Career Development

Term 1 has flown by for the Career Development Department, and already we’re seeing some wonderful stories start to emerge about our students succeeding in constructing a successful future. IDC Year 10s are starting to secure some excellent positions for their Term 2 mandatory Work Experience placements (highly advised to undertake for all other campuses!), a student at KBC is about to start volunteer work at the Country Fire Authority, we have a MFC student who will be venturing to New Zealand with the UN Youth Australia organisation, and we have an EMC student who has started to create professional network in the writing & publishing industry all because she followed her passions on social media! There are good things happening on all of our campuses, and we want this to continue.

Term 1 saw the introduction of dedicated Career Development sessions for Years 11 & 12 students. These sessions give the Career Development staff an opportunity to, not only talk to our students about post-school thinking like TAFE and university, but also about other related issues such as the future world of work, the current shape of the labour market, the breadth of possibilities that lay beyond Year 12, and the importance of developing enterprise (soft) skills. In Term 2, Year 12 will start to have visits from selected universities, talking about their options for next year, in a lead up to the 2018 VTAC application process, which begins this year on August 6.

Term 1 also saw the first time that Sirius College host a regional Career Development network meeting (shown in the associated photo). Held at our Eastmeadows campus, this gathering of over 40 representatives of schools in the north west of Melbourne, along with all Victorian universities, as well as number of TAFEs and industry groups, shows that the Career Development Department of Sirius College is building credibility within the tertiary education sector. Ms. Whitworth (KBC Career Development Counsellor) is an active member of the Dandenong regional Career Development network as well, and as such all our Department members’ participation in these networks brings nothing but opportunities for growth to all of our students!

Finally, another reminder about the primary ‘mouthpiece’ for the Career Development Department, the News Feed on siriuscollegecareers.com. With close to 250 subscribers at the time of writing this article, the News Feed is the daily source for news, information & opportunities from the Career Development Department for students, parents & the Sirius College community (including our weekly Career Development newsletter, which is produced each Wednesday). It’s a free service to subscribe to – all you need is an eMail address. Doing this ensures that you never miss any chance to support your son/daughter’s career aspirations, and already we’ve had a number of students act on some of the opportunities presented through the News Feed, which is fantastic to see. The Career Development Department strongly encourages you & your child/children to subscribe to this free service.