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Background. Victoria wide program. 140 schools across Victoria. Delivered to Years 9 & 10 students. Brings Schools, Community Stakeholders, Students and Industry together. The Components. Classroom curriculum activities. Young Industry Ambassadors Industry Tours Youth Central website,.

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  1. Background • Victoria wide program. • 140 schools across Victoria. • Delivered to Years 9 & 10 students. • Brings Schools, Community Stakeholders, Students and Industry together.

  2. The Components • Classroom curriculum activities. • Young Industry Ambassadors • Industry Tours • Youth Central website,

  3. Skills shortages – the facts • By 2015, Victoria will need 123,000 more people with a Diploma or Advanced Diploma, than we currently have trained. • If there is no increase in the number of young people achieving VET qualification, we will need 240,000 more people than we have trained.

  4. Gen Y • Born after 1980. • Motivated by consumerism. • Want cash now. Not prepared to wait. • Confident about taking risks. • Expect a lot more from employers than previous generations.

  5. Extremely savvy with technology. • Desire prestigious career pathways which reward them with variety, further opportunity to up skill and opportunity for travel. • Are prepared to jump from job to job. • Have numerous pathways to choose from.

  6. What can CiM Add? • Year 10 students make subject selections for the pathway they wish to take for the following year. • CiM delivers “real “ career information to Years 9 & 10 students by young people, who are also GEN Y & are often only several years out of school.

  7. WHY ?

  8. Student influences • Family • Teachers • Peers • Media • Movies, TV

  9. Employers are in a bidding WAR! Competing industries are : • high profile • self explanatory • SEXY

  10. Young Industry Ambassadors • Talk about their personal pathway. • Passionate about their job, organisation, industry • Tertiary, Trade or other.

  11. Options under CiM • YIA can visit schools. • YIA can “host” a tour at their worksite. • Industry Tours. • “Dog tag” interactive engraver available. • Schools & Stakeholders can access funding & support for innovative activities.

  12. Industry Tour Destination • Host small groups of students through the site. • Where appropriate, an interactive activity is encouraged. • Showcases high tech products, processes, equipment. • Wherever possible, an experience or souvenir of the tour, should be taken home.

  13. 72 YIAs to date. • 31 Industry Tour sites. • Participating employers include • Cadbury, Holden, Ford, Qantas, Sutton Tooling, Autoliv, Fosters, Visy, Northgate Goldmine, Sealed Air Cryovac, Note Printing Australia, Boeing, John Beever, Production Parts, Yakult, SPC & NCI Packaging to name a few.

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