Michelle Harvey is Course Coordinator and Lecturer for BUSS 1060 Career Development for Professionals. She has collaborated with the Student Engagement Unit’s Careers Team to develop online career education resources. Prior to these roles, Michelle worked as a Careers Adviser, assisting students with career, employability and job search matters at UniSA's City West campus.
Michelle started her post-secondary life studying 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 studied to become a travel agent. The following year whilst working as a travel agent, Michelle... Read more
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Michelle Harvey is Course Coordinator and Lecturer for BUSS 1060 Career Development for Professionals. She has collaborated with the Student Engagement Unit’s Careers Team to develop online career education resources. Prior to these roles, Michelle worked as a Careers Adviser, assisting students with career, employability and job search matters at UniSA's City West campus.
Michelle started her post-secondary life studying 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 studied to become a travel agent. The following year whilst working as a travel agent, Michelle wisely chipped away at the remainder of her degree.
In the years since then, Michelle has traversed a varied career path including human resources and recruitment, accounting, small business ownership, content creation & development and career education & development. She has sated the travel bug with numerous overseas adventures, and undertook post-graduate studies in Neuroscience, Career Education & Development and Education Studies. She now understands that gaining self-knowledge takes more than just reading a book (though that can be a start), and enjoys teaching others about the multi-dimensional considerations of effective career planning.
Michelle is interested in the changes occurring in the labour market, and in recruitment and selection, due to factors such as globalisation and automation, and in the adaptation of the workforce to these changes. Other areas of interest include the neuroscience of learning, artificial intelligence in recruitment and selection, unconscious bias and its effect on decision-making, and career education & development particularly for young people, career changers and skilled migrants.
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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