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Events coming up

Wed 15th March – CI Card Training (@ Wanganui 9 am - 3:15)

Mon 20th March – Year 10 Work Experience Week

Thur 27th April – Careers Day Out (all Year 10’s)

 

Wanganui Careers website

We have a great new Careers portal designed for both students and parents. I’d really encourage you to bookmark the page on your family or personal computer, we will be doing the same with all the students.

Here you will find:

  • calendar of career events
  • parent menu of useful links
  • secure student login where they can explore career interests, templates to write resumes & cover letters, update their career action plan and much more. Everything they do in this area is saved for them so they can access and modify it later
  • links to getting tax file numbers, lodging your first tax return, job vacancies, course searching, defence forces, police careers, youth allowance, gap year and volunteering opportunities etc. etc.

 

Do you love working with computers, science and solving problems?

Have you considered studying data science? In our day and age we are using and storing massive amounts of data and this will only increase in the future. Data science fundamentally deals with how we will store and analyse data in the future. 

The following has been taken from the Swinburne University website: “Data science is an opportunity to explore new kinds of data and new tools for processing it. You'll learn how to manipulate and process data in order to extract information and establish truths. Data science spans the use and processing of data across diverse fields, including modelling for supercomputing or astrophysics. Or you could work with metadata, a field that will require data to be processed in ways we’ve never even considered”.

Data Science is an exciting study area and there will be many jobs available in the future. You may consider studying data science at the following Victorian universities

To explore career options, go to the Careers with Code website, http://careerswithcode.com.au/

 

Wanganui Careers Facebook page

Over the past week there have been part-time, casual, apprenticeship, traineeship and full time positions advertised. Find ‘Wanganui Park Secondary College Careers’ and like the page. Then you will receive updates about events, vacancies and information relevant to you and your family that are related to careers and the world of work.

 

Construction Induction card

In any of the Construction related fields (building, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, bricklaying, painting, concreting etc.) all people on site, including students on work experience, have to possess a CI Card (Construction Induction OH & S cert.).

The CI Card will cost $90 to complete and will be conducted at the school on Wednesday 15th March. If your child wishes to complete this they must collect the paperwork from Mr Crosbie in the SLC and return it by the end of February.

 

Careers in the Defence Force & Gap Year Opportunities

Army, Navy and Air Force Gap Year: The Australian Defence Force Gap Year program provides an opportunity for young Australians, who have finished Year 12 to experience military training and lifestyle whilst gaining new skills and pay over their Gap Year in the Army, Navy or Air Force.

You will earn more than $45,000, have subsidised accommodation and full medical and dental coverage. There are a variety of roles available to apply for. Applications will open in March for current Year 12 students and you can register your interest now. For more information and to apply, go to http://bit.ly/244jYe0

Other career occupations: There are many occupations in the Defence Force that you may be suited to. Your ability to apply for the occupation of your choice will be effected by your level of education, the subjects you have studied at school, your age, and your gender.

To narrow down which occupations you can apply for, use the Defence Force “Job Finder”. You just enter your personal details and select your general career interest areas and a list of jobs will be generated. Go to www.defencejobs.gov.au/

 

Lattitude Global Volunteering

Applications are now open for gap year placements in countries such as:

Poland

Canada

United Kingdom

China

Japan

Ghana

Argentina

Fiji

Vanuatu

Malawi

For information and to download the registration form, go to www.lattitude.org.au/

 

Casual employment:

You can sign up for employment at the following websites:

Graeme Crosbie

www.wanganuiparkcareers.com

www.facebook.com/careersWPSC/