Pathways
Vermont Secondary College
Useful Websites and Resources
Skills Spiderweb
Different jobs need different skills. The Skills Spiderweb shows 12 skills that are common across many jobs. The size of the web shows the level of skill or expertise workers usually need to perform well in their job. So, the larger the web, the higher the skill level. Students are encouraged to visit Skills Spiderweb and play with the little drop-down tab and explorethe many jobs listed. Students can learn more about the skills required for particular jobs.
Health Fact Sheets
NSW Government Health has really useful medical specialty fact sheets to assist students in making more informed career choices about the many careers in the health industry, and to ensure their career plans not only fulfil their personal aspirations but also align with the needs of the industry. Students keen on finding out more about what the job is about, whether or not there is a shortage, etc. are encouraged to browse the following link on NSW Health - Medical Career Planning.
Engineering Heroes Podcasts
Engineers Australia has now officially taken the helm of the Engineering Heroes podcast series. Students keen on a career in engineering may find these podcasts about the engineering challenges in today’s society of interest. Engineers discuss their work life and the issues they are dealing with.
There are various categories of podcasts including aerospace, building services, and computer systems. Visit Engineering Heroes and sign up for regular updates.
Your Career Website
Students are encouraged to browse the very useful Your Career website which allows students to learn about occupations and explore career ideas.
Career as a Chief Listening Officer (CLO)
The role of a Chief Listening Officer (CLO) is an emerging career – a job that has only recently come about.
The Study.com. website states that a Chief Listening Officer specializes in monitoring both external and internal communications about organizations. Their primary focus is on gathering information from customers and employees in order to develop ways for an organization to enhance their relationships with both.The EasyUni.com website states that a CLO is the “air-traffic controller” for social media and other content channels. The CLO stays on top of breaking news, gossips, and chats, and circulates information while engaging the audience with its brand. The CLO makes sure that the company is aware of what the public is saying about the company’s brand or products. A Chief Listening Officer often has to be a master of a wide variety of skills—public relations, communications, marketing, and business.
Applications for the 2022 ADF Gap Year are now openAn ADF Gap Year is a unique opportunity for students to experience life in the Navy, Army or Air Force, without needing to make a long-term commitment. The skills obtained through the ADF Gap Year program will provide them valuable work and life experience and are completely transferable.
It will enable students to develop the confidence for their next endeavours.
Students who take part in the ADF Gap Year program:
- Gain valuable skills and work experience.
- Enjoy a great salary package plus free healthcare.
- Live a varied, active, and healthy lifestyle.
- Make friends with like-minded people.
- Have the opportunity to see more of Australia.
Applications are open! Learn more and/or apply at ADF Gap YearStudents might like to participate in Defence Force Information Sessions, or watch YouTube clips, so visit Defence Force Events and Information
Deakin University Campus Tours – April School Holidays
There's only one way to choose a uni. You've got to experience it for yourself and we are excited to announce that Deakin is open for campus tours.
Deakin Campus Tours will allow students and their families to experience their preferred Deakin University campus through a tailored tour, during the upcoming school holidays.
Guests will join a 45-minute tour with a current Deakin student and get a first-hand look at the cutting-edge facilities and have all their study questions answered.
The school holiday program will be held at all four Deakin campuses: Burwood, Waurn Ponds, Waterfront and Warrnambool. The April Term 1 school holidays events for each campus are:
- Melbourne Burwood Campus
9.00am, 10.30am, 12.00pm, 1.30pm, 3.00pm, 4.30pm
Thursday 8 April
Tuesday 13 April
- Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus
9.00am, 10.30am, 12.00pm, 1.30pm, 3.00pm, 4.30pm
Friday 9 April
Thursday 15 April
- Geelong Waterfront Campus
9.00am, 10.30am, 12.00pm, 1.30pm, 3.00pm, 4.30pm
Wednesday 14 April
- Warrnambool Campus
9.00am, 10.30am, 12.00pm, 1.30pm, 3.00pm, 4.30pm
Wednesday 14 April
Tours will depart daily from 9.00am until 4.30pm. The events will run in accordance with Deakin University and government guidelines.
