Career Service Centre

Overview and Rationale

The program of Career Services at Collegiate is holistic in its approach and incorporates the following aspects of Career education and pathway planning:

• • Career exploration
  • Career information
  • Career counselling
  • Subject selection
  • Career guidance

These services are provided in a variety of ways and settings that include counselling sessions; subject specific learning of potential careers; experiential learning; career information days; production of up to date careers information and guest speakers from educational institutions and employer representatives.

Our premise is based on the knowledge that as adults, our students will need to keep pace with changing technology and industries, be able to seize new employment opportunities and/or be entrepreneurial in creating new business or self-employment ventures. They will need not only professional or technical skills, but general employability skills and adaptive capacity.

Multiple career changes will mean that students will increasingly need to be able to manage lifelong learning, the ability to make good study and career choices, navigate career changes, and make the best use of their skills and abilities.

Collegiate’s program aims to prepare students to manage these challenges.

The development of each student's capacity to manage a lifetime of learning and work transitions in an uncertain and changing world of work is a central goal of the Collegiate Career Education Program.

Career Readiness in Students

Developing Career Readiness is not merely information collecting. We want our students to develop the abilities required to make decisions. The skills and abilities that we focus on include those related to Career Planning, Occupational Information and Employment Preparation.

More specifically these can be broken down into:

• Concern about the future world of work
• A sense of control over their vocational future
• Knowledge of themselves and how their skills and attributes apply to the future
• Information-seeking and exploration
• Confidence in being able to make and implement career decisions

Our program at Collegiate is aligned to the Australian Blue Print for Careers which focuses on the three key areas of:

• Personal Management
• Learning and Work Exploration
• Career building
• The Careers Coordinator works with students, parents and teachers to develop and oversee the delivery of relevant career development programs.

Aim

The aim of the Careers Program at Collegiate is to ensure our students are truly "Set for Life”. The Centre has an open-door policy as well as students and parents having the ability to make appointments.  Parents are seen as partners in the career process.  Students are welcome to pop in and seek information or advice any time.

We encourage students to have high expectations of themselves in Senior School Together with teachers and Mentors our aim is to assist students to prepare and plan for their future. We all work together to help our students succeed not just in academic study, but in all aspects of their life.