time they were in your position, the choices were limited but clear:
- Take up a trade
- Go to University and guarantee an “illustrious” and high-paying career
- Start a business
Most of your parents likely chose the university option and they can probably tell you themselves, that they aren’t necessarily happy with their outcomes…
They spent the rest of their lives, working hard, unfulfilling jobs to make ends meet. Waking up every day and forcing themselves to go to work, even though they hated their jobs because they simply didn’t believe they had any other choice.
Yes… They hate going to work even more than you hate going to school sometimes… But they needed income to live a comfortable life and eventually find love and raise a family.
If you ask them, they’d probably agree that a different career choice may have made them happier.
They’d have been more excited to go to work, would have been happier with the impact they made on the world, and as a result, may have even gone much further in their careers.
You have the opposite problem on your hands…
In a world so closely connected through Social Media, you’re now exposed to more career choices than humanity has ever seen before.
Add in the fact that technology keeps advancing faster and faster each year?
And you’ve got quite the conundrum on your hands…
Between Schooling and the Internet, you can learn and master any skill.
Thanks to Social Media you can find employment opportunities practically anywhere on the planet, in any circumstance, doing pretty much anything…
And the Worst Part of All This?
You won’t really know for sure how you feel about things until you experience them yourself. Which is a good way to get stuck in a University degree or job that you hate…
That’s why we’ve created our career counselling program.
How I Went From Aimless to Working at the Highest Levels of Australian Government…
(And Why it Matters to You)
Meet Your Career Counsellor
Hi, my name is Larissa Brown, the Founder and Chief Career Mentor at Careers That Matter.
I started three different degrees in my early twenties trying to work out what I wanted to do – engineering, then law, and then science.
None of them felt quite right.
I was driven by a single question:
“How can I make an impact on society through my work?”
(Yes, a very strange thought for a young person to obsess over, but— I’ve never really taken an ordinary path through life..)
Either way, I couldn’t find the answers in the degrees I chose to pursue.
Eventually, I was so let down by the entire journey that I decided to drop out of school to take a gap year.
I spent that year travelling around the world, and realised how much we have to be grateful for as a species. Our environment, the wonderful wildlife around us, the ecosystem we’re blessed to live in and be a part of.
It became apparent to me, that I needed to do something about it.
Which is when it occurred to me that I’d finally found my purpose…
The impact I wanted to have on the world…
It only took three degrees, depression, and a gap year to get it done…
Eventually, my newfound purpose would lead me through several career advances, all driven by my ultimate goal to create a sustainable impact on the world. This would culminate in my dream job:
Working out of parliament house as director of parliament and policy for 15 Greens senators and MPs.
I was utterly fulfilled in this role, and often, I’d be caught up so deeply in my work that 14 hours could pass in the blink of an eye.
But if I had the right guidance, much earlier on in my life, I would have been able to get there much sooner, and with a lot less headache.
That fact, and my recent decision to start a family pushed me in an entirely new direction.
Looking back at my life I realized just how much insight into career choices I’d accumulated in my own adventure and knew that I could make a massive impact on the next generation by helping young teens to skip the hardship and get the headstart in their careers that I wish I had.
Thus, Careers That Matter was born.
MY CREDENTIALS
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Navigating your early career can be challenging: I got terrible career counselling in high school. I started three different degrees in my early twenties trying to work out what I wanted to do – engineering, then law and then science. None of them felt quite right. Eventually, I found my way to a career that I loved, but I wasted a lot of time and money in the process and I don't want you to make the same mistake.
- Your will benefit from my extensive experience in many senior and fulfilling jobs: I founded and served as CEO of an award-winning NGO. I then followed my passions – and applied my skills – in politics, commencing as a State Director of a significant Australian political party, before moving to the national arena as the federal party’s parliamentary director and then national policy director working out of Australian Parliament House.
- Access a framework based on interviews with the world's greatest social impact leaders about their careers: My research has taken me to 20 countries and five continents. This includes former Prime Ministers, Nobel Prize Winners, top entrepreneurs and young people making a difference in cities across the globe.
- You benefit from research at the world's best universities: I hold three master’s degrees at the world's top universities - Cambridge University (UK), the London School of Economics, and The University of Melbourne. I have also worked as a lecturer and research scientist at Australia's top universities.
- Your award winning career mentor: I have been recognized as a Global Shaper by the Davos World Economic Forum and listed as one of Melbourne's 100 Most Influential People by The Age newspaper. Additionally, I have been honoured as the Australian Young Environmentalist of the Year and the Victorian Young Australian of the Year.
- Your career planning is my passion: I am driven by the question; how can people use their uniqueness to have an impact through their work? I love helping teenagers identify fulfilling, meaningful and impactful careers they can grow into.
