Parents as Career and Transition Support PACTS

1. Parents as Career and Transition SupportPACTS

2. Buckley Park College • Presented by Tricia Fidler Careers and Transitions Project Officer Western Local Community Partnership

3. Week One • Introductions • Career Development • Employment landscape • Where to start • Occupational Categories • The Job Guide • What can you do?

4. Parents as Career and Transition Support • 100% of parents think it is important to be involved in their child’s transition • 80% of young people said they would appreciate help from their parents in making decisions • Only 20% of parents feel they have sufficient knowledge of the current options to be effective in supporting this type of decision making

5. Share something about you • Something you remember about your own career transition. • In what ways is it different now? • Who or what was your main influence?

6. The Complete Career Education and Training Sport and Recreation Paid Work Individual Home And Family Voluntary Activities Sourced from parents as career partners workshop manual (Department of Education & Training) Western Australia

7. Career DevelopmentA simple model of Career Development Doing Planning Preparation Exploration Awareness Sourced from parents as career partners workshop manual (Department of Education & Training) Western Australia

8. Is this how you think about Career Decision Making? Gender What more would you add? Interests Ability Health Knowledge Career Decision Maker Skills Religion Ethnicity The emphasis is on the career decision maker as an individual Sourced from parents as career partners workshop manual (Department of Education & Training) Western Australia

9. Media Employers Family Peers School Social and Environmental impact on Career Decision Making Gender Historical Factors Geographical Factors Economic climate Interests Ability Health Career Decision Maker Knowledge Skills Religion Ethnicity Career decision makers also live within a society or an environment where many factors need to be considered Sourced from parents as career partners workshop manual (Department of Education & Training) Western Australia

10. What is happening in the employment market? • Do you need to update your understanding of the job market? What jobs that are in decline? • You can use available information to make predictions about the future workplace. • You might need to get an understanding of the current terminology and ideas about preparing for the workforce.

11. Workforce Strength • Number of people entering the workforce is declining • Number of people exiting the workforce is increasing DEWR National and State Skills Shortages Lists 2006

12. Ageing Workforce • “Workforce Tomorrow” Report identified a potential shortfall of 195,000 workers in 5 years as a result of population ageing • The Age Newspaper report indicated that in 2002 – 185,000 people entered the workforce and by 2020 that number is expected to reduce to just 12,000

13. Valuable resource www.workplace.gov.au/workplace/Publications/LabourMarketAnalysis/AustralianJobs.htm

14. Nationally over 50% of new employment to 2012-13 is expected to come from 3 main industries:

15. Child Care Coordinators Accountants and Auditors ICT Skills (selected specialisations Engineers (civil, mining, petroleum, mechanical, elecetrial, electronics, chemical) Registered nurses Health Specialists - Speech pathologist Dentist Sonographer Physiotherapist Radiographer What are the skill shortage Professional jobs? DEEWR Australian Jobs 2008

16. Auto Mechanic and Electrician, Panel beater, Vehicle painter. Carpenter, Joiner, Plasterer, Bricklayer, Plumber, Cabinet maker. Metal fitter, Machinist, Fabricator, Sheet metal worker, Welder. Electrician, Refrigeration and air-conditioning Furniture upholsterer Chef & Cook, Pastry cook What are the skill shortage Trade jobs? DEWR National and State Skills Shortages Lists 2006

17. Qualifications for Jobs Potential qualifications pathways for jobs % of employment Jobs that currently and potentially have a university pathway 24.0 Jobs that currently and potentially have a VET pathway 62.3 Jobs not requiring qualifications 13.7 Current qualifications profile of the population % of 15-64 years pop. University qualifications 20.0 VET qualifications 29.9 No qualifications 50.1

18. Where to start Encourage your child to identify: • What they are good at • What they enjoy doing • Where their interests lie • What is important to them in there working life Read pages 8-12

19. Occupational Categories • Occupations are often categorised based on the skills required to perform those jobs. (Page 8 in workbook) • What is your occupational category? • Matching interests and abilities to these categories can give direction to exploration of options (page 11)

20. Career Assessments • What they are/are not – Page 13 • Careers Quiz www.jobsearch.gov.au • My Future – My Profile www.myfuture.edu.au • Health and Community www.hcscareers.vic.edu.au/careerquiz.php

21. Career Quizhttp://jobsearch.gov.au/Careers/cq_home.aspx

22. My resultsGeneral Careers

23. My Future – My Profile www.myfuture.edu.au/services/default.asp?FunctionID=2010

24. My Results in H&C Serviceswww.hcscareers.vic.edu.au/careerquiz.php

25. The Job Guide • The Job guide is given to all year 10 students. • It provides information about job prospects, personal requirements, skills and training required • You can also investigate employment opportunities and related jobs Available online: www.jobguide.dest.gov.au/

26. Basic Skills Employers say they would like new entrants into the workforce to have certain basic skills. These have been summarised into eight categories and go by the name of Employability Skills.

