Our Story
Founded in 2011, CareerTools was built by Careers Advisors, for Careers Advisors.
Our Founders
Dave
David has been a Career Practitioner for over 25 years with the NSW Department of Education and training, specialising in Career intervention both face 2 face and via distance learning with geograp...
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Kim
For the past 13 years Kim has been the conduit in providing employment services expertise by providing consultation and intervention with users for all Career Services. She is an Associate Member o...
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The Year13 Team
Saxon Phipps
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Year13. Year13 strives to democratise opportunity to empower all young people into intrinsically motivated education and employment by utilising data & technology to effect...
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Will Stubley
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Co-Founder of Year13, Australia's largest digital platform for high school leavers, Will Stubley is passionate about industry's role in the transition period from high-school. Utilising his enginee...
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Hannah Curtis
Chief Operating Officer
Hannah Curtis is a successful senior executive with over 12 years of experience and a background in leadership, strategy and operational optimisation. She has built her career developing high perfo...
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Adam McArthur
Chief Financial Officer
Adam has worked in leadership roles across education, construction and ecommerce for the last 20 years. Starting out in strategy and business development roles, Adam has worked in Asia, Latin Ameri...
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The Career Tools Team
Laura Peisley
CICA ID number: 1036
Laura started her career in education as a PDHPE teacher, spending her first 4 years delivering an extra-curricular girls wellbeing program and providing HSC tuition and support to senior school Ab...
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Anna Langley
CICA ID number: 1195
Anna has extensive experience in the education and training sector, having begun her career as a workplace trainer-assessor in the VET sector and later working in government and corporate recruitme...
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Kenneth Hendricks
Senior Developer
Holding a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Sydney, Kenneth is one of our senior developers who has worked within the e-learning space for most of his career. He has exte...
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Jesse Whelan
Head of Strategy and Analytics
Jesse has over 15 years of experience in Strategy and Education. While at Boston Consulting Group, a global strategy consulting firm, he worked across government, financial services, mining and con...
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Maisie Taylor
Customer Success Manager
Maisie is the Customer Success Manager at Career Tools, her role includes but is not limited to overseeing all of the customer cycle and managing the customer team. She has over 7 years Customer Su...
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Lillian Gorman
Lillian’s passion for education and technology led her to Year13/Career Tools, where she is currently Head of Content & Production.
Prior to Year13, Lillian spent over five years in the highe...
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National
Peak Body
CICA, as the National Peak Body, is responsible for developing and promoting the Professional Standards for Australian Career Development Practitioners and leads the industry to ensure a commonly u...
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Our continual improvement
To maintain best practice in career education, our Career Tools practitioners are continually receiving professional development and training through the Career Industry Council of Australia and its member associations.
All CareerTools Advisors are registered on The Australian Register of Professional Career Development Practitioners (the Register) as the single national point of reference for ensuring and promoting professional career development practitioners across the whole industry in Australia and is a further step in the professionalisation of the industry.
Active participants in the
conversation
Government and industry reviews into careers education contribute significantly to Year 13’s product development and planning. This includes:
The rollout of Career Tools across the Australian Capital Territory
NSW Government, Department of Industry & Year13 Post-Schooling Pathways Report
The rollout of Career Tools across South Australia