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This
section of the Careers Centre Website has been designed to assist students considering
making a very important and significant decision about their future at this
College.
If it is your desire to look at other options continue, if your need help with problems that could be solved with the help of your co-ordinators, parents, Mrs. Taylor or student counselor please seek their assistance as soon as possible!
CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:
Have you ever asked yourself: Do I want to work or do I want to study? And ‘How
long will it be before I can get out into the workforce and earn some money
in my chosen career?’ They’re questions that we all have to face eventually.
Think about them carefully; what difference will the answers make to your life
and career?
WORK OR STUDY?
Study
In most cases, it’s a means to an end – finding the right job. Courses which
don’t relate to any specific job (sometimes called ‘non-vocational’ courses)
have a purpose too: they make you more employable because you are more accomplished.
Very few people despite what you may have heard, are perpetual students who
‘have never done a day’s work in their lives’. Normally you have to have some
sort of job before or during study – out of economic necessity, if nothing else.
Work
Even if you never set foot in a school after your last day of Year 10, chances
are that you will still need to study. Most of us have to sit for tests, if
only a test for a driver’s licence, or a test at a job interview. We are still
involved in educating ourselves long after we leave school, at a university
degree course, a TAFE course or inhouse and on the job training. Anyone who
wants to succeed, who wants interesting or well paid work, as most of us do,
will keep on though not necessarily in a classroom.
THE PATH TO EDUCATION:
Year 10
Finishing Year 10 sees you making some important decisions. But remember that
decisions can be reversed. If you leave school now, before Year 12, you can
always return and do it later….otherwise look ahead and see what you can do.
TAFE Certificates; Apprenticeship; Private College – Business
Year 11
You’ve done your Year 10, plus a year of your VCE. Now is when most teenagers
contemplate what they really want. Leave and do an apprenticeship – get a job,
attend a private college or move on to Year 12. Weigh up your options – but
you can always change your mind. TAFE Certificate; Apprenticeship; Traineeship;
Private College – Business
Year 12
Well you’ve got here. Completing the final year of secondary education opens
your career choices right up. University, college, TAFE or work is in your
reach. It all depends on what you want and what you achieved at school, TAFE
Certificate – Associate Diploma/Diploma; Apprenticeship; Training; Private College
– Business; Cadetship; University Degree/College/College of Advanced Education.
What pathways do you have when you leave the College?
Before any decision to leave the College is made it is important to consider
the consequences of your decision and the possible pathways available to you.
If you are ready to leave complete an exit form available from your Year Level
Co-ordinator or work with them to come up with solutions to your particular
situation.
Using the pathways map below explore the option of leaving. The pathways will involve you completing some tasks, copying contacts, thinking about yourself and working with the Careers Advisor before you eventually exit. Remember that what you are doing is for YOU don't just walk away without the appropriate preparation-you are worth more than that!
Choose a pathway which is most relevant to you:
JOB
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APPRENTICESHIPS/TRAINEESHIPS
STAYING
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