PATHWAYS TO EMPLOYMENT

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PATHWAYS TO EMPLOYMENT

• Post school options for Senior students
• Fresh ideas come from our youngest and newest
  people. They bring in stuff untainted from the
  company culture. Steven Sturm - Toyota.

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WHERE ARE THEY HEADING?
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DIVERSE and CROOKED PATHWAYS

• Interest chasers yo-yo between fields of
  interest
• Career developers consistent interest, domino
  effect
• Career mergers explore variety and incorporate
  experiences
• Forced learners detour due to costs, location,
  entry requirements
• Two-trackers- alternative career or working while
  studying
• Students tend to use only accessible and
  readily available sources, unaware of other
  options.

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Post Year 12 Options

• Tertiary study at university or TAFE (may involve
  need for casual work to support lifestyle resume
  and interview techniques important)
• Cadetship, apprenticeship, traineeship (need to
  look for options now, corporate graduate courses
  with BCC)
• Enter the workplace fulltime, part-time, casual
  (Employers directly targeting Yr 12 students and
  promoting career development and a learning
  culture within the workplace)
• Extended holiday/early retirement??????

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NEW KIDS
Generation Y, Millennium Generation, dot-coms,
Echo Boomers

• Characteristics
• Alienated by resentment, suspicion and fear from
  previous generations
• Interact with technology more than adults
• Escape real world into imaginary solidarity of
  computer games and soapies (Gilbert 1992)
• agents for consumerism

• Language and images from tv/pop idols
• Social integration defined by electronic
  prostheses!!
• Streetwise and creative
• Possess a sense of indestructibility
• Multi-tasking dexterity
• Ultra-individualistic
• Tolerant of diversity

Eric Chester Employers are adapting to
capture these talents
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Corporate graduate development programme at
.? approximately 54,000, flexible work
options, work personal life balance  The
program offers you a permanent position, a
two-year structure rotation program access to
learning and development opportunities chance to
work in approximately 4 locations/ business areas
in your field Disciplines that  is looking
for urban planning, environmental health, civil
engineering, business analysis landscape
architecture




                                               
                                                  

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Cadetships 1. We offer a flexible approach to
working hours, study commitments and professional
development 2. Council will work around your
university hours by offering an individualised
cadetship-style program 3. Designed to help you
gain valuable work experience while developing
networks and enhancing your professional
profile. 4. The program offers attractive
salary and assistance with HECs fees.
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Management Cadetship
Young Enthusiastic Career Orientated Wants a
management career in the industry
(Students can target employers for
opportunities)
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What lies ahead?
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The Australian Qualifications Framework
Schools Vocational Education Universities
Certificate II Certificate I Senior Secondary Certificate of Education/QCE Vocational Graduate Diploma Vocational Graduate Certificate Advanced Diploma Diploma Certificate IV Certificate III Certificate II Certificate I Doctoral Degree Masters Degree Graduate Diploma Graduate Certificate Bachelor Degree Associate Degree Advanced Diploma Diploma
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Combined courses

• TAFE Queensland - Diploma of Business/Diploma of
  Sport and Recreation/Bachelor of Business (Sport
  Management)
• TAFE Queensland Diploma of Hospitality
  Management/Advanced Diploma of Hospitality
  Management/Bachelor of Business (Hospitality
  Management)
• TAFE Queensland - Diploma of Community Welfare
  Work/Bachelor of Social Science
• TAFE Queensland - Diploma of Business
  (Marketing)/Diploma of Business
  (Advertising)/Bachelor of Business
• Diploma of Laboratory Technology (Biological
  Environmental Testing) or (Biotechnology or
  Pathology Testing)/Bachelor of Technology
• TAFE Queensland - Diploma of Hospitality
  Management/Diploma of Business/Diploma of Event
  Management
• Diploma of Information Technology
  (SoftwareDevelopment) /Bachelor of Information
  Technology.
• DIRECT ENTRY AVAILABLE FROM JANUARY OPEN DAY
  EVENTS

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Benefits of combined courses

• Cost factor. TAFE costs reduced
• Completion of qualification in shorter time could
  avoid drop outs
• Combining skills as well as study to meet
  employers needs
• Gradual development into tertiary study
• AQF progression guaranteed

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RANK ORDER and VET

• S1340-S1344 schedules - (only applicable to Year
  12 students who completed Senior in
  2006),Authority subjects are given the following
  values VHA 8.9 HA 6.2 SA 4 LA 2.2
  VLA 1.5 (see Note 1 to the schedules).Authority
  -registered subjects are given the following
  values VHA 5.3 HA 3.6 SA 2.3 LA 1.5
  VLA 1 (see Note 1 to the schedules).Recorded
  Vocational Education and Training (VET) subjects
  are based on Successful (J) 3.5 (see Note 1 to
  the schedules).Embedded modules based on
  Successful 4.2 (see Note 1 to the schedules).
• Vocational Education and Training (VET) studies,
  eg Certificate III IV, traineeships score well
• Employment - must be paid employment of at least
  six months full-time equivalent duration also
  considered
• (QTAC 06)

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WHAT NEXT?

• Options diverse, varied and growing
• Timing critical as some options close in August
  or earlier. Cost can be an important factor for
  many
• Individuals activities/skills and values are
  important to employers but unrecognised by
  students

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GETTING THE EDGE

• GAINING EXPERIENCE
• Internship work experience to gain insight,
  contacts and references
• Part-time work transferable skills
• Entrepreneurial/sporting skills
• Volunteer work/Community service skills and
  experience
• Articulating projects, key roles at school

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Employability Skills (ACCI 2002)Employability
Skills are the broad, generic skills needed to
gain and maintain employment and they include

• Communication
• Team work
• Problem-solving
• Initiative and enterprise
• Planning and organizing
• Self-management
• Learning
• Technology
• Students under-estimate their own interests,
  ability and application.

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INFORMAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Employers use qualifications to screen recruits.
  Personal qualities and direct industry experience
  used to hire. Blythe, Keating,et al
• Workplace engagement at school can confirm or
  deter career choice develop employability skills
  and establish networks. Smith, Green
• Paid work experiences can enhance preferred
  post-tertiary or higher education options.
  Billett
• In looking for people to hire, look for three
  qualities integrity, intelligence and energy.
  And if they dont have the first, the other two
  will kill you. Warren Buffet

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WHAT EMPLOYERS WANT.

• Graduates (school or university) who
• can introduce fresh ideas, knowledge and
  techniques into workplace
• display generic skills including communication,
  teamwork, problem solving, time management,
  literacy, numeracy and workplace ethics
• are enthusiastic, motivational, ambitious, mature
  and well presented
• are flexible, adaptable, continually update
  skills to cope with future changes.
• DEST 2002

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• The joy of life consists in the exercise of ones
  energies, continual growth, constant change, the
  enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means
  simply to die. Aleister Crowley
• He who dares to teach must never cease to
  learn. Anon.