The Three-Part Careers That Matter Mentorship Program Will Help You to:
- Explore Your Unique Potential to Discover Your Greatest Talents, Values, and Passions: There is and never will be another person who is uniquely you. Within this career counselling program, we’ll explore that uniqueness to find clues that lead us to the best career choices for you. Careers that make you wake up excited for each day, help you to make an impact and ultimately help you to live a fulfilled life.
- Match those to Future-proof Career Choices That Will Fulfill you emotionally and Maximize Your Impact on the World: We’ll compare your unique talents, values, and passions to changes that are happening in the job market and where we expect the market to be in the next decade. We’ll create a career path that gives you freedom of choice.
- Isolate The Core Skillset That Will Pay You Dividends for the Rest of Your Life: Once we’ve figured out the career options that work best for you, we’ll create a list of the core skills you’ll need to master. Knowing these skills will tell you exactly how you need to invest your time in the next few years especially which classes, extracurricular activities, and internships you should be focusing on.
- Select Pivot Careers So You Have the Freedom to Choose the Best Options Boldly: Career counselling means more than picking the “best fit” for you. It means creating a roadmap of all the available options so that you can move forward in the world without feeling trapped. We’ll work together to prepare a series of pivot careers to provide you with options in case your first choice wasn’t the perfect fit.
- Establish a “Fall Back” Option Just Incase Things Don’t Proceed Perfectly: Everyone needs a backup plan, and we’ll make sure that yours is a perfect fit. This fall back option will be less glamorous than your primary choices, but it will allow you to continue to leverage and develop your core skillset and pay the bills while you plan your next move.
- Help You Create a Step-by-Step Plan to Get From Where You Are Now to Where You Need to be: It’s a long road from where you are right now, to where you will be and every step matters. By the time you’ve finished this career counselling program, you’ll be equipped with a step-by-step roadmap that makes all of your future class, university, and job decisions as simple as reading a map.
Make choosing your classes and career easier.
Discover your unique abilities and find the career that helps you make an impact.
In Part One We Will:
- Explore Your Unique Potential to Discover Your Greatest Talents, Values, and Passions: There is and never will be another person who is uniquely you. Within this part one, we’ll explore that uniqueness to find clues that lead us to the best career choices for you. Careers that make you wake up excited for each day, help you to make an impact and ultimately help you to live a fulfilled life.
Part One
CURRICULUM
SELF PACED MODULE ONE
Get Lit on What You Love
We kick off by uncovering what really sparks your interest. Here's what you'll focus on:
- Stuff that grips you: Find your jam, the activities you can get lost in for hours.
- What you're curious about: Sift through topics and tasks that make you want to dive deep and know more.
By the end, you'll have a vibrant list of activities and interests that energize you, creating a strong foundation for your future career journey.
SELF PACED MODULE TWO
Unlock Your Unique Edge
This module is all about figuring out what makes you, well, you! We're talking about:
- Career Choices that Click: Learn how picking a job that plays to your strengths can make you happier and up your game.
- Talents vs Strengths vs Skills: Get clear on what you're born with, what you've built up, and what you've learned. This helps you use what you've got more effectively.
By the end, you'll know your go-to strengths and talents, setting you apart in any field you choose.
SLEF PACED MODULE THREE
What's Your World-Changer Mode?
In this module, we zoom out and look at the bigger picture:
- Dream Up Your Ideal World: Pin down what you wish was different about the world. Could be social justice, cleaner oceans, or a more fair economy.
- Core Beliefs, Real Talk: Zero in on the values that matter to you. These are your North Star when making career choices.
By the end, you'll have a starter outline of the difference you want to make. Details to follow, but hey, you gotta start somewhere.
Part One
HERE IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU RECEIVE
Self Paced Activities Workbook
Three to Six Hours of Guided Reflections
Receive your own digital workbook jam-packed with exciting insights and engaging activities designed to help you develop and understanding yourself in the context of work.
Each module, you’ll receive a challenge designed to deepen their thinking and further explore yourself and the ideal career path forward. These challenges add a piece of the puzzle each time they’re completed.
Each module takes 1-2 hours to complete. You can do these at any time and from anywhere.
By the time you’ve worked your way through all three modules, your strong clues to your unique strengths, passions, and desired impact.
Extensive
Psychometric Testing
Access to Every Major Psychometric Career Test
Psychometric testing makes vivid your individual strengths and personality. In the Careers That Matter program you will gain access to every major career assessment that meets scientifically validated models for career planning. Each psychometric test we use has undergone extensive research to ensure its validity and reliability, employing a variety of statistical methods.
