How to Know Which Diploma is Right for You: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Right Course

Choosing a Diploma or educational path can be an important milestone in your life. You want to go the extra mile to guarantee you are making the best decision for you and the goals that you have set...


How to Set and Achieve Career, Life and Daily Goals

The rush that comes from achieving your goals is one of life’s greatest pleasures. For many people, the idea of setting goals, let alone achieving them, can feel uncomfortable and lead to goal-setting resistance. However, the path towards...


How to Progress in your Career if you have Already Hit the Ceiling

At some point in everyone’s career, you will be faced with the feeling of being overlooked or undervalued as you butt your head up against a glass ceiling. Nowadays, even the stats can seem against you. It’s no...


Which Human Resources Qualification is Right for You?

If you’re looking to enter the Human Resources field but don’t know where to start, a qualification is the best place to begin. You’ll learn about the fundamentals of Human Resources and can even choose to double up...


Career Advancement Tips for this Decade – How to Get Where you Want to Be

As a new decade begins, it is important to stay on top of important changes occurring across the global workforce. From technological advancements to the important development of soft skills, there are strategic ways to advance your career....


Why you Should Study an AHRI-accredited HR Diploma

Why work in the human resources industry? Employers place a high value on the organisations which represent and support prospective employees. Doctors, lawyers and accountants, for example, are almost always members of peak professional bodies. The human resources...


Top Study Tips from a CAL Student

Whilst studying online is great for flexibly studying when you want, and the ability to work through your study in your own time, you may be wondering how other students are successfully achieving their qualifications. Below are some...


Why the Practice Management Diploma Offers Realistic Job Outcomes

Practice Management is an excellent career choice with an ever-increasing demand for qualified candidates. You’ll find this is a job choice that is rewarding, challenging and enjoyable – where no two days are the same. What is practice...


How to get Actual Job Outcomes from Business and Leadership & Management Diplomas

Every single day across Australia, about 2.3 million businesses are engaging in the marketplace. Almost 900,000 of these employ at least one person, apart from the owner. All these businesses are trying to carve a niche and make...


Why the Project and Construction Management Diplomas Offer Realistic Job Outcomes

Construction remains the big Australian employer Each year, Australia’s construction industry contributes about $350 billion to the economy, roughly 8% of our gross domestic product. Even when the property market hit rock bottom in mid-2019 (after reaching its...


Why the Diploma of Business (Procurement) (BSB50120) offers Realistic Job Outcomes

Procurement is rapidly becoming one of the most important roles in business, and across a variety of industries. The role of a Procurement Officer or Purchasing Manager is to optimise their company’s spending, ensuring that they are acquiring...


How your Life Skills and Experience can Help you Achieve a Diploma Qualification

There is no one-size-fits-all way to obtain your diploma, and there is no single type of person that is perfectly fit for seeking further education. Anyone, with a variety of different skills and experiences, can access higher education...


The Many Opportunities in Project Management

Project Management is a crucial career that ensures the success of projects in a variety of industries and fields. Tasks such as planning, budgeting, overseeing staff, and ensuring that projects run smoothly will all fall under your job...


How to Earn and Ask for an End of Year Bonus

With the end of the year rapidly approaching, people’s minds and thoughts are beginning to turn to Christmas trees, presents, spending time with family, and maybe even a little holiday. For others, before the break begins, many start...


Why a Diploma of Business is the Best Career Choice

Why undertake a business diploma? Learning business skills is, of course, the obvious goal when it comes to undertaking the Diploma of Business (Leadership) (BSB50120). But what exactly will you learn? How will that help you achieve your...


What does the New National Return to Work Strategy mean for You?

More than 500,000 Australians suffer from injuries or diseases related to employment every year, costing the economy almost $62 billion. The Australian Government recognises the huge economic and human cost of the problem and has recently released the...


Why the Right LMS is Critical for Student Success

Critical developments in Learning Management Systems (LMS) have meant that tertiary and higher education institutions can now make their learning even more efficient and friendly for their students. In days gone by educators and students would spend hours...


How to be a Successful Leader

Leaders of the modern world in 2020 and beyond are required to be more aware and involved with their company, their employees, and their processes than ever before. To be a successful leader, you must ensure you provide...


Would a career in Human Resources suit you?

A career in Human Resources encompasses a broad spectrum of disciplines, but when someone refers to “Human Resources” or “HR”, they are describing people in a company who manage the resources needed from, or for employees. Running your...


The Changing Face of Workplace Diversity

The changing face of workplace diversity is a sensitive but necessary topic that all businesses need to discuss when they are considering employing new staff. Workplaces look significantly different now when compared to a decade or so ago,...


The Advantages of Learning Human Resources Management Online

Anne M. Mulcahy, the former head of Xerox Corporation, famously said that “employees are an organisation’s greatest asset. Human resources management is all about taking care of the organisation’s greatest asset: its’ people.” So what is human resources...


The Advantages of Learning Project Management Online

Project management is an excellent career option that comes with many benefits. But what is project management exactly and what kinds of duties does it involve? Here, we’ll take a closer look at the importance of project management...


Why Continual Learning is the Key to Career Progression

Not everyone links learning with an adult lifestyle. But more and more people are realising the benefits of continual learning, even after school has finished. Here, we’ll look at the benefits of continual learning for career progression. We’ll...


A Guide to Returning to Work

There are many reasons why people return to work after spending time away. You may have had a new baby join your family, needed to care for a family member, taken time out to attend to your health,...


How to Stay Job Ready if you get Injured at Work

Getting injured at work can be an upsetting and stressful experience for yourself, your family and your colleagues. It can often mean extended periods of leave, time at home, and a potential loss of income or mobility. After...


What are the Core Workplace Skills you need?

Soft skills like communication, leadership, and conflict resolution, are all critical in an office environment. However, they are not the only important skills a candidate will need to succeed. Having the following practical and technical skills will be...


Tips for a Successful Startup

The Startup culture has seen exponential growth around the world in the last decade. Those in the startup world see it differently to other more traditional new businesses. To quote CEO and founder Neil Blumenthal, “A startup is...


Best Ways to Work Remotely for Work and Study

Are you keen to understand how to work remotely? Work and study environments are not the same conventional structure they used to be in the past. Businesses are now hiring people who are looking for flexible workspaces. These...


How to Get a Promotion to Support Rising Living Costs

The average Australian will agree that living costs are continuing to rise. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) found that in 2018, the cost of living rose by over 2%, which is the highest recorded growth for almost...


How to Have it All with Flexible Study

We are all familiar with the saying, ‘you can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job’. Then, once you’ve got a ‘foot in the door’, the next thing to consider is the...