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"School careers advice is stuck in the past" - Financial Review

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DrDusk:

--- Quote from: Aaron on September 19, 2019, 06:32:51 pm ---I think  there definitely needs to be more emphasis earlier on in terms of elective choices as exploration of potential areas rather than just doing elective x y or z for the sake of it. Year 9 and 10 is a crucial time period for students for a number of reasons - electives mentioned along with work experience and careers counselling. More has to be put into these two year levels to at least get some interests flowing for each student - it might reduce the 'what the hell do I pick' thoughts.

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This is so so so true. They could start by removing the atrocity of having English as a compulsory subject.

K888:
I personally had a very different experience with my careers counsellor in high school.
We were always told that your ATAR was just one of the keys to the front door but that there were many other keys and also many back doors (bit of a weird analogy tbh haha). And we had frequent talks from the careers counsellor during VCE, especially in year 12. I think we also had to meet with them once a term to discuss what we were thinking for post year 12 and I found them to be super helpful. You could send an email anytime or drop by the office and have any questions answered. There was also often info you couldn't find on course websites so our careers counsellor would get in contact with the unis/organisations and get an answer from them. The counsellor also organised for people to come from different professions and talk about their pathway into their job and what they do and stuff.

I think I was very lucky to have such a good careers counsellor who was so involved with students but I realise not everyone is so fortunate. I think careers counselling is a really important thing that should be focused on more in all schools.

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