Careers
What’s Happening in Careers?
Year 10
Week 9 is MyPath week! We have a great range of activities to inspire our students and get them thinking broadly about their pathways so that they can make smart choices during their subject selections. We will be meeting with students and parents in Week 10 to confirm these selections. The invitation for these meetings was emailed out last week.
This is what the week looks like for the 10’s.
Tuesday is our MyPath Careers Expo in the school gym. We are excited to invite you and your family to attend between 3.15pm-5.30pm on Tuesday, 20 June.
We have over 25 providers and businesses attending, including:
1 | RTO |
Health Science Hub | Science – VET |
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2 | Diamond High Performance Institute | Fitness – VET | |
| Master Plumbing Association | Plumbing | |
4 | Skillhire | Carpentry - VET | |
5 | Mount Pleasant College | Animation/Screen | |
6 | Fremantle Education Centre | Education/Business | |
7 | Australian Brick and Bricklaying Training Foundation | Bricklaying | |
8 | South Metro TAFE/Jobs and Skills Centre | All/Job search | |
9 | Stanley College | Hospitality | |
10 | UNI | ECU/WAAPA | Uni |
11 | Curtin | Uni | |
12 | Notre Dame | Uni | |
13 | Murdoch | Uni | |
14 | UWA | Uni | |
15 | SAE | Creative Industry | |
16 | Muresk | Uni | |
17 | INDUSTRY | Construction Training Fund | Construction - governing body |
18 | Defence Force | Defence | |
19 | Gold Industry Group | Gold Mining | |
20 | Energy Club of WA | Energy Industry | |
21 | City of Kalamunda/YAK | Government/Support | |
22 | EMPLOYMENT | Apprenticeship and Training Company | Hiring Agency/Apprenticeship Support |
23 | KPMG | TNC - Audit, Tax and Advisory services. | |
24 | Mainfreight | Logistics | |
25 | Maximia | Indigenous Employment Services - SBT | |
26 | Bruce Rock Engineering | Fabrication/Boilermaking | |
27 | SMS Mining Services | Mining | |
28 | Komatsu | Mining | |
29 | Dome | Hospitality | |
30 | Maca Mining | Mining |
This is a great opportunity for you to have one on one conversations about your son's future. Please come along and find out more about the myriad of possibilities on offer.
Attendance is free and all are welcome!
Inspirational Speaker
David Taylor will set the tone for the week, focusing the students on their role in deciding their future and grasping their opportunities. As a lead cricket coach and elite athlete who has overcome a brain tumor, he has some great advice for the students about developing a positive mindset.
Year 12 Presentation
This presentation involves a cross section of boys from Year 12 sharing their learning journey and pathway with the Year 10’s to give them an idea of what to expect from the different pathways and the different areas that our boys are aiming for. This will be a short presentation from each student and then a panel Q&A experience.
The following Year 12’s have volunteered to be involved:
Callum McInnes, Lucas Marra, Taj Egan, Julian Munns, Thomas Mortensen, Zaid Buckland, Riley Ozane, Jared Henderson and Damien Chikwaka.
MOB Session
This session is run by Jeremy Logan, the MOB Liaison Officer. He organises for recent MOB to come back and share what they are doing now and how they got there. They offer some great insights for the boys about the things they wish they knew when they were at school and what it is like in the real world.
Explore a Career Morning
The concept here is that students will be actively engaged in activities from different career areas and have the opportunity to speak to people working in these areas. Students have chosen between these opportunities:
Fitness Industry
Hannes Holly from Active 4 Life will take a group through a 30 minute personal training session and explain what is involved in being a Personal Trainer and the training required to get into this industry.
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Aviation - Drone flying
This group will be learning to operate a mini drone and learning about the increasing use of drones and automation in industry.
