Year 10 Work Experience 2022 Monday 20th June - 24th June 2022

If you have not already had a part-time job, work experience may be the first time you visit a workplace and learn about employer expectations and the world of work.

The most important thing to learn is that you are an individual. You may enjoy doing the same things as your friends, but as you think about your future, it's important to remember that you and your friends have different abilities, strengths, weaknesses, passions and family backgrounds. You need to find what suits you best and what gives you the best chance for success and being happy.

So how do you find out what suits you? Some of your friends might know what they want to do, but it's okay if you don't know – even discovering what you don't want to do is a step in the right direction.

Choosing a career is not something that will just magically happen. No-one else can choose a career for you. You have to make it happen for yourself.

Have you ever asked yourself or thought about the following questions:

• There are too many career choices – how do I decide?
• How did other people work out what they wanted to do after school?
• If I don't know what I want to do now, how am I ever going to work it out?
• Who is going to help me start my career journey?
• How have other people discovered the career of their dreams?
• Can work really be fun?

These are just a few questions that may have started to pop into your mind when you think about what you are going to do when you leave school. It doesn't matter if you know exactly what you want to do or if you have absolutely no idea, every student will ask themselves similar questions at some point in their final years at school.

Your work experience employer will have planned some tasks for you to do. They may not be what you expected and you may not like the work, but the activities will hopefully assist you to make better informed career, course and pathways decisions.

REMINDER ALL FORMS ARE DUE NOW!