Careers & Pathways
The best way to predict the future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln
Welcome Back to 2022!
Welcome to the Cranbourne East Secondary College Careers Newsletter.
Our College takes pride in its commitment to support every senior student in pursuing a meaningful and appropriate pathway destination.
Our Senior program is diverse and offers students the opportunity to complete one or more of the following: The VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education), VCAL (Certificate of Applied Learning) and VET (Vocational Education & Training). The correct combination of these certificates will enable our students to either higher or further education or employment or training.
Students' choices are critical to their enjoyment of study and their success, leading to pathways to higher education, training or employment. This publication is intended to assist students in making those choices. We encourage students to choose the pathway and subjects aligned to their interests and abilities.
We aim to help you:
- Understand what course and career information and resources are out there – so you can explore options and build your knowledge base
- Learn more about yourself and the world of work – so that you can make decisions about courses and career pathways that are best for you
Career Development is a vital element of the lifecycle as it assists people to navigate their way through education and training into employment and fulfilling working lives. Career development and guidance programs help people to:
- explore their career potential through self-awareness activities
- research a wide range of career options
- understand how they make decisions and how these decisions impact have on their future aspirations
- develop their career management skills to be well prepared to face the challenges of a changing world.
The Careers Team publish a weekly newsletter and an active Careers Facebook page. We endeavour to interview every student in Years 9, 10, 11 & 12 as part of our Careers Action Plan. Please feel free to contact the Careers Team regarding your student's pathways.
MEET THE CAREERS TEAM
Career Education and Development at Cranbourne East Secondary College is supported by a qualified team of professional Career Practitioners. We are advertising for a VET Coordinator; students will need to see Nancy in the meantime.
Students from Years 7 – 12 are provided with up to date information and career development support in various ways.
Nancy Huez-O'Rourke
Careers & Pathways Leader
Jennelle Little
Careers Practitioner & SWL Coordinator
Cassandra Middleton
Careers Practitioner & Administrative Assistant
What the Careers Resource Centre can assist you with?
| Apprenticeships Information | Résumé Writing Skills |
| Cadetships & Traineeships | SATs |
| Career Expos | Scholarship Opportunities |
| Careers Testing - Morrisby Profile | Subject Selection Counselling |
| GAP Year Opportunities | TAFE Courses & Programs |
| Individual Interviews | Tertiary Application Process - Interstate |
| International Study | University Courses & Programs |
| Interstate Universities | University Extension Studies |
| Interview Skills | VCAA Information |
| Open Days | VET in Schools |
| Overseas Exchange Programs | VTAC Process |
| Part-time & Casual Job Opportunities | Weekly Career News Updates |
Number (TFN)
Any student will need at tax file number if he/she starts work (part-time and full-time) and all students planning on a tertiary education require one when they start.
Importantly, current Year 12 students are reminded that they cannot enrol in a CSP (Commonwealth Support Place) course at university without a Tax File Number, so it is worthwhile getting an application submitted early!
Students must apply for a TFN online and have their identity verified through an interview at a participating Australia Post office.
To apply and also to find out about participating Post Offices, visit TFN Application
In the news...
What drives you?
Finding our motivation
What drives you? We're all motivated by different things. We can narrow down our potential options for a future career by finding what drives us.
What do Youth Workers do? Help young people realise their potential. Youth Workers assist and guide young people facing various problems, including social, educational, welfare, behavioural, and financial issues.
What do Radiographers do? Radiographers are medical professionals who use various technologies to produce high-quality medical images. They use various machines and techniques, including x-rays, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and Computed Tomography (CT) scans.
How do you want to spend your time?
There is only so much time a week to fill in with all the things we enjoy. Thinking about how you want to spend your time can help you work out what matters most, so you know where to focus your attention.
Monash Health Work Experience Program
The Monash Health Work Experience Program provides secondary students with the opportunity to gain insight into Monash Health as an organisation and gain experience in the healthcare industry.The program is open to year 10 to 12 students who, as a part of their school curriculum, are required to undertake work experience for a period of one week (five consecutive working days). Students are placed within departments to observe and learn. Students are able to participate in activities as appropriate according to the training or expertise they require.Departments offering the work experience program include
- Administration
- Breast Screen
- Children’s ward
- Digital Health
- Engineering
- Health Promotion
- Maternity
- Nursing
- Paediatric Infectious Diseases
- Speech Pathology
Placements will only be allocated between May 2022 through to December 2022.
See Jennelle Little in Red Careers if you are interested.
https://monashhealth.org/careers/work-experience/
Goal Setting
Stuck for ideas
It may not be New Year’s Eve but that’s not the only time you can set goals and resolutions, but sometimes settling on your goals can be the hardest part and could stop you from getting started. If you’re still undecided about what goals can look like, we’ve put together some goal setting ideas that might inspire you.
Short-term goals for 2022
These might be the easiest goals to decide on. If there’s something you’ve always wanted to do, or try, or achieve why not make 2022 the year that you give it a go.
They don’t have to be supercool or on trend either, they can be anything that’s important to you.
- Get homework and assignments done on time
- Research options after high school – universities, degrees, alternative pathways including TAFE, private colleges, apprenticeships and traineeships
- Study for driver’s license, book lessons & schedule practise time
- Get healthy – monitor sleep, make better food choices, exercise more (& consistently), spend more time outdoors
- Spend more quality time with family and friends
- Invest in relationships that make you feel good
- Get an “A” in your favourite subject at school
- Research resume writing or create your resume
- Improve your soft skills
- Get a part-time job
- Volunteer
- Contribute more at home
It’s all about YOU
The ideas we’ve listed are pretty generic, they’re just to inspire you to think about what your goals could be.
So have a think about what you love, what makes you happy and the kind of life you’d like to end up living and go from there. There is no right or wrong.