Cambridge Educated, Former CEO and Parliamentary Director reveals:
HOW TO MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD ALWAYS MAKES 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.
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Book a free consultation call with Larissa if you want to talk through the program or your child's unique situation.
You’re here because you want to help your child navigate an almost impossible task:
Choosing high school classes…
Of course, I’m kidding, but if we’re being honest, the choices that you and your child are about to make matter more now than ever before.
You’ve probably seen firsthand the almost ridiculous number of career paths that are available now. Which means you also realize that your children have an opportunity that you never really had:
The chance to find the perfect career.
One that doesn’t drain them emotionally and physically… That they can get excited for each morning they wake up.
One surrounded by like-minded people who share and support their vision.
One that maximizes all of their potential, instead of stifling it, to make them fit into a corporate mold that isn’t a reflection of who they really are…
The choices in your day were a lot simpler:
- Go to college/university and start a career
- Start your own business
- Get a job and see where things go
There wasn’t access to global networks of companies and universities from the comfort of your home computer.
You did things the “hard” way… You spoke to people in person, asked questions, watched the news, hunted down information in libraries, and with what little you could pull together yourself, you made an educated “best guess” and stuck with it.
I’d gamble that you’re pretty satisfied with the career choices that you ultimately settled on, but you’d probably agree that if you had the right insights at the right time, you could have gone even further, achieved even more, and found even more fulfillment from your career.
Right now, you have a chance to give your children the head start that you wish you had back then, and the Careers That Matter team is here to help.
We’ll use our science and research-backed career counselling to explore your child’s unique talents, personality traits, and personal values to craft a career map that leads to their highest potential, greatest impact, and maximal personal fulfillment.
Why Career Clarity Matters Most Right Now…
According to research at Berkeley University, your teen goes to school because they feel pressured into it…
To quote them directly:
The majority of teenagers feel disengaged or pressured with their studies, associating school with boredom and stress. The connection between why teens are at school and what it means for their post-school lives is missing. (Source: Berkley University)
In a nutshell, your teen doesn’t have a compelling vision for their future that drives them to fully engage in school.
Without one, they’ll continue to drift aimlessly, feeling perpetually stressed by the “pointless” exercise of going to school everyday and studying for exams that ultimately mean nothing to them.
Eventually, this aimlessness leads them into making poor career choices that they aren’t well suited for.
Which is exactly why many students —myself included— find themselves restarting university degrees, or completing university degrees, getting a job that they “think” is a good fit, then hating it…
At that point, there are only a few options available:
- Go into even more student debt by restarting a degree
- Stick with a job that you hate and hope for something better
- Work a job that you’re utterly overqualified for that doesn’t help you build your skillset to make ends meet
Not an attractive menu to pick from.
On the other hand, clarity of purpose in teenagers leads to
“greater persistence, resourcefulness, and resilience. They are more motivated, stronger learners, and experience higher levels of gratitude, self-confidence, and fulfillment.
This clarity acts as a protective factor against depression and anxiety, contributing to their overall well-being."(Source: Stanford Centre on Adolescence)
And once they become adults, clarity of purpose allows them to not only outearn their peers by significant amounts but to feel fulfilled in their careers. They also tend to build stronger and more meaningful relationships. (Source: Hill et. al. 2016)
The purpose behind our career counselling for students:
- Isolate your child’s talents so they know what skills will be the easiest, most enjoyable, and most profitable to master
- Help them to understand their own inner workings to choose the best career options that fulfill them instead of ending up trapped in dead-end careers
- Use Scientific research and insights from over 200+ Industry leaders to Develop a clear career plan complete with pivot and fallback options so they can move into opportunities with confidence
By walking them through this process, we’ll give them the clarity of purpose that can help them maximize their potential.
But, before we dive into more details about how we’ll help them do that, here’s a little bit about me.
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.
A Sneak Peek Into the Careers That Matter Methodology
Navigating this journey is more than a challenge. But working from the bottom up and leveraging your child’s uniqueness makes the journey significantly easier,
That’s why we’ve created our researched-backed career counselling program.
