Careers
Careers Team
Please feel free to drop in to chat to the Careers / Pathway team and if you would like more information about career options, please call 03 8795 9400 and ask for the Careers Team.
Stuck at home?
You might think that’s not as easy as it sounds if you’re stuck at home, but there are loads of resources already out there, with more popping up every day.
Here are some of our top suggestions:
Get “out” without leaving your house
- Take a virtual tour of 12 of the best museums around the world
- Trawl throughAustralia’s Natural History collections
- Explore the world
- Take part in live streaming ballet classes available to all
- Listen to podcasts – they’re free and there are thousands out there to choose from. Here are some lists to scroll through and inspire you:
The 40 Best Educational Podcasts in 2020
Top 10 Career Podcasts To Listen to This Year (2019)
Careers News!
Our Hampton Park Careers Newsletter has lots of information on Open Days and Industry Events – CLICK HERE! for the latest newsletter!
Headstart
Head Start is a program designed to help students begin an apprenticeship or traineeship whilst still at school.
The program recognises that everyone learns differently, has different interests and career goals.
Head Start lets you start learning skills for an apprenticeship or traineeship early – while still making sure that you get the real life knowledge that employers need by completing your VCE or VCAL.
When you finish school, you’ll have your VCE or VCAL as well as having finished (or be close to finishing) your training - giving you a head start on everyone else. You can choose from apprenticeships and traineeships in key industries such as building, construction, community services and health, business and primary industries. See Mr Evans in the Careers Office for further information.
Planning to study Dentistry or Medicine?
UCAT Registrations have opened! Students who are planning to apply to Medicine, Dentistry and Clinical Science degree programmes commencing in 2021 at these Universities in Australia and New Zealand must sit the UCAT ANZ test in the month of July 2020. Note: the registrations close 11th May 2020. See Lisa in the Careers Office for further information.
Looking for a part time job?
You will find job search tips and much more under the Career Tools website on the HPSC website. Look under STUDENTS tab/scroll down to CAREERS & PATHWAYS and ‘click here to go to the HP Careers Website’ Under the first tab IMPORTANT INFO scroll down to YOUTH CENTRAL. Here you will find an abundance of information on looking for part time work.
How old do I need to be? Despite popular opinion, 14 years and 9 months is not the minimum age of employment – to be employed without a permit, a child must be 15 years.
Under the Child Employment Act 2003, children can be employed for a maximum of 3 hours per day and 12 hours per week during school term and a maximum of 6 hours per day and 30 hours per week during school holidays. These hours are inclusive of rest breaks.
Click here for more information
https://www.business.vic.gov.au/hiring-and-managing-staff/employing-children/laws-and-act
Further Learning
If you’re stuck at home but don’t want to fall behind on your learning, or are just looking for something different than watching Netflix all day, there are heaps of online providers that offer courses and education resources.
You can study almost any subject you can think of, and many of them are free as well.
Here are some of our top picks:
- edX – https://www.edx.org/
- TED-Ed – https://ed.ted.com/lessons
- FutureLearn – https://www.futurelearn.com/
- Open Learning – https://www.open.edu/openlearn/
- Coursera – https://www.coursera.org/