To find out more information about the Deakin Campus Tours and to register your attendance, please visit Deakin Campus Tours.
Working as an Auslan Interpreter
The Good Careers Guide indicates that interpreters use their knowledge of languages and cultures to convert a spoken or signed language into another spoken or signed language, usually within a limited time frame and in the presence of the participants who need to communicate.
Interpreters may perform the following tasks:
- interpret verbal or signed communications between two parties
- provide interpretations of conversations or speeches
- express the meaning and feeling of what is said or signed in another language in the appropriate tone and style within a range of settings
- verbally translate written texts
Good Careers Guide - Interpreter
Auslan interpreters facilitate communication between deaf (or hard of hearing) and hearing people. They can be employed in a wide range of everyday settings – banks, legal meetings, hospitals, schools, TAFEs, universities, retail stores – and work in supporting effective communication.
Courses in Auslan is taught at a number of institutions including Melbourne Polytechnic. These include the Certificate II in Auslan and the Diploma of Auslan.
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Working in the Real Estate Profession
Working in the real estate profession offers students the opportunity to achieve high levels of personal satisfaction and career success. In general terms, estate agents lease, manage, appraise, buy, and sell residential, rural, commercial and industrial property or business on behalf of clients. The first step in establishing a real estate career is to become an agent’s representative. Agent’s representatives perform a variety of real estate roles under the supervision of a licensed estate agent. For more information about careers in real estate and the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) visit REIV - Career in Real Estate
Youth Work and Social Work Courses offered in Victoria
According to the Good Universities Guide - Youth Worker, Youth workers develop and facilitate programs to work with and support young people, either individually or in groups, in order to address social, behavioural, welfare, developmental and protection needs. They work closely with teachers, social and welfare workers, local authorities, health professionals, refuge workers, parents and, in some instances, the police.
Social workers help people to deal with personal and social problems, either directly or by planning or carrying out programmes that benefit groups or communities. They are interested in challenging the structural barriers that contribute to inequality, discrimination, exploitation, and oppression within communities. Social workers can specialise in a range of different practice areas such as children and family, youth, violence, and sexual assault, medical and health, child protection, income support, disability, education, aged care, correctional services, family law, youth justice, community legal, psychiatric and general mental health, refugees and migrants, and Indigenous communities. - Good Universities Guide - Social WorkerFor the most part, and English/EAL is the only VCE prerequisite for the following Youth Work or Social Work degrees at the following institutions in Victoria:
| INSTITUTION | MAJOR STUDIES | ATAR 2021 |
| Australian Catholic University Youth Work | Youth Work. | 59.55 (M) |
Deakin University | Behavioural science, Case management, Community development, Social work. | 65.45 (GWF) |
La Trobe University | Human services, Psychology, Social work, Sociology. | 56.10 (M)57.35 (AW) 80.00 (Be)71.05 (Mi) |
RMIT University
| Advocacy, Case management, Community development, Community services, Community work, Counselling, Human services, Indigenous studies, International development, Justice and criminology, Organisational studies, Policy studies, Politics, Professional practice, Research methods, Social sciences, Society, Sociology, Youth policy, Youth studies, Youth work. | 72.40 (C) |
| Community work, Cross-cultural studies, Human rights and advocacy, Indigenous studies, International studies, Organisational studies, Politics, Professional practice, Psychology, Research methods, Social policy, Social sciences, Social theory, Social work, Society. | 71.05 (C) | |
| Community work, Cross-cultural studies, Human rights and advocacy, Indigenous studies, Organisational studies, Politics, Professional practice, Psychological testing and assessment, Psychology, Psychology (cognitive), Psychology (developmental), Psychology (personality), Psychology (social), Psychopathology, Social policy, Social theory, Social work, Society. | 80.00 (C) | |
Victoria University Youth Work Youth Work and Criminal Justice
| Youth work. | n/a (F) |
| Criminal justice, Youth work. | n/a (W) | |
| Youth work. | n/a (F) | |
| Social work. | n/a (FN) |
Snapshot of The Australian National University (ANU) in 2021
- Although the main campus is based in Canberra in the ACT, ANU is Australia's only national university. It has campuses in ACT, NSW, and the NT.
