GSSC Careers Team

Welcome, everyone, to the 2021 Greater Shepparton Secondary College Careers team. While still quite new as a school we are really fortunate to have such an experienced and qualified team of Career Practitioners. We have a terrific website, www.gssccareers.com and a facebook page (Greater Shepparton Secondary College Careers) that will promote activities, training and positions available for current and ex-students.

CI Card Training

The Construction Induction card is the base level OHS qualification needed by students wanting work placement in construction trades (e.g., plumbing, electrical, building). All placements happening on our new school site for example, will require this certification.

Many Yr 10’s and 11’s (possibly Yr 12’s) will be wanting to do placements with these trades or on the new school site, unless you’ve done this training you won’t be able to. So, we are running two separate CI Card training days at GOTAFE’s Archer Street campus (beside GSSC’s McGuire campus) for any interested students on Friday 26th February as well as Friday 5th March (a student free day). These days will start before 9am and conclude at 3:30pm. Students will have to find their own way there.

Unfortunately, we have limited places and these will be filled on receipt of applications and payments. Application forms were distributed through your students Compass Newsfeed downloaded but can be found here:

Return completed forms to your Campus Careers staff at the same time as paying the $100 required at your campus main office. Places can be filled only with complete and paid applications. Students from across all campuses will be participating. All instruction and supervision will be provided by GOTAFE staff not GSSC staff.

Work Experience opportunities in the Defence Force

Great news! The Defence Work Experience Program (DWEP) has been approved to recommence in Victoria. Defence will be offering work experience options at various bases throughout the year for Army, Air Force and Navy, starting from late March 2021.

We encourage you, and interested students, to regularly keep an eye on their website as new placements will start appearing in coming weeks and months once dates are confirmed – www.defence.gov.au/workexperience . The starting point is to apply via the website then, if successful in being allocated a placement, the school will become involved in making arrangements.

The following Air Force placement dates at RAAF East Sale are confirmed and are starting to appear on the website:

29-30 March

31 March – 1 April

21-22 June

23-24 June

13-14 September

15-16 September

Applications close on 28 February for the March/April placement dates, so please encourage students interested in Air Force careers to get their applications in quickly.

All DWEP placements will be conducted in accordance with our COVIDSafe plan and are subject to relevant State/Territory COVID-19 Guidelines and Defence Restrictions. Please be aware that this may result in a placement being changed, postponed and/or cancelled at short notice.

Bradford – La Trobe Yr 12

GSSC is thrilled that once again our Yr 12 VCE students are being given the opportunity to participate in La Trobe’s Bradford program. La Trobe staff and students visit our senior campuses once every fortnight during participants private study sessions to meet with them and provide study support. There they run workshops to assist with building knowledge, skills and aspirations. It might be getting help with essay writing or better understanding how to manage their time or stress levels. Outside of these sessions they are connected to La Trobe staff and supporting students via MS Teams where they can chat about study questions. The program commences on both campuses next week. Students have been asked to register by completing applications and submitting to Susan Barr or Graeme Crosbie. If you’d like to know more about Bradford, Rikke Mazzella is the manager of the program for La Trobe. You can contact her via R.Mazzella@latrobe.edu.au or alternatively speak with your campus Career Practitioner.

FREE tuition opportunity for Senior Students

Representatives from the RESN (Regional Education Support Network) visited both senior campuses on Tuesday to explain their free tutoring program. They are a voluntary organisation made up of brillian former VCE students who provide timely online support to students in all subject areas.

They are a collective of tutors who’ve individually achieved outstanding VCE study scores and university results and they are available to provide our students feedback and answer questions. The service is completely free for GSSC VCE students. Students must register, if they haven’t already, online using their GSSC student email address. See attached flyer for further details. Our thanks go to RESN for their wonderful support of our students!

My Career Insights – A Great Year 9 Opportunity

As part of our College’s Career Pathways program, all Year 9 students will be participating in a two-part personal career discovery program called My Career Insights.

My Career Insights is designed to help students discover, develop and drive their career planning. It is a unique opportunity for them to learn more about their strengths and abilities, while exploring potential career options. This will give them the confidence to start taking control of their future.

Part 1: Discover - Students begin with the Morrisby profiling tool. The online discovery tool is a quiz designed to help students learn more about themselves, their values, preferences and skills that will give them a better understanding of where their strengths lie. These personal insights help open up a variety of possible career pathways, specifically tailored to who they are.

This will commence in the first week of March. Students will have an allocated session time.

Part 2: Develop - My Career Insights gives students an opportunity to talk one-on-one with an independent career counsellor about any initial ideas and thoughts. This discussion will help them to set realistic goals, and commence decision making to continue their career journey. Meetings will commence in Term 2. This meeting will be scheduled for 30 mins. Parents/Guardians are able to attend this meeting.

All activities related to this program will be conducted at Mooroopna Campus.

Attached is further information regarding this program which includes a Parent/Guardian permission form.

Parents/guardians who have not yet signed the permission form are asked to do so and have students return the form to their Learning Mentor by no later than Monday 15 February.

Please contact Tarsh Boyko with any queries natasha.boyko@education.vic.gov.au

Your GSSC Careers team

McGuire campus - Susan Barr

Mooroopna campus – Tarsh Boyko and Mary-ann Linehan. Mary-ann is the College Partnerships leader. This is a new position that emphasises how important we feel it is to build on our excellent links with partner organisations, employers, industry and other training organisations.

Wanganui campus – Graeme Crosbie, Ruth O’Bree & Simone Masters. Graeme is the Careers Leader, Ruth is the VCAL Leader and Simone is the Diversability Leader for GSSC.

Your GSSC Careers website

www.gssccareers.com

Graeme Crosbie

Careers Leader

Greater Shepparton SC

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Issue 1 · 12 Feb 2021

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