Michelle Harvey coordinates BUSS 1060 Career Development for Professionals, BUSS 2036 Training and Development and BEHL 2021 Career Development, and has various inputs into other courses. She has collaborated with the Student Engagement Unit’s Careers Services Team to develop online career education resources and started work for UniSA as a Careers Adviser assisting students with career, employability and job search matters. Before joining UniSA, Michelle was a career and outplacement specialist helping people transition from one career to another.
Michelle started her post-secondary studies with a Bachelor of Accountancy but became convinced her calling lay elsewhere. After reading What Color Is My Parachute by... Read more
About me
Michelle Harvey coordinates BUSS 1060 Career Development for Professionals, BUSS 2036 Training and Development and BEHL 2021 Career Development, and has various inputs into other courses. She has collaborated with the Student Engagement Unit’s Careers Services Team to develop online career education resources and started work for UniSA as a Careers Adviser assisting students with career, employability and job search matters. Before joining UniSA, Michelle was a career and outplacement specialist helping people transition from one career to another.
Michelle started her post-secondary studies with a Bachelor of Accountancy but became convinced her calling lay elsewhere. After reading What Color Is My Parachute by Richard Bolles, she took a year off, travelled around South America and South Africa and became a travel agent. The following year Michelle wisely chipped away at the remainder of her degree.
Since then, Michelle has traversed a varied career path including retail, corporate and airline travel, human resources recruitment and management, accounting, small business ownership, content creation & development, and career education & development. She has sated the travel bug with many overseas adventures and undertaken post-graduate studies in Neuroscience and Career Education & Development. She is currently completing a Graduate Diploma in Education Studies (Digital Learning).
These days, Michelle understands that gaining self-knowledge and career direction takes more than just reading a book (though that can be a start), and she enjoys teaching others about the multi-dimensional considerations of effective career planning.
Michelle takes particular interested in the changes occurring in the labour market and recruitment & selection due to factors such as globalisation, automation and technology, and the adaptation of the workforce to these changes, as well as general career development topics. Other areas of interest include the neuroscience of learning, artificial intelligence, unconscious bias, and career education & development. Oh, and travel, though not so much lately...
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Career Industry Council of Australia (CICA)
Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA)
National Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (NAGCAS)
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Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience (Learning) Flinders University
Graduate Certificate in Careers Education and Development RMIT University
Bachelor of Accountancy University of South Australia
Course Coordinator/Lecturer, 2017 - current
Career Consultant/Business Owner, 2009 - current
Human Resources/Recruitment Consultant, 2011 - 2014
Director/Accountant/Business Manager, 2005 - 2009
Airline/International Travel Consultant, 1997 - 2002
Teaching & student supervision