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Career News for Term Three Issue 6 includes:

• Next Open Days 2019
• Work Experience
• 100 Jobs of the Future Report
• REMINDERS:
• VCA - Girls Do Jazz 2019 Workshops
• Future Park Design Ideas Competition (Work Experience Prize)
• Open Days 2019
• Parent and Caregivers Guide to University
• Year 10 VTAC Guide 2019
• Important Year 12 information is now on the next page
• Please feel free to make an appointment

Useful Links: Australian Jobs 2019

Next Open Days 2019

Coming up:

AIM (Institute of Music) - Saturday 27 July

Swinburne University    - Sunday 28 July

​​William Angliss                  - Saturday 3 August

Latrobe University          - Sunday 4 August

Monash (Clayton)            - Sunday 4 August

RMIT (Bundoora)             - Sunday 4 August

Photographic Studies    - Sunday 4 August

Open Days are a great time to visit an institution when it’s at its best. Everyone is there – academics, lecturers, current students and information officers. More importantly, you can talk with academics, lecturers and current students about what certain courses are actually like and what is required to get into them. For other dates and times please download a copy of the 2019 Tertiary Open Days below.

WORK EXPERIENCE 

OPPORTUNITIES 2020

Work Experience: Monash Biomedicine Round 3

Opens 12 August - Closes 23 August

Work Experience: National Gallery of Victoria

Opens May - Closes 1 October

Download Latest Work Experience Resource Book

Download the Work Arrangement Form

100 Jobs of the Future Report

"In this report, the 100 jobs of the future are organised by broad category of application, such as ‘people jobs’, ‘hands on jobs’ and ‘data jobs’. This is to provide a simple scaffold to help people to browse among roles that may be of interest to them. Some jobs may fall into multiple broad categories, particularly those that involve use of digital technologies, but they are only represented once here to eliminate redundancy...."

Read the latest Deakin University, Griffith University and Ford report called "100 Jobs of the Future" at: 

https://100jobsofthefuture.com/report/jobs/. There is also a You Tube video at: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p27pFvQdm-M promoting the report.

There are also some other great resources to read on this website.

REMINDERS

VCA - Girls Do Jazz 2019 Workshops

Girls Do Jazz 2019 workshops aim to address the gender imbalance in jazz music by giving young students an opportunity to hear, interact, converse and perform with women who are following professional pathways in jazz and improvised music. Workshop sessions will incorporate a repertoire of blues, jazz standards, modal playing, original tunes and free improvisation. Students will learn about improvised music, foster relationships with emerging and established musicians and engage with a like-minded creative community. They will also develop their musical skills and career path through informal performances, rehearsals and discussions. This course is suitable for 15-20 year-old, female and gender-non-conforming student instrumentalists with an interest in jazz and improvisation and those intending to audition for Jazz and Improvisation at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at Melbourne in the future.

When: 11 August, 8 September, 13 October, 10 November and 8 December (at the Jazzlab as part of the Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival) Cost: $525

For more information and to register visit: https://finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/study-with-us/short-courses/girls-do-jazz-2019

Future Park Design Ideas Competition: New Public Space for Melbourne

Considered the fourth fastest growing city in the OECD, Melbourne is expected to eclipse Sydney as Australia’s largest city by 2050. This population growth and densification raises questions over the capacity of our existing parks to meet the needs of today’s contemporary and bourgeoning city. The Future Park Design Ideas Competition encourages entrants to envision new public spaces for modern Melbourne. Where should this new public open space be located, how should it be configured and what is its role?

Entries close: 1 August 2019

For more information and to register visit: https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/be150/competitions/futurepark

Parent and Caregivers Guide to University

This one is courtesy of Deakin but you can apply most of the information to any institution. Parents and caregivers play an important role in providing guidance, information and support to their child as they plan their future and consider their further study options. It can be hard to know the best way to offer support to your child when it comes to choosing a course of study and a university. Deakin has put together some great tips on how to help your child stay focused and start developing the skills needed for university. I hope you find it helpful.

Year 10 VTAC Guide

As a Year 10 student about to choose your Years 11 and 12 study program, it can all seem a little overwhelming. But if you break it down into steps, it becomes more manageable. This guide has some great activities and resources to help you with some of the next steps which will be about subject selection. Some of these activities you may have participated in as part of our Careers Elective but it doesn't hurt to take another look at them. Once you have created a plan it is time to make an appointment to meet me and discuss some of your options so you are well and truly prepared when it comes to selecting the right subjects.

Remember my quote.. "Start with the D.R.E.A.M."

Note: A hard copy is now available from the Careers Hub in The Cottage.

Important Year 12 Information

Please see the following page I have dedicated to all Year 12 Careers information.

Making An Appointment

You can find me in the Careers Hub office downstairs in The Cottage. Please use this link on the Preshil Careers website to make an appointment because it syncs to my calendar to avoid clashes. If you have questions or concerns please email me anytime at bronte.howell@preshil.vic.edu.au

Special Thanks

Thanks to Jacky Burton from the Yarra Career Practitioners Group and Compass Career News who tirelessly each year puts together a lot of the one-sheet information guides that help us collate tertiary course information into the one place for students to easily access.

References:

• Stock Images: pixabay.com
• Career Tools Newsletter