Not sure which career is right for you?
Start exploring with trusted tools and up-to-date information from Australian government career sites.
Discover job profiles, industry insights, and future employment trends to help you match your skills and interests with real opportunities.
Your next step starts here
Choosing a career can feel overwhelming — but the right tools can make it clearer and more exciting. Investigating careers is about exploring your interests, understanding your strengths, and matching them with real opportunities in the workforce.
On this page, you’ll find links to reliable, up-to-date information from Australian government sources. These resources let you dive into occupation profiles, compare industries, check job growth trends, and explore training pathways.
Whether you’re starting high school subject selection, considering uni or TAFE, or exploring apprenticeships, these tools will help you make confident, well-informed decisions about your future.
Tips for Investigating Careers:
- Start with your interests and skills – Use career quizzes or skills-matching tools to get ideas.
- Research the job market – Look at growth trends, salary ranges, and future demand.
- Explore industries, not just jobs – Many skills transfer across sectors.
- Talk to people in the field – Ask about their work, pathways, and advice.
- Try work experience or volunteering – It’s a great way to test-drive a career.
- Stay open-minded – The perfect career might not be one you’ve heard of yet.
My Future
Unlock your future with myfuture, Australia’s National Career Information Service. Grounded in research and government‑held data, it helps students build self‑awareness through a nine‑activity 'My career' profile, tapping into interests, skills, values, and more to generate personalised occupation suggestions.
Beyond that, myfuture offers 360° career exploration tools: 358 occupation profiles, Career Bullseyes linking school subjects to job clusters, industry insights, career articles (e.g. work experience, apprenticeships), pathway visuals, course search, and real career stories from others.
Your Career
Explore careers with clarity and confidence using Your Career, the Australian Government’s interactive resource for school leavers.
The platform lets students search and compare occupations and industries, take career quizzes to pinpoint their interests and skills, and discover tailored pathways across VET, apprenticeships, higher education, or employment.
It also offers tools like My Skills to search and evaluate nationally‑recognised training courses and providers, plus insights from the annual Australian Jobs Report featuring state‑ and territory‑level data on industries and job opportunities.
Jobs and Skills Australia
The Jobs and Skills Australia platform equips students with comprehensive, up-to-date labour market intelligence to make informed career choices.
Its Occupation and Industry Profiles deliver deep insights into employment volumes, demographics, earnings, and educational pathways. Meanwhile, the Jobs and Skills Atlas allows you to tailor your research to your region—comparing occupations, studying industry shifts, and understanding training outcomes.
With additional data on job vacancies, recruitment trends, and projected growth, this government-run resource empowers you to match your interests and abilities with real-world opportunities, and plan a future that’s both meaningful and achievable.