Graduate Diploma in Career Development
Manage your own career in professional career management.
- What is the focus of this degree?
- Is this course for me?
- What are my study options?
- What are my career options?
- How do I find out more?
Learn more about the Graduate Diploma in Career Development.
What is the focus of this degree?
When your job involves sorting out everyone else's careers, make sure you don't forget your own.
Our Career Development course provides you with the knowledge and skills to become a professional careers manager.
If you're already working in the industry, it is the required minimum qualification that professional career counsellors must have by 2012.
The course looks at:
- Ethical standards
- Theory, counselling and client management skills
- Knowledge of the career decision-making process
- Transition coaching
You then choose a study stream which aligns with your career development interests from one of five streams:
- Career development in organisations
- Career management and private practice
- Career case management
- Career-life coaching third age clients
- Career development in education settings
Is this course for me?
Our course is for anyone working as, or wanting to work as, a professional careers manager/counsellor, and has been designed to meet the need for nationally recognised and endorsed 'professional standards' for the career profession.
To be eligible you should have an undergraduate degree, and some relevant industry experience.
What are my study options?
The Graduate Diploma in Career Development forms the second stage of a nested suite of studies. We teach this course online, and full or part-time study options are available.
Find out more about each stage of study:
| Program | Local Student Information | International Student Information |
|---|---|---|
| Graduate Certificate in Career Development | Local | International |
| Graduate Diploma in Career Development | Local | International |
Swinburne provides you with flexible entry and exit points through nested course suites.
Most courses with nested suites comprise three study levels - Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters.
As an earlier stage must be completed before you can move to the next one, the system gives you a chance to assess what level of study you are comfortable at, while knowing you will receive a qualification whether you complete one, two or three stages.
What are my career options?
- Careers manager in schools, government organisations, private practice, public or private companies
- Career counsellor
- Career adviser
- Human resources manager