Careers Corner

Last week we took the senior cohort of VCE students to the annual VCE & Careers Expo in Melbourne. This excursion is to assist our VCE students to shape their career pathways and explore the options for when they leave Bayside Christian College at the end of year 12.

There was a large selection of universities, tertiary institutions and colleges represented for students to visit. They could collect the course guides for 2025 and speak to the staff about general information. Other exhibitors include Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC), Australian Defence Force, Victoria Police, Ambulance Vic, Gap year options and Department of Education with their new VCE campaign “Many Talents, One VCE”.

Students were also able to attend 30-45 minute seminars on various topics relevant for VCE Students. This year’s choice of seminars in our time slot were:

Exam Preparation: VCE Unit 3 & 4 English, Psychology, Health & Human, and Chemistry
VTAC - Everything you need to know about applying for courses
University of Melbourne - Study and student life
Latrobe - Aspire Early entry programs
JMC - Making a career in the creative industries

Student feedback was positive with the majority of students finding the Expo beneficial. Unfortunately, this year there wasn’t a free tote bag available at the entrance which meant students had to carry around the course guides they had collected. Despite this, the majority of students walked through the exhibitor stands stopping at any of interest with some attending relevant seminars.

Work Experience - Optional

I would like to confirm that we will be running an additional work experience week in the third week of the mid year break. This work experience week is open to all year 9 to 12 students. If any students are interested in participating in work experience during this time, please contact Ms Smith via email (michelle.smith@baysidecc.vic.edu.au) as soon as possible.

Forms will need to be returned by Monday 27th May (no extensions will be granted).

Optional Work Experience dates: Monday 15th - Friday 19th July

Please note, you must be 15 years of age by the 15th of July.

VTAC - CourseSearch

VTAC CourseSearch is currently displaying the mid year intake course information. Students can still access the 2024 intake course information by clicking on the CourseSearch archives hyperlink. Full course information for 2025 intake will be published in July.

Victoria Police - upcoming events

If students are interested in exploring careers with Victoria Police, they have several information events in May and June.

Wednesday 15th May - Victoria Police Life at the Academy (Online Webinar) An online information session for members of the community who are interested in finding out more about life at the Victoria Police Academy

Tuesday 21st May - Victoria Police Careers Information Session (Knox Police Station) An exclusive information session for members of Knox and surrounding communities who are interested in a career with Victoria Police

Tuesday 11th June

Become a Police Custody Officer (Online Information Session) An online information session for members of the community who are interested in a career as a Police Custody Officer

Thursday 13th June - Victoria Police School Leavers career Information Session (Victoria Police Centre) An exclusive session for school leavers who are interested in starting their with Victoria Police.

Link to the Victoria Police Events (for bookings):

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/victoria-police-3130253458#events

Term 2:

Year 12 Individual Student Meetings - Post BCC intentions (continuing from Term 1)
Year 10 - very late deadline for Work Experience arrangement forms (Monday 13th May-Homegroup)
Year 10 - 2024 Work Experience week (Monday 24th - 28th June)

Bookings

Students are welcome to contact Ms Smith at any time to make a booking to discuss future study options, career possibilities or just for someone to bounce your aspiration ideas off.

Kindly note, my work days have changed. Please plan ahead, as I am not always available when you need me to be.

My Calendly bookings are on Monday and Thursday only. Bookings can be made outside of these days by arrangement only.

Ms Michelle Smith can be contacted in the following ways:

Location: N12 (East end of N-Block)

Email: michelle.smith@baysidecc.vic.edu.au

Booking: www.calendly.com/michelle-smith-careers (Mondays and Thursdays)

Michelle Smith, Careers Coordinator