Careers
Careers Report
Exciting news !
Congratulations to Tiarna Abbott year 12 VCAL student who has been announced Apprentice of the Year: School Based. To celebrate this huge achievement Tiarna will be presented her award at special ceremony on Thursday 1 March at Docklands, Kangans Centre for Excellence, congratulations Tiarna, well deserved and great recognition for you persistence, hard work and commitment.
Term 1 is well underway. This term our Year 10 students will continue with Work Experience arrangements for the last week of term 2 Monday 25 – Friday 29 June
Information and paperwork was handed out at the recent senior school Information night, if you were not able to attend please ensure students collect the info from Mrs Haines in the careers room.
Please read this information with your child and be aware of due dates and requirements to help them to prepare. Congratulations to Students who have a placement organised and to those students who are trying and have had a couple of knock backs, keep on trying. While it is a fantastic opportunity to investigate a career and for many to experience the world of work for the first time, it is often very challenging and you may have to try many work places before being successful. The skills gained from putting together the application and making contact are valuable and you should congratulate yourselves on every inquiry and contact you make, it take resilience to keep on applying, a skill that you will use every day for the rest of your life.
I am available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday recess and lunch times and am happy to meet with students before or after school to guide and assist you to find a placement. We will also be working in some Wednesday period 5 classes to prepare for work Experience.
Parents can help by encouraging students to make a list of careers and workplaces they are interested in, doing some research so you know something about the company or organisation, making contact initially by telephone to find the correct contact person; to either send a request or go and meet with. It is important and employers will respond well to students making these calls themselves, not parents.
There have already been a couple of Careers newsletters uploaded to the careers website already for 2018, these include information on a wide range of things some current information in the newsletters;
1. What is an Entrepreneur?
2. ADF GAP Year
3. Career as an Air Traffic Controller
4. UMAT2018
5. Tax File Numbers
6. Go8 Universities
7. ANU Tuckwell Scholarship
8. Nursing Degrees in Victoria
9. U.S. College Sports Information Session
10. Aviation at Swinburne
11. Courses in Cyber Security
12.'Experience Clever' at La Trobe University
13. What does a Clinical Neuropsychologist do?
14. What is Land Surveying?
15. A Day at Melbourne University
16. Commerce Degrees in Victoria
17. Snapshot of Deakin University in 2018
Please make yourselves familiar with the website, it is great resource and has a huge amount of information. It should be your first stop when you are looking for information on anything job, careers, university and TAFE related.
Scoresby Secondary College Careers website can be accessed via the school website/ community/ careers or directly @ http://www.scoresbysccareers.com/
Each week I will place a newsletter with information, Instruction on how create an account and sign up for email alerts are on compass and the home page of the website, I welcome feedback on how you find the website and any suggestions that you may have or information you would like included.
I also print and place a copy of the current newsletter on the senior school notice board and a copy in the careers room.
Bronwyn Haines
Careers