Careers

Year 10 Students

During the second half of this term, Careers in lessons have been delivered to the Year 10 students.  Many thanks to the Life Skills staff for facilitating these classes and for their enthusiastic support of the Aitken Careers program.

Almost all students have now completed their Morrisby profile and we hope this has generated some interesting and useful discussions. 

Year 10 students will receive a copy of the 2024 VCE / VCE VM Handbook before the holidays and will therefore be aware of the programs and provisional subject offerings for their next two years at Aitken.  The VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) and the VCE VM (Victorian Certificate of Education Vocational Major) will be the two program options to choose between for 2024 Aitken Year 11 students.  In addition to the information provided in Life Skills classes, an Information Night for parents and students for the two programs will be held via Zoom on Wednesday 12 July.  

The decisions being made by Year 10 students during Term 3 are important but there is lots of assistance available to them along the way.  Careers staff are looking forward to working again with the students next term and getting to know them a little better during their 30 minute one-on-one consultations with Careers staff in B21.  Please get in touch if you have any queries or concerns.

Year 11 and 12 Students

Year 12 students continue to undertake their career and course research as they contemplate their direction at the end of 2023.

The Term 2 holidays are a great opportunity to give some thought about what 2024 and beyond might look like.  Many of the unis and TAFEs are providing on-campus school holiday ‘experience’ programs or tours (advertised in the Careers newsletters) to provide information to students (and their parents) about courses and about their institution.  Students should consider attending those they deem relevant.  We expect, also, to soon have available the Calendar of Open Day dates for July/August of Term 3 which will be emailed to Brookhill students.  Try to keep Sundays available for attending these events.  

Year 12 Tertiary Information and Exploration excursion to La Trobe University

On Tuesday 30 May the Year 12 students headed to La Trobe University to attend a day of activities to learn about future tertiary options. Students had the opportunity to explore a university campus and get a feel for the size and scope of activities that take place at a university.  This was an important excursion for students considering further study at university next year or in the future. It was a great opportunity for students to learn more about the options available to them post secondary school as they were able to chat with current students (La Trobe ambassadors), specialist staff, hear more about the Aspire program and attend seminars and workshops.  It was also an opportunity to learn about how to get the most out of attendance at an Open Day.  Our students were excited to be exploring options beyond Aitken and enthusiastic about the opportunity to think about their transition from school and onto the next phase of their lives. 

Even for students not considering La Trobe for their future study, there were valuable lessons to be learned about attending university in general and undertaking course and institution research.  The excursion aims to give students the confidence to undertake their own careers and course research, attend Open Days and consider all their options.

For some students the excursion confirmed their interest in becoming a future student at La Trobe and for others it opened up some possibilities they had not previously considered.  Students were able to choose two of eight workshops to attend: Archaeology, Business, Law/Criminology, Health Sciences (Podiatry), Wildlife Sanctuary tour (Animal Science), Media and Communications, Sports Science Stadium tour, and Microbiology, so a broad range of interests were catered for.  There was much excited chatter and enthusiastic discussions on the buses as we returned to the College.  The students were a credit to the College and the supervising staff were terrific.  We are very appreciative of those staff who juggled their commitments at the College so the students could take part in this experience: Mr Salloum, Ms Jarvis-Dymond, Mr Perri, Mrs Monos, Mr Inturrisi and Mr Gunarathna.

Career News 8

Career News Issue 8 is now available and includes information about:

• Casual work opportunities at Carl's Jr
• 'A Day at Melbourne' in the Term 2 holidays
• Why Study Science at FedUni?
• Studying Accounting and Business Information Technology (Professional) at Swinburne University
• Studying Exercise Science / Nutrition Science at ACU
• A Sports degree Summit at Holmesglen
• Computer Science degrees in Victoria
• Information Technology degrees in Victoria
• Foundation Studies at ACU
• A Snapshot of Melbourne Polytechnic
• School holiday workshops at Collarts
• A new Climate Change major at La Trobe University
• Discover ACU in the Term 2 holidays
• School holiday workshops in Art & Design at Monash University
• School holiday campus tours at RMIT
• Four new Commerce degrees at ACU
• A Career in the Australian Border Force
• Criminology and Paralegal degrees in Victoria

and much more.

Careers Newsletter on My Aitken

Career News is written and published fortnightly and is available via My Aitken / Resources / School Life / Aitken News / Careers Newsletter / Careers Newsletters – 2023 Editions: https://myaitken.fireflycloud.net.au/aitken-news/careers-newsletter-1/careers-newsletters---2023-editions 

Contact Details

Please contact us via email:  cborg@aitkencollege.edu.au and / or rgibbs@aitkencollege.edu.au.   

Mrs Clare Borg & Ms Rae Gibbs

Careers Counsellors