Make your next career move with your eyes open
Search roles, compare salaries, get ready for an interview, fix your resume or find a template you can adapt. Backed by real Australian pay, demand and pathway data.
Where are you up to?
Pick the one that sounds like you and get the three things worth doing, in order.
No target role yet? Start with what suits you, then check whether the numbers hold up.
- Answer a few questions about how you like to work and get real roles back, ranked. Career quiz
- Look at what those roles pay, how much study they need and where they lead. Browse roles by industry
- Check how much of the work is exposed to automation before you commit to it. AI job exposure checker
You know roughly what you're going for. Most of the work happens before you send the application.
- Find the role and check what it pays, how much demand there is and how people get in. Browse roles by industry
- Start from that role's resume, with example bullets written around what the job involves. Resume templates
- Work out what you'll be asked, and what each question is really testing. How to prepare for an interview
Staying where you are is a decision too, so make it with the same numbers you'd want if you were leaving.
- Check your take-home pay against the real median for your occupation. Salary calculator
- Make the case with evidence behind it, and know what you'll say if the answer is no. How to ask for a pay rise
- See what long service leave you've built up under your own state's rules. Long service leave calculator
Some moves need a short course, others need a degree, and it pays to know which one you're looking at before you commit.
- See which moves are realistic from where you are, and which need retraining first. How to change careers
- Compare the pay and demand where you're heading against where you are now. Browse roles by industry
- Rewrite what you've already done so it reads for the role you want next. Resume and cover letter templates
What a job pays, what the day-to-day looks like once you're in it, how exposed it is to AI and where it leads next. Every figure carries its source and the date it was published.
Advice
All adviceStraight answers for the moments that come up at work: pay, leave, interviews, resigning, redundancy. Sourced, and clear about where your state's rules differ from the next one's.
How to change careers, and which moves are realistic
Data on 1,573 career moves across 350 Australian occupations shows 63.3% need no more than a short course, though skill overlap alone won't tell you which ones. Six worked examples, and how to check your own move.
How to ask for a pay rise, and back it up with real numbers
What national wage growth looks like right now, how to work out a figure for your own role, wording you can adapt for the conversation, and what to do if the answer is no.
How to prepare for a job interview
What to work through before a job interview: a prep sheet built from the job ad, the stories that cover most questions, and the questions an interviewer can't lawfully ask in Australia.
What you're owed when you're made redundant
What a genuine redundancy payout should include, the Fair Work redundancy pay scale, the ATO tax-free amount for the 2026-27 financial year, and how a lump sum can affect when JobSeeker starts.
Tools
All toolsEach one takes the general figures and works out what they mean for your salary, your notice period, your leave balance.
Career quiz
Answer a few questions about how you like to work and get real roles back, ranked, with pay, demand and study time on each.
- Start it
- Grow it
- Change it
Salary calculator
Take-home pay from any salary or hourly rate, with HELP, super, Medicare and a payslip estimate, compared with the real median for your role.
- Grow it
- Change it
Long service leave calculator
What you've accrued, when you can take it, and what you'd be paid if you left, under your own state or territory's rules.
- Grow it
- Change it
Last day calculator
Enter the day you resign and the notice you owe, and get the exact date you finish.
- Change it
AI job exposure checker
See which parts of a role are exposed to AI and automation, task by task.
- Start it
- Change it
Templates
All templatesEvery resume, cover letter and question sheet is written around a specific role, so there's real content on the page before you start editing.
Single column and ATS-safe, with example bullets drawn from the tasks the role actually involves.
Accountant resumeA structured letter that already names what the role involves, so you begin with a draft in front of you.
Registered Nurse cover letterThe questions this role gets asked, and what each one is really testing, so you can prepare an answer you'd give out loud.
Electrician interview questions
Browse roles by industry
Every occupation on the site, grouped by the industry it sits in.
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- Automotive24 roles
- Business & Analytics38 roles
- Creative & Design73 roles
- Education & Training42 roles
- Energy & Resources25 roles
- Engineering50 roles
- Finance & Accounting64 roles
- Government & Community62 roles
- Healthcare & Nursing151 roles
- Hospitality & Tourism44 roles
- HR & Administration33 roles
- IT & Software41 roles
- Legal & Compliance34 roles
- Manufacturing & Production80 roles
- Marketing & Media38 roles
- Personal Services42 roles
- Retail & Sales57 roles
- Science & Environment49 roles
- Sport & Recreation38 roles
- Trades & Construction88 roles
- Transport & Logistics76 roles
How this site works
Independent
Nothing here is a sponsored listing, an affiliate course or a paid placement. If a role looks like a poor bet, the page says so.
Sourced and dated
Pay and demand figures come from Jobs and Skills Australia and the ABS. Every number carries the source it came from and when it was published, so you can tell how current it is.
Free to read
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