Build a career education program that helps your students thrive
Transform how you deliver career development with our flexible plug-and-play career education programs and teaching resources.
Student-focused - Co-designed with schools - Pedagogically adjustable
Go further with career ed programs that actually work
You want the best outcomes for your students (that’s why you went into education), but ensuring they have the skills they need is hard. There are thousands of jobs out there, and, as Career Advisors ourselves, we know that it’s all too easy to pick one of the top ten options.
With Study Work Grow, you’ll broaden their horizons while challenging their assumptions about what’s possible, with an innovative research-driven program that’s recognised around the globe.
We’ll help you turn “I dunno” into “let’s start looking…”
Thanks for all the awesome resources - the Ponder/SWG treasure chest is simply brilliant!
How it works
Start better career conversations
You simply choose the programs and resources you want to use from our extensive collection, make any quick adjustments needed for your students, then support your teachers as they deliver the content.
Your teachers and leadership team will think you’re a superstar, because you’ll make it easy for them to connect what happens in the classroom with where they’re going next. Our schools find students become more engaged with the content, and confident about their future, and their teachers actually look forward to the career conversations.
Pick your resources
We'll help you work out which programs and resources you want to use
Slot them in
Everything is ready to go, so you can just plug them in to your existing systems
Start the conversation
Sit back and watch the career conversations flow
Be part of global best practice
Want to ensure you’re delivering programs that align with the latest research and career development guidelines?
You can feel confident as all our programs are developed by qualified Career Development Practitioners and Educational Designers, in line with best practice guidelines such as the Australian Blueprint for Career Development and the Gatsby Benchmarks.
What underpins our programs?
Take a Cluster Approach
The world of work is complex, but when we group people together into Clusters, based on holistic ways of working, everything becomes clearer.
CADI™ stands for Cluster Approach to Development of Identity, and Cadi helps students (and the people who support them) think differently about their options with a common language for careers. It’s a deceptively simple model that brings clarity and confidence to career conversations.
We all fit into six Career Clusters
There are common traits, tasks, and ways of working that transcend all workplaces, and shifting the conversation away from granular jobs and towards flexible, dynamic Clusters gives students the power to explore a range of possibilities with confidence.
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How could the Clusters help you?
Power-up your programs
The CADI model is built into our Career Development Program (Ponder), Careers-in-the-Curriculum Program (AweHunters), and Job Readiness Program (Ready to Work), so your whole school can get behind the success of your students.
Use a common language
You’ll find that just about everyone can get a grasp on the CADI Clusters, which means everyone will be on the same page and speaking the same language, whether that’s in the classroom, in career consultations, or at home with families.
Be diverse and inclusive
Avoid common stereotypes and limiting assumptions, and create a welcoming career program for all your students. Schools who serve students with unique learning needs find it easy to use our flexible and inclusive resources.
Get your families on board
It’s so important to bring the whole family into the conversation, but parents are busy and can sometimes feel unsure. With the CADI Clusters, it’s easy for families to get involved in the conversation (and even review their own career choices).
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Wanda Hayes, Career Counsellor and ex-President of CDAA
You have one of the most important roles in your school, and we’re here to make your life easier with an ecosystem of easy-to-use and effective resources you can trust.
Hear how Wanda and Loren have used Study Work Grow resources in their school to broaden horizons.
Programs & Resources
Cover every aspect of career development, whatever your context
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to career development, and with Study Work Grow you can craft a comprehensive career education program that suits you and your students.
Choose from our range of easy-to-use and flexible programs to build the career development skills and knowledge your students need. If you’d like to learn more about our programs and access some free sample resources please reach out to our team for a chat.
Bring careers into the curriculum
Introduce students to hundreds of pathways they may never have considered and make learning relevant with our careers-in-the-curriculum program. AweHunters is designed for every year level, from kindergarten through to senior secondary, and includes materials to support your teachers to use the program resources.
Build core career development skills
Help your students develop the skills they need to navigate their careers, so they feel confident taking their first steps into the world of work. Integrate the Ponder Program into homeroom or mentor sessions across the school or for specific year levels, as this program is specifically designed to build skills like work exploration, making decisions, finding balance, and taking feedback, or use Ready to Work to build job readiness skills.
Foster positive career exploration
Encourage your students to think broadly about the possibilities and explore the world of work through the lens of the CADI Career Clusters. You’ll find introductory lessons, workbooks, and the online quiz, which has been successfully used by over 30,000 students across the world to kick-start the exploration process.
Plan for the future
Create Career Action Plans that encourage reflection while scaffolding the decision-making process. You can use the Ponder Plans with students from Year 5 to build planning and decision making skills while also ensuring that all the key points are considered.
Partner with the experts in career education
We’re a student-focused and for-purpose Social Enterprise, serving schools, universities, and organisations in over 30 countries, and we’ve been doing it since 2006.
Your students come first in all we do, which means we make decisions in their best interests:
- Our systems are safe, and we collect as little data as possible (and we never share it with anyone)
- We reinvest profit into new and innovative programs
- We support disadvantaged schools with low-or-no cost programs
- Everything we create is designed by educational experts and qualified Career Development Practitioners
It's a great way to start the conversation
When you request a demonstration of our platform and programs, we’ll find a time that works for you, learn a little bit about your school, and then show you through the resources other schools like yours use most often. If you don’t have time to meet online that’s ok, we can send you a stack of information via email or even have a chat over the phone.
You’ll chat with one of our team, and we’re pretty small, so that means you’ll speak with either Liz or Rob (or possibly both). There’s zero pressure, because we know that no one product is right for every school, but we’ll show you how things work so you can make your own decision. We don’t really ‘do’ sales, so there’s no hard push, plus Lucy, our Chief Career Practitioner (and Founder) likes giving things away so you’ll end up with lots of freebies in any case.
Lucy Sattler
Chief Career Practitioner
Ready to book a demo?
Just share some information about your context, so we can work out how best to serve you, and we’ll be in touch with lots more information.