Careers News

For the complete weekly career news please go to the following link: https://www.monivae.com/learning-teaching/careers-learning-pathways

Sort out your CV

As if you want to be sorting out your CV with 2,563 assignments on your mind. The school holidays are a perfect time to make sure you have an up-to-date resume ready to go because you never know when a part-time gig or work experience role may come up. 

Take our quiz to see if yours is up to scratch! https://bit.ly/2XkuOmg

Follow STEM accounts on TikTok

You’re on TikTok anyway, right? So it can’t hurt to give a couple of STEM accounts a follow while you’re at it, https://bit.ly/3tS2gNz 

Hit up anything tagged #tiktokscience and consider it homework. 

Don’t forget to follow us too! www.tiktok.com/@careerswithstem

Find your STEM + X

Know what your favourite STEM subject is, but can’t quite work out how to combine it with your passion? Take five minutes to figure it out, https://bit.ly/3yjaQ9z

Watch a STEM-related movie

Yep, there are loads of films on Netflix that can teach you a thing or 10 about a career in STEM. Hidden Figures, The Martian or Interstellar anyone? Check out these 6 PG films that are entertaining and educational, https://bit.ly/393A40z

Stalk some careers

Keen to track down a bunch of young people that’ve studied the STEM courses you’re looking at? Apart from stalking them on socials, you could read up on their pathways https://bit.ly/3932rfa

Look into tertiary study options!

It’s not just people’s careers you could stalk these holidays – snooping tertiary courses would be a seriously productive way to spend an afternoon. There are loads of ways to land STEM qualifications.

Use the Good Careers Guide to search for courses – www.goodcareersguide.com.au

Don’t forget VET and non-uni pathways! https://bit.ly/3zkX8Tf 

Year 12 Tertiary Dates: September – October

Key dates for VTAC

The Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) processes course applications on behalf of Victorian tertiary institutions, www.vtac.edu.au/

Applications

Timely applications close for VTAC on Thursday 30 September. You can apply for up to 8 courses. 

Applications after this date will incur a higher application fee. 

Special Consideration

Special Entry Access Scheme (SEAS) applications close by Friday 8 October.

www.vtac.edu.au/access/seas.html 

Scholarships

Scholarship applications close by 8 October, www.vtac.edu.au/access/scholarships.html 

Courses – early closing dates

The following courses must be added to your VTAC preference list by Thursday 30 September.

Students will be unable to remove these courses and re-add them after this date.

Monash University

All undergraduate medicine courses 

The University of Melbourne

All undergraduate Fine Arts courses

Music

Charles Sturt University

Oral Health (Therapy & Hygiene), Holmesglen campus

Physiotherapy, Albury-Wodonga campus

Private colleges and TAFE institutes 

You will need to apply directly to some institutes. Each relevant private college and TAFE will set their own application dates. 

Early admission programs

The following are closing dates for several early admission programs. 

September

October

Students applying for nursing/midwifery courses

Year 12 students applying for nursing or midwifery courses should be mindful of the following entry requirements:

VTAC

Applicants applying for nursing or midwifery courses via the Victorian Tertiary Admission Centre (VTAC) will need to complete the ‘Nursing and Midwifery Declaration Form’ within their VTAC account. 

Victoria University

Bachelor of Nursing applicants will need to register for and sit the CASPer test. Note – applicants who are also applying for Initial Teacher Education courses will need to pay and sit for two separate CASPer tests, https://takealtus.com/welcome_to_takealtus/

Students applying for undergraduate teaching courses

To be eligible to apply for undergraduate teacher education courses, applicants will need to register for and sit the CASPer test. 

Applicants will need to organise this as soon as possible and select the universities they would like their results to be sent to, https://takealtus.com/welcome_to_takealtus/ 

Upcoming events

Photography Studies College - Lights, Camera, Action! Workshop

Students are invited to participate in an on-campus photography workshop. Dates are:

Monday 20 September

Friday 1 October

Information: https://bit.ly/3jv8peG

Federation University

Folio workshop

Federation University Arts Academy and the Art Gallery of Ballarat invite students to a full day folio development workshop in Ballarat.

Date: Wednesday 22 September

RSVP: https://bit.ly/38wII7a

Medicine and Dentistry 

Free information webinar

National Institute of Education is running a webinar for students interested in applying for medicine and/or dentistry in the future. The webinar will cover a large range of topics and is suited to Year 10 – 12 students and families.

Date: 11 October, 7.00pm – 9.00pm

RSVP: https://bit.ly/3mOQa6i

Federation University

Virtual Mini-Hackathon – students could win a scholarship worth $3000*

Students in years 11 and 12 are invited to a mini-hackathon. Students will work in teams and learn how to apply the latest disruptive technologies to solve problems in a creative and innovative way. 

Students will be mentored by IBM, Federation Business School lecturers and other industry experts to come up with an innovative business idea that utilises new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies. 

Students will pitch their ideas at the end of the day and the winning team members will each receive a $3,000 scholarship* to study the new Bachelor of Cognitive Enterprise degree in 2022 or 2023.

Thursday 23 September, 10am – 1.30pm, https://bit.ly/3AoqCk4

*terms and conditions apply

Michael Harms 

Careers Coordinator