Use a school Career Education system that works
Make Career Education more structured, comprehensive, and easier to run with resources that students love and educators are happy to use
Career Education Programs + Communication Tools
1-in-3 Australian schools (plus schools in NZ and the UK) are happy Study Work Grow members
Careers Advisors all over Australia (and in 35 countries around the world) use Study Work Grow to run amazing careers programs in their school settings. Plus you can feel safe knowing your students data is secure as we’ve successfully qualified for the Safer Technology 4 Schools (ST4S) Badge Program.
Teach Career Management Skills
The Ponder Program builds robust career management skills, in line with best-practice international frameworks.
Start Career Conversations
The Career Clusters help students to discover where they ‘fit’ in the world of work. Best of all, it gets everyone at school talking the same careers language.
No logins required
Our programs are all designed without logins for teachers or students – making them super shareable and simple to implement
You'll be popular with Ponder Pathways
Make careers visible and start better conversations
The Term 1 ‘Ponder Pathways’ resources have already been celebrated far and wide by our wonderful member schools.
But if you’d also like to have these this term, you’ll have to be quick.
As a small team doing big things, we can only give personalised onboardings to 20 schools in Term 1 (and now there’s only 14 spots left). Make this year your best yet by starting a Ponder Membership today. Click the button or read-on for more info.
(Thank you for your LinkedIn post Jody, we love your work!)
The 'wish-list' programs you've always wanted
Careers Programs that make your job easier
Careers Advisors love having a Study Work Grow membership because we make them look good at school (and save them heaps of time).
"We are loving using the Ponder resources in our Learning for Life classes across years 10 - 12.
"We love your work and use your resources DAILY!!! They are hands-down the best, most engaging resources for students to follow."
Ponder Program
Help your whole school to teach Career Management skills
The Ponder Program is an Australian success story – integrating the Australian Blueprint and the ACARA General Capabilities into an amazing set of 58 easy-to-run lessons you and your educators can deliver.
- Short 10-minute versions for home-room, tutor time, or form class, or longer 40-minute versions for careers lessons, pastoral care, PDHPE/PSHE, personal development time
- Lessons, Workshops, and Panel Sessions for lots of variety
- Year Level Teacher Guides – make it easier than ever to get educators delivering lessons
- Best of all, it’s super flexible – you can run it any way you like
- It also integrates the NZ Career Management Competencies and UK CDI Framework too, making it an internationally popular program
Simply open the PowerPoint slides, play the short animated video, and follow our teacher notes.
Careers lessons, done 
"Where has this program been all my life?? This is fantastic!!! All schools need to include this in their Strategic Improvement Planning."
Ready to Work
Ready your students to find, secure, and maintain their first job
Careers Advisors teach the same job readiness basics each year, but often without an easy-to-run system for doing it. That’s where Ready to Work makes it so much easier.
It helps you teach students how to:
- Find a job (or similar work-related role)
- Communicate effectively with employers
- Write a resume/CV and apply for a job
- Attend and complete an interview
- Get started at their chosen work
It’s 10 exciting lessons, compiled for you into a step-by-step teaching framework with everything you need to get them job-ready.
CADI Career Clusters
Help students understand their Vocational Identity
Change their first career conversations from “Which job?”, to “Which Cluster?” (which is a much better way to start career exploration).
This incredible course includes a Teaching Guide with flexible lesson options, a Student Workbook for activities, and a GDPR Compliant online Career Cluster Quiz. So you’ll be able to help them find where they ‘fit’.
Unlike other psychometric tests that cost money per student, you can use the Clusters entirely for free (it’s included in our all of our memberships).
AweHunters - New for 2025
Connect careers with what they are learning in class
AweHunters makes it easy for your teachers to link their subject lesson content with the real-world.
- Direct curriculum links to Mathematics, English, History, Science, Art & Technology plus many other common secondary school subjects
- 30 interesting and exciting careers to explore for each cohort from Year 7 to 12 to broaden their view of what’s possible
- Individually themed year levels to suit their stage in school
- Each lesson is 10-20 minutes, with slides, videos, activities and teacher notes to make it easy to fit into bigger lessons
- Plus there’s 210 primary school lessons too, so you can introduce careers to your feeder schools (and become a local centre of excellence)
It’s the smart way for Careers Advisors to grow their Careers Programs without having to ask for more curriculum time.
NEW FOR 2026 - Our 'Job of the Week' program
Start your whole school talking about careers with Ponder Pathways
Each Ponder Pathways module gives you everything you need to run a Job of the Week program with impact – with a new theme for each Term. We’ve taken our popular Job Spotlight resources and bundled them into future-focused themes that will get everyone talking.
With handbooks, posters, fact sheets, and curriculum connections, you’ll have everything you need to structure your career conversations for an entire term.
"We have just gone back to school and are so excited about your Wanderers theme. We're putting up posters and sending off information to teachers and students each week. Well done on such excellent resources -they are so useful."
Available now for Ponder Member schools
Thanks for sharing your display Adam! (13 Feb, 2026)
Travel-based careers where expertise goes global, from expedition leaders to export managers
Shaping sustainable production, future materials, and responsible material design
Professionals who shape the spaces where we live, work, and gather, creating communities that work for everyone
Careers across the food system, from farm to fork, reimagining how we grow, distribute, and consume food.
