Career Planning at The King's College
Career Planning is a lifelong process of self-discovery and aligning our interests with a personal sense of purpose and fulfillment through work.
There are significant studies that show that our well-being increases when we participate in a job or endeavour that we enjoy.
To support students, their families and the broader community in the development of career learning and career development, The King's College has appointed a Careers and VET Coordinator who is registered with the Career Industry Council of Australia.
The role of the Careers and VET Coordinator involves :
- Addressing the needs of individual students.
- High-quality career education and learning.
- Access to a qualified career practitioner for one-on-one appointments with students and their families.
- Accurate, up-to-date and unbiased career pathway and labour market information.
- Assisting students to build work capabilities and transferable skills.
- Linking curriculum learning to careers.
- Meaningful encounters with employers and workplaces.
- Individual Career Pathway planning.
- Portfolio development.
- Building capacity of parents, carers and other key influencers.
The Careers and VET Coordinator supports students with a wide range of career development activities and support.
- Career planning and decision-making.
- Completion of interest profiling and 'matched' careers.
- Analysing your work-related skills, interests, strengths and abilities.
- Researching and selecting learning and training options, including Universities (local, interstate, and international) and Training Providers (private and State).
- Investigating the labour market.
- Job seeking, Resume writing and addressing selection criteria
- Course selection.
- Goal setting / Personal Planning
- Mentoring
- Scholarship applications
I don't know what I want to do
This is a statement I hear a LOT; it's very common. First of all, don't panic! There are lots of resources and information available to you. As a starting point, I would say it's OK not to know what you want to do, BUT you need to do some work to find out what you might be interested in. Only you can do that, by exploring who you are as a person, what you love to do and how you might be able to do more of it.
Explore what's important to you
A great starting point is to take some career quizzes. These are questionnaires that will ask you information about your interests, values (what is more important, money or doing something you love), Work environments (do you love indoors or outdoors, office jobs, or people jobs, etc.) and then make some recommendations about potential jobs of interests. Two great sites to help you do this are :
- Career Clusters | This groups people into different clusters of work. For example are you a "carer" type personality, or more of a hands-on "Maker" type personality. Click on the quiz to find out which one you might be.
- MyFuture | Every West Australian school student has access to a free account. Click on the links to register and then click on "My Profile" to access the quizzes and get access to some Suggested Occupations
Appointments
Please email Mrs Byrnes if you would like to make an appointment at