27. What are the Employability Skills? • Team work – understanding one’s own role in a team, capacity to work harmoniously and productively with others. • Communication – displaying effective listening and understanding, speaking clearly and directly, being assertive and persuasive.

28. Employability Skills • Problem-solving –ability to apply a range of strategies to solve problems. • Technology – able to master various forms of technology in the workplace. Have a basic understanding of word processing, and Internet/email usage etc.

29. Employability Skills • Planning and organisation –managing priorities by setting time lines, coordinating tasks and working systematically. • Self-management – having clear goals, evaluating one’s own performance and taking responsibility for allocated tasks.

30. Employability Skills. • Learning – proactive involvement in training and learning opportunities in the workplace as well educational settings. • Initiative/enterprise – ability to adapt to change and translate ideas into action. .

31. What can you do? • Take notice of your child’s activities both in and out of school and support your child’s interests and skill development. • Encourage your child to participate in voluntary, casual or part time work so skills and work practices can be learned.

32. What can you do? • Assist in the development of their self esteem by asking them to share how they achieved something. This will help them to see their own strengths.

33. What can you do? • Expose you child to resources and advice to enable them to collect information about education and the world of work • Encourage your child to keep their options open – the broader the range they consider the more likely they are to find one that works for them.

34. What can you do? • Go with them to Career Expos and Open Days • Be realistic when discussing career options with your child and be sure to listen to what they have to say. (Listen with your body as well as your mind) • Changing careers is perfectly acceptable – don’t make your child feel they are making a life long decision now. Sourced from parents as career partners workshop manual (Department of Education & Training) Western Australia

35. End of Week One

36. Week 2Career and Transition • School study options VET, VCAL and VCE • Try before you buy –Work Experience and Structure Workplace learning • School based Apprenticeships and Traineeships • Career services at your school /Pathways plans • Surf the Web • Value of ongoing learning

37. Doing Planning Preparation Exploration Awareness Career DevelopmentA model of Career Development Sourced from parents as career partners workshop manual (Department of Education & Training) Western Australia

38. Awareness Need to spend some time identifying: interests values skills abilities, and then Explore possible matches

39. Exploration A time to take what you know about yourself and look for matches in the world of work Some ways to do this: • Look at occupational categories to see which jobs might need the qualities and attributes you already have • Look at your qualities and attributes and see how they might transfer to a range of occupational categories. • Investigate what a job needs so that you can direct your learning or develop your attributes to expand your options. (skill or training)

40. Senior school options • Victorian Certificate of Education –VCE • Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning - VCAL • Vocational Education and Training – VET Summary on page 19 in the workbook

41. VCE • Senior Certificate that provides a pathway to further study at University or TAFE or to work • Generally undertaken by students in Years 11 and 12 although some schools allow students to do one or two subjects in year 10. • Minimum 16 units over the two years. English must be part of the selection.

42. What subjects to choose? Subjects that: • You enjoy • You are good at • Reflect what you are interested in studying at tertiary level, if you know. (see VTAC and TAFE guides) • Help provide you with more career options if you are uncertain Look at Choice! VTAC print out, especially from page 12-19 with particular attention to Kris on page 18.

43. What is VCAL? Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning • Senior Certificate for Students in years 11 and 12 that offers hands on practical learning. • Offers wider range of curriculum choices for young peoplewho in the past might not have continued at school • Designed to develop skills and knowledge for personal and social development and enhance students’ employment chances

44. VCAL Three award levels • FOUNDATION • INTERMEDIATE • SENIOR

45. The VCAL Curriculum Strands • Literacy & Numeracy Skills (LNS) • Industry Specific Skills (ISS) • Work Related Skills (WRS) • Personal Development Skills (PDS)

46. VCAL Course A VCAL course may contain curriculum components drawn from: • VCAL units from the curriculum strands (LNS, ISS, WRS and PDS) • VCE units (including VET in the VCE programs) • Other VET curriculum or Training Packages • Further Education accredited curriculum

47. VET in schools • It allows a student to complete a vocational certificate whilst doing either their VCE or VCAL. • VET in Schools programs are typically delivered through partnership between schools, industry and training providers • Often include opportunities for students to participate in workplace learning. • Each school decides on the VET subjects they will offer their students

48. Why do VCAL?

49. Interest in staying at school

50. VCAL Pathways VCAL Employment Apprenticeship/ Traineeship VCE Certificates, Diploma or Advanced Diploma Degrees