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Careers News for Term Three Issue 12 includes:

• Next Open Days 2019
• Year 10 Careers Activity Week
• Future Skills Framework 2030 - FYA
• REMINDERS:
• Work Experience Opportunities
• Parent and Caregivers Guide to University
• Year 10 VTAC Guide 2019
• Important Year 12 information is now on the next page
• Please feel free to make an appointment

Useful Links: Australian Jobs 2019

Next Open Days 2019

Coming up:

ACU                                             - Sunday 11 August

ANU Virtual Open Day        - Anytime

Melbourne University        - Sunday 18 August

Melbourne Polytechnic     - Sunday 18 August

Deakin Geelong Campus   - Sunday 18 August

Monash Parkville                  - Sunday 18 August

Victoria University               - Sunday 18 August

Open Days are a great time to visit an institution when it’s at its best. Everyone is there – academics, lecturers, current students and information officers. More importantly, you can talk with academics, lecturers and current students about what certain courses are actually like and what is required to get into them. For other dates and times please download a copy of the 2019 Tertiary Open Days below.

Year 10 Careers Activities Week

This inaugural week of activities for our Year 10 Students commences on Monday 12 August through to Thursday 15 August. For many students, exploring future pathways is exciting and sometimes daunting. We know that the more opportunities they have to experiment and learn about different professional contexts, the more equipped they will be to find the best fit. The driving purpose of Activity Week is to allow age-appropriate professional exploration.

This year we have decided to combine a number of opportunities for all our Year 10 students to participate in. This includes subject guidance, one-on-one consultation, a Q&A panel with some of our Years 11 and 12 students, the Diploma Subject Expo and a very special professional group workshop with the team from Project Gen Z. Project Gen Z are a collective of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs and founders who have joined forces to roll out the Dare to Dream 

entrepreneurial workshops targeted at young people all over the world .

One of the important highlights of the week will be the opportunity to participate in three Accredited Certificate courses: Barista, Food Safety Handling and First Aid. These courses will provide essential foundation employability skills that prepare students with skills, qualifications and knowledge for jobs that can support educational pursuits and chosen career pathways. These will also allow students to obtain flexible or permanent sources of income, assisting them to transition from student to paid or voluntary workforce participation and develop valuable transferable skills that they can apply to any workplace.  We are very excited to offer them this excellent opportunity as they go forward into their senior years of high school.

Download our Subject Selection Guide below:

Future Skills Framework 2030 - FYA

"Australia is not equipped with the skills for the future of work"

"In the rapidly changing world of work Australia’s long-term economic growth will be reliant on an adequately skilled and educated workforce. FYA’s research provides strong evidence that our current and future workers are finding the transition to full-time work more challenging and feel they lack the right skills. Our ageing population means older Australians are leaving the workforce in larger numbers than young people can replace them and skill shortages are costing the economy."

"FYA’s Future Skills Framework 2030 outlines how Australian governments can work with young people, industry, educational institutions and leading thinkers across the country to move from talk to action, proposing four key things:

1. A National Future Skills Symposium - To identify a pathway to ensuring young people get the skills they need.

2. A digital platform for future career insights - That provides young people with localised information on the jobs available and the skills they need.

3. Enterprise and work-integrated learning initiatives - That provide relevant and immersive enterprise education and meaningful paid work experience.

4. An ongoing Future Skills research program - Young people will need re-skilling due to automation."

Visit their website here to download the factsheets: https://www.fya.org.au/futureskills/

There are also some other great resources to read on this website.

REMINDERS

WORK EXPERIENCE

OPPORTUNITIES 2020

Work Experience: Monash Biomedicine Round 3

Opens 12 August - Closes 23 August

Work Experience: National Gallery of Victoria

Opened May - Closes 1 October

This is an excellent link to our Career Website where you can find a host of important resources including all the appropriate form. There are also some useful guidelines about; Employers responsibilities, Working with animals and a helpful  parents guide.

Download The Latest Work Experience Resource Book below:

Download the Work Experience Arrangement Form below:

Parent and Caregivers Guide to University

This one is courtesy of Deakin but you can apply most of the information to any institution. Parents and caregivers play an important role in providing guidance, information and support to their child as they plan their future and consider their further study options. It can be hard to know the best way to offer support to your child when it comes to choosing a course of study and a university. Deakin has put together some great tips on how to help your child stay focused and start developing the skills needed for university. I hope you find it helpful.

Year 10 VTAC Guide

As a Year 10 student about to choose your Years 11 and 12 study program, it can all seem a little overwhelming. But if you break it down into steps, it becomes more manageable. This guide has some great activities and resources to help you with some of the next steps which will be about subject selection. Some of these activities you may have participated in as part of our Careers Elective but it doesn't hurt to take another look at them. Once you have created a plan it is time to make an appointment to meet me and discuss some of your options so you are well and truly prepared when it comes to selecting the right subjects.

Remember my quote.. "Start with the D.R.E.A.M."

Note: A hard copy is now available from the Careers Hub in The Cottage.

Important Year 12 Information

Please see the following page I have dedicated to all Year 12 Careers information.

Making An Appointment

You can find me in the Careers Hub office downstairs in The Cottage. Please use this link on the Preshil Careers website to make an appointment because it syncs to my calendar to avoid clashes. If you have questions or concerns please email me anytime at bronte.howell@preshil.vic.edu.au

Special Thanks

Thanks to Jacky Burton from the Yarra Career Practitioners Group and Compass Career News who tirelessly each year puts together a lot of the one-sheet information guides that help us collate tertiary course information into the one place for students to easily access.

References:

• Stock Images: pixabay.com
• Career Tools Newsletter
• Foundation for Young Australians