Pathways & Careers
For Year 12 Students & Parents
Next Steps for Yr 12. Please read the attachment.
New myNHS Careers page
The careers section of myNHS has been tidied up, so please don’t forget to check in regularly for careers news and tips. It remains a work in progress, so any useful feedback will be gratefully received. Year 12 students in particular are encouraged to look at the material lodged there that will help them with the VTAC Change of Preference process in December and January.
Tradies’ BBQ & RIJI Celebration
On Wednesday, October 28, we held our first ever “Tradies’ BBQ” at NHS. Although we would have welcomed a few more guests, those who were able to make it were treated to some excellent first-hand advice from five very experienced tradespeople. Sincere thanks to James, Phillip, Martin, Michael and Bryon, who provided us with valuable insight into life as a builder, landscaper or plasterer. Our guests all arrived in their current career via different pathways. One worked his way from apprentice to business owner, and now employs the people who wield the tools. One took the uni pathway to life as an architect, then gravitated to the more practical side of the building industry, before starting his own building and construction business. Another tried a number of other careers and a stint at uni, before he took on the challenge of a mature age apprenticeship. Despite their very different journeys, the common thread in each of their stories was the variety of work and working environments available to them in this industry – these days, tradespeople can move very comfortably between a more physically demanding working environment and an office-based managerial one, or they can combine the two. We hope to run another of these events next year, so look out for it in the 2016 calendar.
This year, we also recognised the efforts of our small RIJI team as part of the BBQ. Six of our Year 10 students completed all components of the RIJI (Real Industry Jobs Interviews) Program, an initiative supported jointly by the Yarra, Darebin and Moreland councils in an attempt to provide young people with improved job-seeking skills.
Congratulations to Nick Mc Grath, Phoebe Hennessy, Aubrie Hall, Imogen Temby, Tom Dimase and Mitchell Louey for their efforts. These students searched for jobs, created CVs and cover letters, and attended a function at Melbourne Polytechnic to be interviewed for these jobs. Volunteers from local businesses interviewed all candidates and provided them with detailed feedback. One young man has already used his enhanced job-searching skills to snare a job at Kmart