- Quick statistics about ANU include facts such as ANU being ranking 1st in Australia and 29th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2021 and, ANU counting six Nobel Laureates among its staff and alumni. It also has one of the highest average academic staff to student ratios among Australia's leading universities according to the Good Universities Guide.
- ANU has seven academic colleges:
College of Arts and Social Sciences
College of Asia and The Pacific
College of Business and Economics
College of Engineering and Computer Science
College of Health and Medicine
- Students wishing to study at ANU can choose from a range of disciplines and degree structures, from single, double and research undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
- At ANU the Doctor of Medicine and Surgery (MChD) is a postgraduate, four-year degree - students cannot study medicine as an undergraduate at ANU. Further information on the admissions process and how to apply is available on the ANU Medical School website.
Students looking for an undergraduate pathway to medicine without sitting the GAMSAT, might like to consider the Bachelor of Health Science. - ANU students are encouraged to enhance their learning experience and take advantage of national and international global study opportunities which can count credit towards their degree.
- Prospective and current ANU student have access to many scholarships to support with the cost of their studies.
- Prospective ANU science students are encouraged to explore ANU science places, classrooms, laboratories and more through the interactive virtual tour.
- ANU offers a broad range of accommodation choices for students, within a diverse and vibrant community.
School Holiday Activities
NIDA – National Institute of Dramatic Art
NIDA Acting 101 Grades 11 – 12 12 April – 16 April Southbank
Sharpen your performance skills through a comprehensive workshop with a theatre practitioner drawing on NIDA acting techniques. Develop key principles of actor training, and extend into characterisation and scene work. Interpret, rehearse and present some of the most exciting writing produced for young people today.
Acting Boot Camp Grades 7 – 10 15 April – 16 April Southbank
A fast-paced intensive course for acting recruits: build skills in fundamental acting technique including improvisation, character development and scene work.
NIDA Drama School Grades 7 – 10 6 April – 9 April Melbourne
A comprehensive course for committed young people. Develop performance skills including improvisation, voice and movement, devising, acting and rehearsing scenes.
Introduction to Acting Grades 7 – 10 11 April Melbourne
Become confident in how to present yourself to a theatre or screen director, practice auditions for theatre, film and TV. Participate in a ‘mock audition’, receive constructive feedback on your audition preparation and technique.
Auditions and Screen Tests Grades 7 – 10 12 April – 13 April Melbourne
Become confident in how to present yourself to a theatre or screen director, practice auditions for theatre, film and TV. Participate in a ‘mock audition’, receive constructive feedback on your audition preparation and technique.
Writers Boot camp Grades 7-10 17 April – 18 April Melbourne
Identify and develop the essential skills required to write a short script. Be introduced to fundamental story principles through the practice of writing scenes and create a synopsis for a short stage play. No experience required, just a love of the written word and a desire to see those words come to life on stage!
Writers Boot camp Grades 11 – 12 17 April – 18 April Melbourne
Identify and develop the essential skills required to write a short script. Be introduced to fundamental story principles through the practice of writing scenes and create a synopsis for a short stage play. No experience required, just a love of the written word and a desire to see those words come to life on stage.
NICA – National Institute of Circus Art Australia
Introduction to Circus Aerials and Ground – Beginner 5 April – 6 April Melbourne
Ages 12 – 18. Single days or a 2 day package to try it all.
Intermediate Teen Circus – Intermediate 7 April – 9 April Melbourne
Ages 12 – 18. Single days or a 3 day intensive package for teens serious about circus.
National Institute of Circus Arts - Short Course Online Enrolment (nica.com.au)
