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Embed Fundamentals. Strengthen Explore. Identify more career goals.
Fundamentals for Jobseekers is a guided, AI-supported course designed for Inclusive Employment Australia providers.
The course helps ECs, Job Coaches and jobseekers work together to build trust, explore interests and strengths, identify conditions for success, develop career themes and confirm a clear career goal.
Aligned to Fundamentals for Inclusive Employment, this course gives providers a practical way to embed the same language, framework and person-centred approach with jobseekers across the Explore stage.
Course Overview
Fundamentals for Jobseekers supports Inclusive Employment Australia providers to strengthen the Explore stage by giving jobseekers and their EC or Job Coach a guided process to work through together.
The course is designed to help jobseekers better understand themselves, what matters to them, what they are good at, what they need to succeed and what kind of work could be right for them.
Through practical portfolio activities, jobseekers are supported to build a personal record of their employment journey, including their why, interests, skills, needs, career themes and career goal/success plan. The course is not designed to be completed alone. It is a collaborative process between the jobseeker and their EC or Job Coach.
By completion, the jobseeker will have completed the Explore phase, confirmed a career goal, and be ready to move into the Progress phase with their EC. The course also introduces the genU Training AI App, which supports jobseekers to practise communication, soft skills and interview readiness at their own pace.
This comprehensive training package supports
- Structured Explore-stage conversations between ECs, Job Coaches and jobseekers
- Greater consistency in how providers embed Fundamentals for Inclusive Employment
- Jobseekers to understand their rights, choices and role in the employment journey
- Exploration of interests, strengths, skills and motivators
- Identification of conditions for success and potential barriers
- Development of career themes and career direction
- Confirmation of a clear career goal and success plan
- Practical use of portfolio activities to capture the jobseeker’s journey
- Access to the genU Training AI App to support confidence, communication and future interview practice
Peter Bacon: CEO, Disability Employment Australia
“Early engagement is critical to long-term employment success, yet many jobseekers enter services without a clear understanding of their goals, strengths, support needs or what meaningful employment could look like for them. Fundamentals for Jobseekers addresses this challenge in a practical, person-centred and highly accessible way.
By creating a shared language between jobseekers and Employment Consultants through the Explore–Progress–Deliver framework, the program helps build trust, confidence and clarity from the very beginning of the employment journey. It is an important example of the kind of evidence-informed, co-designed capability development our sector needs to support stronger engagement and more sustainable employment outcomes for people with disability.”
Learn in short, guided modules
Fundamentals for Jobseekers includes four guided modules that can be completed with an EC or Job Coach across appointments.
This module helps jobseekers understand the employment journey, Inclusive Employment Australia services, their rights, and the role of their EC or Job Coach.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, jobseekers will:
- understand what help is available through Inclusive Employment Australia
- understand that they are at the centre of their employment journey
- understand the Explore, Progress, Deliver roadmap
- identify their personal “why” for wanting to work
- recognise normal feelings that may come up during the journey
- learn self-care strategies
- understand their rights at work
This module supports jobseekers to begin exploring who they are, what they enjoy, what energises them, and what skills they already have or may want to develop.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, jobseekers will:
- understand the exploration mindset
- approach career exploration with curiosity instead of pressure
- identify interests and preferred activities
- identify skills and strengths
- understand different types of skills
- manage feelings that may come up during exploration
- build confidence as they continue working with their EC or Job Coach
This module helps jobseekers connect their interests and skills to possible career directions. It also supports them to identify what they need in order to thrive at work.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, jobseekers will:
- understand what makes a good job
- identify conditions for success
- recognise potential barriers that may need to be addressed
- understand how interests and skills can point to career themes
- identify career themes they would like to explore further
work with their EC or Job Coach to build a clearer picture of possible career directions
This module brings the Explore stage together. Jobseekers review their career themes, confirm a specific career goal and develop a success plan with their EC or Job Coach.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, jobseekers will:
- confirm a specific career goal
- learn how to talk about their needs
- practise self-advocacy and sharing about disability where relevant
- manage self-doubt and stay motivated
- understand the next steps in the Progress phase
- complete their career goal and success plan
By the end of Fundamentals for Jobseekers, the jobseeker will have worked with their EC or Job Coach to complete the Explore stage and create a practical portfolio that includes:
- My Why & Self-Care Plan
- My Interests & Skills
- My Needs & Career Themes
- My Career Goal & Success Plan
This gives providers a structured way to support more jobseekers to move from uncertainty to a clearer, documented career direction.
genU Training AI App
Included: genU Training AI App
As part of the course, jobseekers are introduced to the genU Training AI App as a practice tool to support the next stage of their employment journey.
The app can support jobseekers to:
- practise conversations about themselves
- build confidence in speaking
- prepare for future interviews
- practise soft skills, communication, vocabulary and pronunciation
- learn at their own pace
AI-supported practice for the next step
The genU Training AI App gives jobseekers a safe, accessible way to practise communication, soft skills and interview readiness after they complete the course. ECs and Job Coaches can use the app to support continued progress toward the jobseeker’s confirmed career goal.
Register your interest
Fundamentals for Jobseekers is designed for Inclusive Employment Australia providers seeking a structured, scalable way to support jobseekers through the Explore stage.
Register your interest to learn more about provider enrolment options.