Career Education Programs + Communication Tools
Start 2025 successfully (our new Careers Programs are ready and waiting for you)
Study Work Grow's world-leading career education resources can make you look like a superstar at school. Find out how below.
Everything you need to educate and inspire exciting career pathways (while getting back 10+ hours of your week)
Everything you need to educate and inspire exciting career pathways (while getting back 10+ hours of your week)
School careers practitioners, pathways coordinators and guidance counsellors shape our future workforces every day. But there’s never enough time for you to encourage every young dream AND create the teaching materials to do it.
That’s why nearly 400 Australian, New Zealand, and UK secondary schools use the Ponder Program (and all of the brilliant tools and resources that go with it).
Develop Career Management Skills
The Ponder Program builds robust career management skills, in line with best-practice international frameworks.
Start Career Conversations
The Career Clusters help students to discover where they ‘fit’ in the world of work. Best of all, it starts amazing career conversations.
Build Career Awareness
NEW for 2025: AweHunters gives you a whole-of-school Careers-in-the-Curriculum program your educators can use to make their subject lessons more exciting.
"Where has this program been all my life?? This is fantastic!!!
All schools need to include this in their Strategic Improvement Planning."
Ponder Program - NEW 2025 Edition
Pick and choose lessons from the world's most innovative Career Education Program
The Ponder Program integrates the Australian Blueprint, NZ Career Management Competencies, and the UK’s CDI Framework into an amazing set of 58 easy-to-run lessons.
- Short 10-minute versions for home-room, tutor time, or form class
- Longer 40-minute versions for careers lessons, pastoral care, PDHPE/PSHE, personal development time
- Lessons, Workshops, and Panel Sessions for variety
- Best of all, it’s super flexible and designed for any educator to deliver
All you need to do is open the PowerPoint slides, play the short animated video, and follow our teacher notes.
Careers lessons, done ✅
"It’s so much more than a “Form Time” session, as I’ve used some of the resources during one-on-one Careers Meetings and for other workshops too! As you know, it’s safe to say I’m a fan!"
Ready to Work
Give your students everything they need for their first job
Career Counsellors often have to teach students how to Find, Secure, and Maintain their first part-time job, cadetship/traineeship, or work placement.
Ready to Work simplifies the annual repetition of teaching students to:
- Find a job (or similar work-related role)
- Communicate effectively with employers
- Write a resume/CV and apply for a job
- Attend and complete an interview
- Get started at their chosen work
It’s 10 exciting lessons, compiled for you into a step-by-step teaching framework with everything you need to get them job-ready.
Worth $550 separately, but it’s included with Essentials.
Career Clusters
Help students understand their Vocational Identity
Change their first career conversations from “Which job?”, to “Which Cluster?” (which is a much better way to start career exploration).
This incredible course includes a Teaching Guide with flexible lesson options, a Student Workbook for activities, and a GDPR Compliant online Career Cluster Quiz. So you’ll be able to help them find where they ‘fit’.
Unlike other psychometric tests can cost $50 per student or more, the Career Clusters is included. For free.
AweHunters - NEW for 2025
Broaden their horizons with 180 Careers-in-the-Curriculum lessons
The biggest wish of Careers Advisors the world over is for a way to get subject teachers talking about careers (and making your work go mainstream at school).
Wish no more – we’ve created AweHunters, new for 2025
- Individually themed year levels to suit their stage in school
- Lesson links to Mathematics, English, History, Science, Art & Technology plus many other common secondary school subjects
- 30 interesting and exciting careers to explore for each cohort from Year 7 to 12
- Each lesson is 15-20 minutes, with slides, videos, activities and teacher notes
- Plus there’s a primary school component of lessons too, so you can introduce careers to your feeder schools (and become a local expert)
It’s 10 exciting lessons, compiled for you into a step-by-step teaching framework with everything you need to get them job-ready.
Worth $750 annually, it’s included in an Essentials Membership.
Plus, you'll also get access to our Communication Tools
Our wildly popular career education resources from our Lite Membership ($363.00 p.a.) is included too, with things like time-saving researched Weekly Newsletters, Student Pathways Guides to help with big decisions, Job Spotlights that profile different careers, and a free Careers Website for your school.
You can spend less time creating content, and more time doing what you do best.
Choose a high quality careers program that's industry commended
The Ponder Program was one of the first Career Education frameworks & materials in Australia to be independently reviewed and awarded the prestigious ‘Commended Program’ status by the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA).
The assessment criteria of Content, Credibility, Originality, Usefulness, Currency, Value, and Accessibility that Ponder met or exceeded means that you can purchase the Ponder Program with confidence.
Ponder has also been featured in the OECD’s Observatory on Digital Technologies in Career Guidance for Youth (ODICY) repository of global best practice resources – recognised for it’s high quality and level of innovation.
Can these programs work in my educational setting?
(The short answer is YES)
Our educational programs are used in hundreds of secondary schools, universities, and youth-focused organisations across the world with great success.
Our programs are used everywhere from major metropolitan universities through to tiny regional schools with just a handful of students.
They work in schools with multiple Career Practitioners and budgets most of us can only dream of, just as well as they do in schools with no qualified full-time Career Practitioner on staff.
You’re the expert in your own context, so everything is designed to be easily customisable by you for your specific situation.
Only teach careers in one year ? Or Seniors? Or all grades?
That’s totally ok – select the resources which will be of most value for your learners from each unit.
Missed a lesson?
No problem, just skip it or pick up where you left off.
Want to pick and choose lessons?
Absolutely you can. All of the hard work is done for you, so you can choose what works for you and start teaching. How will you use it at your school?
Make a big impact with our programs
"I get 5 mins a week for Ponder – a great way for students to start the week in 2023. I just love the video and the one question for discussion – just brilliant."
"I have really loved this approach to ponder. We haven’t gotten through much because we are having very deep class discussions which has been really enjoyable for myself and the students."
"We know you'll love being a 'Study Work Grow' school because many of our members have been with us for well over 10 years and have referred countless numbers of their colleagues to us too.
They tell us it's because our small team and I are always here to help and make them feel welcome. I look forward to hearing about your school soon."
Something special for you with Essentials
Don't miss out on your Ponder Pack
Twice a year, we send out packs full of posters, guides, and other goodies (including TimTams) to our Ponder Program members.
Each pack has our favourite education materials from the year, helping you to reinforce the Ponder Program message in your school by making Careers visible.
The latest Ponder Pack is worth nearly $200 and will be sent at no additional cost to all Essentials Members (so it’s well worth joining before the 14 February cut-off just for this).
Start your Essentials Membership at school today
You’ll LOVE having Essentials. Here’s a quick recap of what’s included:
Career Education Programs + Communication Tools
Full 12 months access to our quality, evidence-based career education programs co-designed with schools, including:
- The Ponder Program for teaching career management competencies (worth over $2,000)
- Ready-to-Work prepares students for their first job (sold separately for $550)
- AweHunters Careers-in-the-Curriculum Program (worth over $750)
- The Career Clusters (full access) gives students a great place to start conversations from (other psychometric tests are often $50 per student)
Plus, you’ll get everything in our Lite Membership:
- Custom School Careers Website
- 10+ Student Guides
- 200+ Job Spotlights
- Researched Weekly News
All up, it’s over $3,000 worth of resources and endless time savings for you at a school-friendly price.
Get started today >>
Simply tell us about your school and we’ll set you up with online access ASAP. No upfront payment or card needed (we’ll invoice you instead).
Already a Lite/Standard/Ponder Pathways Member? We’ll apply your remaining credit towards your new membership, Let’s get you upgraded today.