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.

Visit from Alumni, Jessica Hogan

Jessica Hogan visited HPSC on Tuesday 10th March to chat to current Year 12 students planning to sit the UCAT aptitude test. Jessica shared her UCAT experience and gave our students study advice and valuable tips. Jessica is studying Biomedical Science at Monash and plans to continue into the field of medicine. We wish Jessica the best in her future studies!

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.

Open Days & Info Sessions

Many of these events have been either cancelled or postponed. Please check the universities website for the most current event information.

Cancelled Events

17, 19 & 24 March | Victoria University Information Sessions
30 March – 3 April | La Trobe Campus Talk and Tours, Bendigo
1 – 9 April | ATAR Notes VCE Lectures – now being streamed online
1, 2, 7, 8 & 9 April | Deakin Step on Campus
3 April | La Trobe Experience Clever, Melbourne
4 April | University of Melbourne – A Day at Melbourne
4 April | Endeavour College of Natural Health Open Day – now a virtual open day on 22 April
16 April | Meet University of Melbourne in Ballarat
17 April | University of Melbourne Interstate Student and Family Information Day
17 – 18 April | Victorian Careers Show
21 April | Deakin Doctor of Medicine Course Information Session
30 April – 3 May | VCE Careers Expo
28 May | Deakin Criminology Course Information Session

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

Top 5 Online Course Providers

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/

HPSC Newshamper

Hampton Park Secondary College is rich in our diversity, and by empowering and engaging student we remain whole hearted in our pursuit of excellence.

Issue 3 · 23 Mar 2020

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