NAGCAS (National Association of Graduate Career Advisory Services) is Australia’s peak professional body for career development in the higher and tertiary education sector. Our members are professionals working in the student career development, employability, and graduate employment space. NAGCAS promotes an environment of professional collegiality and collaboration for experts working to support the career development learning, employability and graduate employment of students engaged in higher education learning. NAGCAS works to build and raise a strong awareness of the importance of career development and employability across the sector.
NAGCAS is a member of the Career Industry Council of Australia (CICA) and is a member-service incorporated association under the Queensland Associations Incorporation Act. The Association’s operations are governed by the NAGCAS Constitution and managed by a National Management Committee elected from within the membership.
Career development is the process of managing life, learning, work, leisure, and transitions across the lifespan in order to move towards a personally determined future. The most highly cited definition of employability describes it as a “psychosocial construct that embodies individual characteristics that foster adaptive cognition, behaviour, and affect, and enhance the individual-work interface”. Employability is about individuals consciously deploying career adaptability to actively secure work that rewards them for their knowledge and skills that are in demand in a given context.
NAGCAS provides support and expertise in:
• Career development
• Careers and employability learning
• Graduate employability
• Work integrated learning
• University and employer engagement
• Careers and employability education and policy development
Our Mission
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our members with each other and with industry and community organisations through a range of engaging networking and development opportunities
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our members to develop and deliver effective and evidence-based practice through access to relevant continuing professional development programs
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stakeholders and thought leaders to recognise and value the contribution of career development to employability and WIL strategies through collaborative research
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