Pathways and Careers

Year 11 Careers Expo

On March 15, our Year 11 students participated in their annual “careers expo”, during which the following people showcased the ins and outs of a wide variety of career paths, as well as offering more general tips on how to approach their preparation for work and study in a constantly changing world:

• Gabby Ostrognay
• Andrew Sweatman
• Martin Hughes
• Ricky Johnstone
• Paul Dizon
• Penny Byrne
• Phoebe Yu
• Drew Teese
• Merryl Arnold
• Adam Brown
• Amy Crevola
• David Wong
• Vela Georgiev
• Scott Ceely
• Alex Nucci

You may recognise many of these names – they are parents, friends, staff contacts or family members from the broader NHS community. We thank them all sincerely for sharing their time, wisdom and insight so generously with our students. Without their involvement, events such as this cannot take place.

Kylie Witt

Career Practitioner

Work Experience Guidelines 2016

Year 10 students have started to organise their work experience placements. An outline of the procedure is attached here for your information.

Events & Workshops

Whilst all the tertiary institutions run open days later in the year, many of them also run special activities in the holidays. These shorter activities are often more targeted, and there are fewer visitors, so you can get more individualised information. We will promote them at school, but you should make a habit of actively looking for them as well.

A couple of examples are listed below:

• Experience La Trobe – Starting March 31 – sign up at http://www.latrobe.edu.au/experience/events/experience-la-trobe-events
• Meet Melbourne – events, seminars, holiday programs, starting in March – go to www.futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au  and sign up for their newsletters.
• Inside Monash Seminar Series – starting March 9 – information on all study areas, spread out through the year. March offerings include Business & Economics, Science, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences – more info at  www.monash.edu/inside-monash
• RMIT – runs workshops throughout the year – follow this link to see what kind of events take place, bearing in mind that some of them are during school hours - https://www.rmit.edu.au/events/all-events/tours/2016/march/
• VCE Careers Expo – May 5-8 - a massive big event at Caulfield Racecourse, with displays and seminars. You can download a program below. This is a good place to get lots of information in one hit, after which you can narrow down your search.