| CAREERS
GUIDANCE
| a |
All
students in Year 10 complete a Careers Assessment that
includes tests of Career Occupational Preference, Aptitude
Testing and a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator re personality
type, preferred learning style and work environment and full reports are sent to parents. |
| |
Interviews,
with senior staff, focus on review of the Careers Assessment and on goal setting for senior
years. |
| b |
A
University Tour is conducted for Year 10, prior to commencement
of Senior Studies. |
Year 10 complete Work Experience for fi ve days at the end of Term 2. It is expected that students will choose to
do this work experience within their home environment. All students have access, via the Careers Centre, to webbased
resources and a range of publications such as handbooks for the various State and international institutions,
information from private colleges and TAFE course outlines.
There is also a self-assessment programme, ‘The Self Directed Search’, which helps students determine their interests
and abilities in relation to possible future careers. The Careers’ Centre also co-ordinates the UAC applications for
tertiary institutions, residential college applications, cadetships, traineeships etc.
Year 11 and 12 students are interviewed at the beginning of their two years of senior studies, followed up
with regular individual careers’ counselling. The purpose of the interviews is to determine career choices and
to ensure that subject choices will enable students to pursue their chosen goals. Careers Guidance is also
available at all senior Year Group Parents’ Meetings. |
