This section of the Careers site 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, careers advisors or student counsellor 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!!
