Did you know there is now an official "National Career Development Week"? Yep! From 2 - 8 June. All over Australia Schools and tertiary providers will be running events to help people learn more about careers today.
We put our thinking hats on and thought of what would be some fun things we wish we had going on at our school when we were there (all them years ago!!) to help us learn more about careers today. This is what we came up with.....which ones do you like?
NATIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT WEEK
Some easy & effective activities to run at your school:
Even if all you have is some lunchtimes, morning roll-call or afternoon time slots, there is still a lot you can do….
· Your “event crew”! Ask for a group of students who are interested in running events, like big comps, or weddings or the like, to come and get together to run some activities for career week with you. They would get to see what it is like to run an event!
· Themed guest speakers or panels of guest speakers at lunch each day (Themes could be: fashion, journalism & writing, sports, small business, doctors/lawyers/dentists, but give them a cool name). You can use your past students here. To keep the interest up and to have the students generating the interest themselves, ask a different student each day to be the MC who introduces and thanks the guest speakers, and gets the students asking questions.
· Sure fire way of getting students involved – make a competition out of it! Possible house career competitions that can run all week and contribute to the overall house points running in the school. Or individual competitions with cool prizes will also work:
o Write a Career quiz each day that is handed out and completed in Form time and submitted to your Careers Centre. You can then announce the winners at morning assembly. Some of the questions could involve students asking teachers questions about their careers, or going online to find out average starting salaries of certain jobs, and required experiences to get into a certain industry. Of course winners are awarded house points or small personal prizes!
o A group of students from each house/grade could source someone interesting to interview about their careers (a past student, someone they know etc). These interviews could be done as written or via another media (video, mp3 etc). The best of these interviews are chosen, and then they are shown at lunch time on the Friday to all of the school. This whole process could be taken on by your English department and students complete a module of their curriculum while preparing videos for Career Development Week.
o Guess the 1st job that your principal and vice principal had – this helps students to see that you have to start somewhere, and everyone has very varied career paths these days. Have a running record of everyone’s guesses somewhere in the school where everyone can see it. Then announce the winning guess and points again go to houses or a personal prize is awarded.
o House/Group debate on a career topic (like Does the Glass Ceiling Still Exist Today for women! Or Does school prepare you for Careers Today!) during a lunch time.
· Teachers could be encouraged to use in class time to tell the students their career story. Students could try and guess their 1st jobs!
· Run career tips over the PA during the week
· Run a jobs market at one lunch time, where all of the real and current casual and part time jobs available in suburbs located close to your school are displayed for students to look through and apply for. Have some assistants there to help the students work out the best ways to apply for the jobs. You could make this part of class time as well for commerce.
· Staff vs student debate on a career topic (like does the glass ceiling still exist today for women!) during a lunch time.
· Mock Interview Panels: Either during lunch or specific class time a mock interview panel is set up for students to test their interviewing skills.
· Job Interview Skills – The What, Why & How of WOWing them in job interviews.
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