(Aligned to SCSA Careers and Employability General — Year 11)
Every career starts somewhere. Foundations of Workplace Success is where students build the foundation.
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Foundations of Workplace Success (Foundations) gives students the knowledge, mindset and practical skills to explore career options and step confidently into entry-level work. Across two units, students move from self-discovery to job-readiness: understanding their own strengths, values and work preferences, then building the tools to back it up, a résumé, a personal brand, and a career portfolio they can actually use.
Students learn to build a growth mindset and emotional intelligence, explore the different types of work and career pathways available to them, and develop the enterprising behaviours, initiative, adaptability, problem-solving, that employers look for. From there, they move into the practical side of work-readiness: personal branding, networking, workplace rights and responsibilities, and the government legislation and documents that shape entry-level employment, including work health and safety and the National Employment Standards.
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Delivered online through Learnworlds, each lesson combines a short video, an independent workbook activity, a classroom activity for group learning, and a lesson quiz, giving teachers a ready-to-run program that needs minimal preparation, without sacrificing depth.
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Foundations is developed in alignment with the SCSA Careers and Employability (General Year 11) syllabus, covering the Employability Skills and Career Knowledge & Understanding components, with practice assessment tasks designed around the same task types schools are required to use (investigations, a career portfolio, and response tasks).
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Like every Impowrd program, Foundations is indicatively standards-aligned and teacher-ready: no extra prep, no guesswork, just a program your school can pick up and deliver with confidence. This program is a resource for teachers to deliver the learning outcomes for the relevant Careers & Employability syllabus. Completion of this program does not automatically provide WACE points in Western Australia. Refer to SCSA's website for the full details on obtaining WACE credits.
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Completion of Foundations is a prerequisite for students moving into our Foundations of Workplace Success: Transitions (Transitions) program in Year 12. Transitions is a resource to deliver the SCSA Careers and Employability (General Year 12) syllabus. For more information on Transitions, visit the program page here.
By the end of Foundations of Workplace Success, students can:
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Communicate and collaborate with confidence — write and speak clearly for different audiences, work effectively in a team, and use digital tools safely and professionally
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Understand themselves and their options — build a growth mindset and emotional intelligence, and explore the career pathways, work environments and employment types available to them
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Think and act enterprisingly — apply initiative, adaptability and problem-solving, and use real decision-making models like SWOT and DECIDE
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Plan a pathway — set SMART goals, build a personal pathway plan, and use self-reflection to work out what's actually the right fit
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Build a personal brand — develop a professional online and in-person presence, and understand what employers expect in terms of reliability and conduct
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Produce real, usable job-ready materials — a résumé and a complete career portfolio, built and refined across the program
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Know their rights and responsibilities — understand workplace health and safety, the National Employment Standards, and what to expect in an employment contract
By completion, students have everything they need to move from exploring their options to actively applying for entry-level work, setting them up for Foundations of Workplace Success: Transitions in Year 12.
What students walk away with