Career Services
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Consulting
Want to learn more about the benefits of hiring ADF partners and how to do it? Get expert advice from career specialist and Churchill Fellow Amanda McCue
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Why Career Swag?
Career Swag owner Amanda McCue is an experienced career development practitioner and a military spouse employment Churchill Fellow. She is committed to ensuring that job seekers receive the highest quality career development support to help them find satisfying, meaningful employment. The information and support your receive from Amanda is up to date, evidence-informed and tailored to suit your individual circumstances. Career Swag supports all job seekers and specialise in assisting transitioning military members, military spouses, job changers and parents returning to work. Read more about how Amanda can help with your job search here.
As an expert consultant on military spouse employment Amanda can help employers, governments, non-profit groups and other stakeholders better understand the widespread benefits of supporting military spouse career development including how to help overcome some of the employment challenges faced my military spouses. Amanda has been involved in military spouse employment since 2013 both in Australia and the USA and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2017 to undertake applied research in this field. Her report and subsequent work has been shared with a variety of national and international stakeholders. She has presented on military spouse employment at the Career Development Association of Australia 2019 conference and has presentations scheduled at Cannexus 2022 and the National Career Development Association 2022 Conference. In November 2021 Amanda hosted the very successful inaugural International Military Spouse Employment Summit.
Amanda has a Graduate Certificate of Career Development, is a Professional Member of the Career Development Association of Australia (and the President of the ACT NT Division) and is committed to upholding the Career Industry Council of Australia Professional Standards and Code of Ethics. In 2019 she was awarded the CDAA Award for Excellence in Career Development Policy.
