Australian Association of Career Counsellors (AACC)

Overview:

Profession(s): Career Develpment
Scope: National - Australia
Formed: 1989
Members: 1,500
Address: PO Box 5084, Alberton, 5014, Australia
Phone: 1800-222-390, +61-883-411-492
Fax: +61-883-411-635
Email: aaccnational@ozemail.com.au
Website: www.aacc.org.au

Description:

The Australian Association of Career Counsellors is a national organisation of practitioners who provide careers services for people seeking to enter the workforce or change worklife direction. Our members work in education, employment, rehabilitation, human resources, government service, community settings and private practice.

Mission/Aims:

Promote the recognition and professionalism of career services.
Provide a professional forum to present a national voice on career policy and practice.

Provide a structure to support members in their professional activities and represent career services to the wider community.

Facilitate activities to improve members' professional standards and competencies.

Enhance the quality, content and nature of career services for the community.

Principal Activities:

To assist the development and education of members as professionals about the diverse and on-going nature of workplace change.

To promote career counselling as a profession.

To provide professional leadership in careers counselling to all members.

To act as a central reference point for members and other interested parties.

To represent career counsellors in economic, business, education and labour market forums.

To lobby and respond to government policy initiatives on behalf of members for such things as a high level of employment nationally, training for development of individual career potential, and the professional recognition of career counselling.

To promote research in, and evaluation and improvement of, career guidance materials, techniques and professional issues.

To present an annual National/International Career Development Conference, rotating around Australia, highlighting issues and approaches related to career development.

Member Benefits:

Recognition of the profession through graded registration.

Professional development programs.

Regular State Division meetings.

Reduced rates at the annual international conference which is a significant forum highlighting trends in career services.

A quarterly newsletter.

Networking.

Access to professional indemnity insurance.

Social activities at state and national level.

Mentoring and professional support.

Access to information, research and resources through the internet web site.

Affiliations:

Partner Associations:
CICA - Careers Industry Council of Australia
ACTCEA - Australian Capital Territory Career Edcuation Association
CAANSW - Career Advisers Association of NSW Inc.
CEANT - Careers Educators Association of the Northern Territory
CEAV - Career Education Association of Victoria
CEAWA - Career Education Association of Western Australia CEAWA
EPLAA - Elite Performers Lifeskill Advisers Association
GCCA - The Graduate Careers Council of Australia
NAGCAS - National Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services
QASA - Queensland Association of Student Advisors
QGCA - Queensland Guidance and Counselling Association

Verification Criteria:

We now have in place a National Quality Standards Framework, including a set of ethics, to which all members are required to adhere; as well as offering on-going professional development for all members.