Pathways
Year 10 Careers quizzes and pathways interviews
Year 10 students will very soon be sent a Career Tools link to their school email address requesting they complete some quick and easy career-based quizzes: Career Co Pilot, Personality Quiz and Career Action Plan. Students will need to follow the link, sign up using their school email, and create a password in order to complete the quizzes.
The Career tools quizzes compliment the Year 9 Morrisby assessment designed to identify student’s interests, strengths, skills and individual personality code guiding career conversations for VCE, subject planning, goal setting through career action plans and post-secondary pathways.
Each student will have an individual 30-minute discussion with an experienced Pathways career practitioner during class time. Please encourage your child to complete the Career Tools quizzes once they receive the email.
Work Experience Opportunity
Senior students from Years 10, 11 and 12 interested in STEM careers are encouraged to check out the Swinburne University of Technology work experience opportunities in 3 key areas. Work Experience | Swinburne
Swinburne are offering senior students the opportunity to apply for 3 key areas of STEM. All placements are undertaken for one week providing young people the opportunity to work with Swinburne academics and professional staff to develop or increase:
employability skills
possible career options
understand employers' expectations
build self-understanding, maturity, independence and self-confidence.
Astronomy and astrophysics > open now and close on 6th March. Work Experience held on different dates in April, July, September.
Engineering and Technical skills > applications open 1st May and close 1st June. Work Experience commences Mon 22nd June until Friday 26th June
Technical Skills in Laboratory Management > applications open now and close 20th February. Work Experience commence: Monday 29th June to Friday 3rd July or Monday 6th to Friday 10th July
Defence Force Work Experience Program
The Defence Work Experience Program provides secondary students from Years 10-12 with the opportunity to experience a wide range of careers available in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the Australian Public Service (APS). The program is offering a variety of placements in Victoria. For more information, please visit the Defence Work Experience Program Job List website. Please remember to check the Jobs List website regularly for newly advertised placements.
Work Experience
Work experience participation is optional at VSC, however we strongly encourage all students aged 15yrs+ to get involved in this very beneficial and rewarding program. Students can undertake Work Experience every year until they graduate VSC.
Work experience provides young people with a taste of the real world of work and a clearer understanding of a particular industry, field or business they may be interested in pursuing in the future. It assists in career discovery and exploration, goal setting and decision making whilst preparing students for VCE or VCAL, future tertiary studies, apprenticeship/traineeships or full-time work.
There are no designated time frames for students to complete placements as we believe a flexible delivery arrangement provides students with a better opportunity to meet the availability and operational time frames of businesses and industries within the community. This also means we are not competing with other local schools which can limit student’s placement opportunities.
Placement dates are arranged through consultation and negotiation between the employer, school and student to maximise the experience. However, if your young person is not going on the Central Australia to Darwin trip, they may want to consider the last week of Term 3 as the perfect opportunity to undertake work experience.
Drop into Pathways to discuss further and collect the ‘Preparing for the Workplace’ pack.
Work Experience in the Australian Defence Force (ADF)?
Interested work experience through the Defence Force? The Defence Work Experience Program provides you people interested in careers in Defence the opportunity to sample life in Defence and learn more about the ADF. Activities are hands on and interactive to assist students in making informed career decisions. Participants must be 15yrs or over at the time of placement. Click on the link to see the current opportunities.
Defence Work Experience Program Jobs List.
Pathways Website – www.vscpathways.com
Did you know VSC has its own careers website? It’s a ‘One Stop Shop’ for everything you need to assist with Career planning, research, information and help, available 24 hours a day. Please see attached the Term 1 Career Tools Newsletter with lots of informative reading. To access the website please click on the link vscpathways.com or go to the VSC website and click on the Pathways tab.
Features:
Latest news and events
Senior school options
Work experience and OH&S in the workplace
VET – Vocational Education and Training
University Admissions requirements through VTAC
Find what careers suits you & course discovery
Interactive Career bullseyes
Gap Year
Resume creation & finding a job
Youth allowance and money matters
Informative career videos
Plus lots, lots more to help individual career development
Career Development is the lifelong process of managing life, learning and work (paid and unpaid) over our lifespan. The ability to make informed decisions, manage and transition through change for a personally determined future.
Young people build their career development through self-awareness; understanding how they make decisions and how these decisions impact future aspirations through exploration, identifying interests, values and preferred learning styles through careers exploration activities such as Morrisby in Year 9 and Careers Tools in Year 10. The ability to research a wide range of career options helping them to select subjects they may enjoy learning whilst aligning to tertiary course pre-requisite requirements in the future or apprenticeship/traineeship requirements and work.
Career development is further enhanced by juggling the expectations and requirements of school with extra-curricular activities like sport and family responsibilities, part-time work, community involvement and social interests.
To further assist your Career Development please visit vscpathways.com an easy-to-use interface with links to a multitude of career resources for both Students and Parents. We encourage all VSC students and their families to explore the Pathways website to assist in making positively informed decisions about their future.