Careers Experience
Year 10
Doncaster Secondary College 
For the last week of Term 2 our Year 10 students have been busy participating in our Careers Experience program.
Being involved in work experience in one form or another is an invaluable insight into the world of work, regardless of the type of work or the degree of active participation.
This year we have 219 Year 10 students participating in the Career Experience programme and across a diverse range of industries. Industries like, Building and Construction, Aged Care, Film and Television, Engineering, Education, Architecture, Interior design, Dog Grooming, Dentistry, Allied Health Sport and Fitness, and Landscaping just to name a few!
We have 36 Year 10 students currently on the Central Australia camp however they went on their careers experience the week prior.
We have received great feedback from employers and our students have been enthusiastic about their individual experiences. Our students have enjoyed learning many important life and work skills that will put them in good stead for their future pathways, regardless of if they are participating in an industry that they are interested in or not.
Participating in Career Experience teaches students skills, such as Independence, Punctuality, Reliability, Problem solving and Resilience. All very important skills to learn before our students are in the real World of Work!
Donna McKinlay
Careers Department
Here are a few student stories of the week so far...
Gia and Anastasia have been comforting children and seeing a therapy dog in action at Creative Play Early Learning Centre.
At Doncaster Primary School, Lucas is a teacher's aid in Grade 2 and Haris has been assisting with training as a PE teacher.
Elias has been maintaining equipment and learning about market research at Hammer's Gym in Nunawading.
I went to work experience at the Victorian Heart Hospital, I got asked to participate in many different tasks including watching open heart surgery, 3 DCR procedures and I listened to a patients heart murmur, I was also taught how to read Echocardiograms, ECG’s, chest X-rays, MRI’s and CT scans.
This experience let me understand what the life of a doctor and surgeon is like and it has shown me all the possibilities there are in medicine, I was particularly interested in the anesthesiologist and what he was doing during the DCR procedures and the open heart surgery.
- Tayla M.