The program includes the Gallup Strengths Finder, Holland Code, MBTI TypeFinder, Big Five Personality Test, DISC Personality Test, and Enneagram.
The cost of each individual career test is included in the price of the program.
Live 1:1 Coaching Session With Larissa
50min session via Zoom
In our first coaching session we will clarify your personal criteria for what makes a meaningful and successful career. We'll go through your workbook actives, and psychometric tests to discover your strengths, values and passions.
As a certified career counsellor and Gallup Coach, Larissa possesses exclusive rights to administer keycareer psychometric tests. She will guide your child through each one, helping them understand how the results relate to their future career success, and integrating these insights into their personalized career plan.
Part One
INVESTMENT
In Part Two we will:
- Match Your values, strengths and passions to Future-proof Career Choices That Will Fulfill you emotionally and Maximize Your Impact on the World: We’ll compare your unique talents, values, and passions to changes that are happening in the job market and where we expect the market to be in the next decade. We’ll create a career path that gives you freedom of choice.
Part Two
CURRICULUM
SELF PACED MODULE FOUR
Prep for a Future-Ready Career
This week, you'll focus on aligning your career compass with jobs that can stand the test of time. Key areas include:
- Design Thinking and Career Ideas: Utilize design thinking to brainstorm careers that fit your values, strengths, and interests.
- Scope Out Industry Trends: Dive into what's fresh in your shortlisted fields. Get a handle on new tech, societal shifts, and how they might shape your career options.
By the end, you'll have a targeted list of careers and know the skills you'll need to thrive in them.
SELF PACED MODULE FIVE
The Power of Choice
This week, let’s ditch the “one dream job” myth and get real. Here’s the rundown:
- Your Top 10: Using your career GPS, identify the jobs that rank highest for you.
- Unclog the Fog: Spot what's still fuzzy about each of your top 10 picks. That's your to-do list for digging deeper.
By the end, you’ll have a shortlist of 10 careers and a checklist of questions to explore about each. This sets you up for informed moves.
SELF PACED MODULE SIX
Road Test Your Career Picks
his week is like a test drive for your future. Let's dig in:
- Try Before You Buy: Understand that you can't know if a shoe fits unless you walk in it. Same goes for careers.
- Hands-On Homework: Learn about job shadowing, internships, or part-time gigs as ways to get a real feel for different jobs.
- Pro Talks: Get the lowdown on how to connect and chat with people who are already doing what you're eyeing. They'll give you the inside scoop.
By the end, you'll have a game plan to test drive your top 5 career choices. Trust us, it's worth the legwork.
Part Two
HERE IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU RECEIVE
Ten Career Ideas
Ten Career Ideas for you Based on Your Career GPS
Based on your results from part one of the program, Larissa will send you a curated list of ten careers that might be a good fit for you.
You will spend time before the first coaching session researching these careers.
Live 1:1 Coaching Session With Larissa
50min session via Zoom
In our coaching session in part two, we will talk through ten potential careers, why they might fit your strengths, values and passions, and how you might try these careers out before committing to them.
Self Paced Activities Workbook
Three to Six Hours of Guided Reflections
Again you will receive your own digital workbook jam-packed with exciting insights and engaging activities designed to help you develop and understanding potential careers you might like to take on.
Each module takes 1-2 hours to complete. You can do these at any time and from anywhere.
By the time you’ve worked your way through all three modules, you will have a clear shortlist of careers and a plan to test them before you commit further.
Part Two
INVESTMENT
In Part Three We Will:
- Isolate The Core Skillset That Will Pay You Dividends for the Rest of Your Life: Once we’ve figured out the career options that work best for you, we’ll create a list of the core skills you’ll need to master. Knowing these skills will tell you exactly how you need to invest your time in the next few years especially which classes, extracurricular activities, and internships you should be focusing on.
- Select Pivot Careers So You Have the Freedom to Choose the Best Options Boldly: Career counselling means more than picking the “best fit” for you. It means creating a roadmap of all the available options so that you can move forward in the world without feeling trapped. We’ll work together to prepare a series of pivot careers to provide you with options in case your first choice wasn’t the perfect fit.
- Establish a “Fall Back” Option Just Incase Things Don’t Proceed Perfectly: Everyone needs a backup plan, and we’ll make sure that yours is a perfect fit. This fall back option will be less glamorous than your primary choices, but it will allow you to continue to leverage and develop your core skillset and pay the bills while you plan your next move.
- Help You Create a Step-by-Step Plan to Get From Where You Are Now to Where You Need to be: It’s a long road from where you are right now, to where you will be and every step matters. By the time you’ve finished this career counselling program, you’ll be equipped with a step-by-step roadmap that makes all of your future class, university, and job decisions as simple as reading a map.
