What will I do after completing my HSC?

What will I do after completing my HSC?

The final two year’s at school are the most difficult and stressful. There are vital and important decisions to be made during these two year’s that will affect your future career aspirations. It is necessary to choose the most important and relevant subject choices in year ten to ensure your success at entering the career path of your choice at university, college, apprenticeship or further training. You should be thinking of an area of work that interests you now, and will interest you for a couple of years, or even a lifetime. The next step is to decide what training or further study do I need to undertake, to succeed in my career aspirations?

Further Study and Training

The following organisations or agencies will help and aid you when enquiring about your chosen career, providing the necessary information and support that you will need to succeed in completing further study and training in your chosen career path.

1. TAFE

Technical and Further Education courses are provided by this organisation, set up to help and benefit school leavers, who want to gain a necessary diploma, cert, advanced cert or apprenticeship in their chosen career interest. These courses prepare students with the vital training that is required in relation to working within a business or organisation; to working as a builder or electrician, or beauty and therapy. Courses vary from a few month’s to three- four years.

Further information on courses and TAFE is available from the following web site: http://www.studyingaustralia.com

2. UNIVERSITIES

There are various university degree and post degree programmes available for school leavers to attend relating to their specific field of interest. Programme degrees are designed to develop a student’s aptitude in a chosen career path, for example, Batchelor Arts Degree in Maths and French will lead to H-Dip in Education and finally a teaching position in a high-school.

Other professions included as degree or post degree are for example, medicine, law, philosophy, architecture, art and design, business, accountancy, journalism, agriculture etc.

The best ways to find out more information about what degree you would like to apply for are available from your career teacher at school, career office at school, open days for universities, university websites and brochures.

3.    APPRENTICESHIPS

When deciding to complete an apprenticeship, there are various different agencies set up to provide necessary information and relevant work placements for your career choice:

CES Job Centres

Local newspapers

Approach an employer directly

Contact TAFE

Contact ACTU (Council of Trade Unions)

Each agency mentioned above will provide you with information regarding to starting an apprenticeship directly after school, or by helping you to enrol for a qualification in a specific trade or interest that will eventually lead to working with a prospective employer.

You should attend and research as much as you can about your particular career path now, so that you are confident that this is the right path for you. During the summer or at weekends, try and gain some valuable work experience in that chosen field, as this will undoubtedly prove to you if it is the right career or you. Also consult your career teachers, librarians, local council and government organisations, youth access centres in relation to your career aspirations.