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STEM Careers Scitech will run this presentation. Welcome to the future – where science, technology, engineering and maths are essential to both our work and day-to-day activities than ever before. Showcasing how our work lives will change, this presentation explores how students can harness their STEM skills for maximum enjoyment, well-being and – perhaps most importantly – their career opportunities. |
Hospitality
Learn to make a great coffee on our very own UBean coffee cart. Learn about the opportunities in the hospitality industry. |
Horticulture
Learn about careers in the horticulture industry with Costa Group.
Make a mushroom tower then cook some mushrooms for a tasty burger.
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SES
Learn about career opportunities with the State Emergency Services. Find out more about what they do and the training required to be involved. |
VR Experience
Use a VR headset to explore a range of artificial worlds, moving around and within it, and interacting with virtual features, items or people to learn more about career options.
Experiences on offer: ISS, Frog dissection, open heart surgery, sound stage, ocean acidification, cataclysmic earth, Nature treks, tilt brush, ecosphere
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Careers Carousel
This event involves members of the public coming in to speak to small groups of Year 10’s about what they do, their career journey and how to get into the field. Each group spends 9 minutes with each presenter and then the groups rotate to the next speaker.
We are very lucky to have the following presenters coming in to speak to the boys:
| Cameron Unwin and Maverick Hamilton | Police Force |
| Joe Lazzara | Law |
| Sonya Baker | Psychology |
| Harrison Gerhardy | Graphic Design and Creative Industries |
| Matthew Hughes | Politics |
| Paul O’Connor | Emergency Services |
| Raymond Wattenhofer | Mine management |
| Daniela Tonon | Native Title Law |
| Jeff Austen | Turf management |
| Joshua Oorschot | Electrical/small business |
| Michael Facey | Film and TV Production |
| Sarah Knox and Heidi Maasikas | Interior design |
| Brodie Lathby-Cook | Events Management |
| Ben Harrison | Electrical instrumentation |
| Hugo Van Niekerk | IT |
| Tyson Baker | Engineering |
We are really excited about this week and hope it is very useful for the boys.
Year 11
The Year 11 General students group had a panel discussion with Rob Roper (Roper Tutoring/Tik Tok influencer), Rhys Hill (Woodside) and Steve Motion (Barminco) where they discussed the furture of work and what employers are looking for.
The Year 11 University bound students explored a particular industry area, accessing the resources on The Careers Department. This gave them a greater insight as to what it would be like to work in a particular area and how to get there.
Year 12
The Year 12 General group had a panel discussion with Rob Roper (Roper Tutoring/Tik Tok influencer), Rhys Hill (Woodside) and Steve Motion (Barminco) where they discussed the future of work and what employers are looking for.
The Year 12 University bound group learnt about HECS, HELP loans and census dates. They were sent out more information on this that they can access at home.
Students were also advised of the scholarship opportunity below. Please direct any queries to Ms Eaton.
ECU School of Engineering is offering $20,000 scholarships to high performing Year 12 students who wish to study Engineering in 2024.
Nominations are now open. We are pleased to invite all secondary schools to nominate any high performing students who are interested in studying Engineering for these scholarships. Alternatively, interested students can also self-nominate.
Attached you will find a brochure providing more information regarding this scholarship along with a nomination form. An electronic version of the nomination form can also be downloaded at www.ecu.edu.au/scholarships/details/ecu-engineering-excellence-scholarships.
The deadline for nominating your top students is 20 December 2023.
WAAPA Auditions:
You can now access the Audition/Interview Guides for all WAAAPA courses 😊🙌
Arts & Cultural Management:
Dance:
Music:
https://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/1036296/WAAPA-music-audition-guide.pdf
Production and Design:
https://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/courses-and-admissions/our-courses/production-and-design
Performance (Aboriginal Performance, Acting, Music Theatre, Performing Arts, BPA (Honours):
Apply now for 2024!
New Newsletter Format
Please find attached the ‘In Focus’ newsletter compiled by Bev Johnson. This is an incredibly rich resource for information about Careers and VET. There are a number of opportunities for engagement with Universities as well as up to date information about changes to Early Offers and courses. Please take some time to read through the document. There are links to relevant events and opportunities.
Kylie Eaton
Careers Information Coordinator