We’ll help you and your child to:
1. Explore Your Child’s Unique Potential to Discover Their Greatest Talents, Values, and Passions
There is and never will be another person who is like your child. Within this career counselling program, we’ll explore that uniqueness to find clues that lead us to the best career choices for them. Careers that they can wake up excited for each day, make an impact, and live a fulfilled life.2. Match them to Future-proof Career Choices That Will Fulfill them emotionally and Maximize Their Impact on the World
We’ll compare their 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 them freedom of choice.3. Isolate The Core Skillset That Will Pay Them Dividends for the Rest of Their Lives
Once we’ve figured out the career options that work best for them, we’ll create a list of the core skills they’ll need to master. Knowing these skills will tell them exactly how their time needs to be invested in the next few years especially which classes, extracurricular activities, and internships to focus on.4. Select Pivot Careers So Your Child Has the Freedom to Choose the Best Options Boldly
Career counselling means more than picking the “best fit” for them. It means creating a roadmap of all the available options so that they can move forward in the world without feeling trapped. We’ll work together to prepare a series of pivot careers to provide them with options in case their first choice wasn’t the perfect fit.5. Establish a “Fall Back” Option Just case things Don’t Proceed Perfectly
Everyone needs a backup plan, and we’ll make sure that your child has one that’s a perfect fit. This fallback option will be less glamorous than their primary choices, but it will allow them to continue to leverage and develop their core skillset and pay the bills while they plan their next move.6. Help Your Child Create a Step-by-Step Plan to Get From Where They Are Now to Where They Need to be
It’s a long road from where they are right now, to where they will be and every step matters. By the time your child has finished this career counselling program, they’ll be equipped with a step-by-step roadmap that makes all future class, university, and job decisions as simple as reading a map.
Enrol to make choosing classes and career easier for your teen.
Enrol to discover your child’s unique abilities and find a career that fulfills them emotionally and maximizes their potential.
Enroll Your Child To Give them The Headstart You Wish You Had.
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.
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
“Isn't My Child A Little Too Young for Career Counselling?”
Of course, there’s a time and place for everything in life, but if your child is already looking at High School, there may not be as much time as you think there is between now and when they’ll need to support themselves.
If you’re already thinking ahead to high school classes, then it’s probably the perfect time to start building a career plan. The earlier you start working through the deep questions with your child, helping them explore and discover their talents, desires, and values, the more time and stress you’ll save moving forward.
The earlier you start exploring and discovering yourself— your talents, deeply held beliefs, and values— the more time you can save moving forward.
Remember, there’s more to this than just getting the perfect career path lined up for your child. You’ll be adding a tremendous amount of meaning to their day-to-day lives by giving them clarity of purpose.
Ultimately, they’ll be more persistent, more emotionally stable, less prone to things like depression and anxiety, and ultimately outcompete their peers in pretty much very measurable way.
“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 cover the cost of multiple university degrees, if your child has to restart their majors part of the way through.
And things will be even more stressful and expensive if your child has to start over from scratch after wasting half a decade in a career they hate.
The longer you take to get your child 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 both at a massive advantage across the board.
“Can’t My Child Just Listen to My Relatives and Friends for Advice? I Think We Know What Is Best For Them..."
Of course, in most circumstances, there’s no one who knows what’s best for your child like you.
But that’s also what makes you the most suited to know when it’s best to consult a professional.
For example, if your child is seriously ill, you’re far more likely to take them to the doctor, than to try and diagnose them at home.
Of course— your child isn’t ill, and you’re not in a desperate situation, so here’s a different analogy.
If your child had the potential to become a top-performing athlete, you’d probably go to all possible lengths to find the best possible help to maximize their potential.
Careers That Matter is the coach your child needs right now.
They do in fact have the potential to reach extraordinary heights, outperforming the vast majority of their peers—
Only if, you get started right now.
The Careers that Matter team have put together a scientific approach to career counselling that fills in the blindspots that you, your child’s friends, and relatives are likely to have.
We’ve built a model that is 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 child’s unique talents, values, and beliefs.
That said.
Are you finally ready to dive in?
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