Get everyone thinking about careers
Communication Tools that save you time and make you look great
Our wildly popular career education resources include Weekly Newsletter Events & Articles, shareable Student Pathways Guides, Job Spotlights that profile different careers, and a Careers Website for you to share it all on.
It’s all so you can spend less time creating content, and more time doing what you do best.
Fully flexible, easy to use
Start delivering in less than 5 minutes
Running a comprehensive career education program at school has never been easier.
Simply choose the materials you like from our world-leading collection, make any adjustments you wish, and then support your team or teachers as they deliver the content.
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 in just minutes
Start the conversation
Sit back and watch the career conversations flow
"We will definitely be continuing with the membership. I find some much value in what you put together. It would be impossible to do this job well and put all that information together"
School Case Study
"You make us look good!"
Hear how Wanda Hayes (Career Counsellor and ex-President of CDAA) and Loren Soden (Pathways Counsellor) use Study Work Grow at school to broaden horizons.
Schools love working with us
Putting you and your students first
Every decision we make about resources, processes, or programs is with your students’ best interests in mind:
- Our systems are safe, and we collect as little data as possible (and unlike some companies in our space, we never share it with anyone. Ever.)
- We reinvest profits 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
Your Head of Curriculum will be happy
Gain access to globally-recognised, best-practice programs
The Ponder Program was one of the first Career Education frameworks in Australia to be independently reviewed and awarded ‘Commended’ status by the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA).
The assessment criteria of Content, Credibility, Originality, Usefulness, Currency, Value, and Accessibility that Ponder met or exceeded means that you can purchase the Ponder Program with confidence.
Ponder has also been featured in the OECD’s Observatory on Digital Technologies in Career Guidance for Youth (ODICY) repository of global best practice resources – recognised for it’s high quality and level of innovation.
Anywhere, any school
Can these programs work in my educational setting?
(The short answer is YES)
Our educational programs are used in over 1,500 secondary schools, universities, and youth-focused organisations across the world with great success.
From major metropolitan universities to tiny regional schools, they just slot straight in without any adjustment needed.
They work in schools with multiple Career Practitioners and budgets most of us can only dream of, just as well as they do in schools with no qualified full-time Career Practitioner on staff.
You’re the expert in your own context, so everything is designed to be easily customisable by you for your specific situation.
Only teach careers in one year ? Or Seniors? Or all grades?
That’s totally ok – select the resources which will be of most value for your learners from each unit.
Want to pick and choose lessons?
Absolutely you can. All of the hard work is done for you, so just choose what works for you and start teaching. How will you use it at your school?
Why Study Work Grow?
The social enterprise that reinvests in career education
In a world where education companies are driven by investors to deliver profits, Study Work Grow stands out.
Because we’re a privately owned social enterprise (and funded by schools), our profits go into new program materials and resources to help you deliver better career guidance.
Here’s what Holly has to say –
Need more good reasons to join us?
"I get 5 mins a week for Ponder – a great way for students to start the week in 2023. I just love the video and the one question for discussion – just brilliant."
"I have really loved this approach to ponder. We haven’t gotten through much because we are having very deep class discussions which has been really enjoyable for myself and the students."
"The website is incredible and we actually used the quiz with our Grade 10 students at camp in the weekend. They each have their own unique cluster and I will share these with their career advisors to help guide career planning discussions."
"We are looking forward to more actively incorporating resources and lesson plans this year. Will keep you updated with feedback."
There are membership options to suit all schools and budgets
Are you from New Zealand or the UK? We invoice all of our NZ and UK member schools on 30 day terms the same as our Australian ones, but in your local currency to make it easy (see pricing below). And don’t worry, it’s all GST Free. 😊
Shareable tools for your school
$550 ex GST per year
A huge collection of quality, time-saving materials you can share with your school community each week.
- Researched Weekly News
- Student Guides + Job Spotlights
- Resource Library
- Custom School Careers Website
- 12 months from the day you start
- Fixed price, any school size
- Australian schools only
Plus, you’ll get free access to the Cadi Career Clusters student quiz and teaching materials.
All Programs + All Tools
$880 ex GST per year (AUD)
The most popular option for Australian, NZ, and UK schools, it enables you to easily deliver a best-practice careers program.
You get everything in a Basics Membership, plus –
- The Ponder Program – 58 lessons for Years 6-12
- Ready-to-Work – full job readiness program for Years 9 & 10
- The Cadi Clusters student quiz + Detailed student results
- NEW Ponder Pathways resources with four exciting career themes to explore each school year
- Fixed price, any school size
NZ Schools $965 per year (NZD)
UK Schools £430 per year (GBP)
No-cost Psychometric Tool
Free for Education use
The Cadi Career Clusters is a world-wide program that helps people work out where they fit in the world of work.
- Used in 35+ countries and with over 50,000 quiz results
- Free PDF report for students
- Includes teaching and presentation materials
- Data is securely stored (GDPR Compliant) and is not shared with anyone, at any time
Want to chat instead? A free Demo is a great way to start
If you’re not sure which of the programs you’d like or you simply have a question to answer first, just click the button to request a free Demo. We look forward to hearing from you.
Lucy Sattler
Chief Career Practitioner
(and chief giver of free stuff)
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