Careers
Wanganui Park Career News
9th February, 2017
Events coming up
Mon 20th March – Year 10 Work Experience Week
Wanganui Careers website
We have a great new Careers portal designed for both students and parents. I’d really encourage you to bookmark the page on your family or personal computer, we will be doing the same with all the students.
Here you will find
- calendar of career events
- parent menu of useful links
- secure student login where they can explore career interests, templates to write resume’s & cover letters, update their career action plan and much more. Everything they do in this area is saved for them so they can access and modify it later
- links to getting tax file numbers, lodging your first tax return, job vacancies, course searching, defence forces, police careers, youth allowance, gap year and volunteering opportunities etc. etc.
Work Placements
The Department of Education and Training conducts two different kinds of work placement experiences. Work Experience and Structured Workplace Learning (SWL). Students completing a VET or a VCAL course can do SWL. All others complete Work Experience (e.g. Year 10 students and VCE students not doing a VET). The biggest difference between these is that students doing SWL are doing formal training related to their work placement and as such this allows the student to work with a higher level of skill expectation. Both of these kinds of experiences have very strict guidelines that allow them to be covered by multi-million dollar insurance contracts. As such it’s important that students and parents understand that no work experiences can be made with out proper signed approval of the Principal on a workplace arrangement form. For further information contact Graeme Crosbie the College Careers Adviser.
Wanganui Careers Facebook page
Find ‘Wanganui Park Secondary College Careers’ and like the page. Then you will receive updates about events, vacancies and information relevant to you and your family that are related to careers and the world of work
Construction Induction card
In any of the Construction related fields (building, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, bricklaying, painting, concreting etc.) all people on site, including students on work experience, have to possess a CI Card (Construction Induction OH & S cert.).
The CI Card will cost $90 to complete and will be conducted at the school on Wednesday 15th March. If your child wishes to complete this they must collect the paperwork from Mr Crosbie in the SLC and return it by the end of February.
Australian Defence Force Information
- Defence Jobs YouTube Channel: Watch videos about the different roles available in the Army, Navy and Air Force here- http://bit.ly/1QoBraH
- Work experience: The Defence Force provides work experience opportunities across Australia. To search for upcoming work experience placements and to bookmark the page, go to http://bit.ly/1MGymwI
- Personalised Jobs Finder: Just enter your personal details into the online form and the interactive tool will suggest roles you may be suited to - http://bit.ly/2fsxFSJ
- Diagnose patients using your mobile phone: Learn about health careers in the Defence Force by downloading the free Mobile Medic app to x-ray, diagnose and treat several medical emergencies, http://bit.ly/2eDmZ2p
Tax File Number
Everyone needs a TFN (Tax File Number) particularly when you start work. If you don’t have a TFN then half your wages could be taken in tax! You don’t want that to happen!
Unfortunately you can no longer apply through these through the school (this changed last year), you apply for your TFN online & then verify your application by visiting Australia Post.
To find out more go to the school’s new career website (www.wanganuiparkcareers.com) and click on the ‘Important Information’ link OR follow this link http://www.wanganuiparkcareers.com/?page=tfn
Student email addresses
Much of the communication between teachers, the school and students relies on email access
Each student is allocated a school email account that is theirstudentnumber@wanganui.psc.vic.edu.au
We are encouraging the students to enter their school email account settings into the phone/computer so they can readily access these. If your child needs help with this get them to see Wanganui’s IT support team or access instructions from the college facebook page
Graeme Crosbie