Part Three
CURRICULUM
SELF PACED MODULE SEVEN
Overcoming Challenges
This week is all about squaring up with whatever's standing between you and your dream job. Get ready to:
- Spot Your Roadblocks: Pinpoint exactly what's slowing you down, be it self-doubt, lack of resources, or societal pressures.
- Strategize Your Leap: Build your game plan with personalized strategies using your strengths, your squad, and opportunities that are out there.
By the end, you'll have your very own roadmap to dodge those career potholes and hit the gas toward your goals.
SELF PACED MODULE EIGHT
Build Your Career Blueprint
In a world that’s always on the move, your plans need to be just as agile. So, here's the plan for this week:
- Roll with the Punches: Learn the art of adaptability. The world's gonna change, and your career plans need to be flexible enough to change with it.
- Three-Part Harmony: Craft three separate career blueprints—Plan A, Plan B, and Plan Z. One's your dream gig, the other's a solid backup, and the last is your safety net.
- Mix Your Short and Long Game: Make sure your immediate moves line up with your ultimate career goals. We're talking about a balanced playbook here, people.
Wrap-up? You’ll walk away with not one but three dynamic career plans, ready for whatever life tosses your way.
SELF PACED MODULE NINE
Put Your Plans Into Play
It's time to switch from brainstorming to bootstrapping. Your career won't shape itself; you have to take the reins. So, let's see what we're tackling this week:
- Cash in Your Career Capital: Ever heard of career capital? It's your own blend of skills, know-how, connections, and your reputation. You'll find out how this invisible currency can make or break your career moves.
- Your Plan, Bite-Sized: Your grand career plan looks great on paper, but how do you actually live it? You'll break it down into mini-goals, tasks, and deadlines. No more vague dreams; you'll have a step-by-step guide to make them happen.
- Make Your Own Rules: Think of your daily routines as your game plan for success. We're gonna talk about setting priorities, managing your time, and carving out daily 'career time.'
End of the program, you’ll be armed with a to-do list that’s all about turning your career plans into your career reality.
Part Three
HERE IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU RECEIVE
Self Paced Activities Workbook
Three to Six Hours of Guided Reflections
Again you will receive your own digital workbook jam-packed with exciting insights and engaging activities designed to help you develop and understanding potential careers you might like to take on.
Each module takes 1-2 hours to complete. You can do these at any time and from anywhere.
By the time you’ve worked your way through all three modules, you will have a clear career plan.
Two x Live 1:1 Coaching Session With Larissa
50min session via Zoom
You’ll receive personalised guidance from award-winning career mentor, former CEO and advisor to the Australian Parliament Larissa Brown.
In our coaching session in part three, we will design your career plan and set out the next steps you need to take to make it happen.
Bespoke Career Opportunities
Work experience and skills building ideas unique to you
Based on your location and career goals you will receive a list of opportunities you could pursue to set your career up for success.
Part Three
INVESTMENT
“Aren’t I a Little Too Young for Career Counselling?”
Of course, there’s a time and place for everything in life, but if you’re a teen who’s already started thinking ahead, then it’s the perfect time for you to dive into getting your future career mapped out.
The earlier you start exploring and discovering yourself— your talents, deeply held beliefs, and values— the more time you can save moving forward.
You’ll also automatically make school less stressful, and more meaningful, since every day will be a new opportunity take a step forward toward your desired career.
“This Sounds Like It’ll be Expensive…”
I’ll level with you—
Career counselling for teens at this level isn’t cheap.
On the other hand, it will be FAR more expensive to restart your university degree, because halfway through you’ve finally realized that this wasn’t the path for you.
You’ll pay an even higher price if you have to start over from scratch after being stuck in a career that you hate for half a decade…
The longer you take to get on the right path, the harder (and more expensive) it is to course correct.
Getting settled on the best possible path forward now puts you at a massive advantage across the board.
“Can’t I Just Listen to My Relatives and Friends for Advice?”
While relatives can be a tremendous source of insight in helping you to shape your future, this simply is unlikely to be their area of expertise.
The Careers that Matter team have put together a scientific approach to career counselling that fills in the blindspots that most of your friends and relatives will have.
Chances are, they’ll give you advice or insights from their own points of view, rather than based on a comprehensive understanding of where the job market is headed in the next 10 years, as well as, a detailed insight into your own uniqueness.
It’s good to take advice from your relatives and friends generally speaking, but an expert opinion can make the difference between the perfect career for you, and years of wasted time and energy.
Speaking of relatives, I think it’s about time you sent an info packet to your parents.
Don’t you?
Click Here to Send an Info Packet to Your Parents Now.How to Join the Careers That Matter Mentorship Program
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