Careers Update

It has been great to welcome students back to the new school year! There is a wide range of Careers-related activities planned for 2022. In this edition of the newsletter I will focus on just two, with more to come in the future!

The Shellharbour Anglican College Careers website is found at shellharbouraccareers.com and it is where you will find information on topics such as the HSC, ROSA, University Admission, apprenticeships and traineeships, work experience, and job and career information. For parents of teenage children, I would particularly like to draw your attention to the section on “Helping your teen with Career Planning”. This will help you to support your child to work out who they are and what is important to them; work out where they want to go; work out how they will get there; and put their plan into action!

Is your child creative and do they have lots of ideas? If yes, then they may be interested in signing up for the new cocurricular program on offer for 2022: Entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneurship Cocurricular Program allows students to plan and design initiatives to develop a possible product or service. Students will go through the testing process to bring their ideas to life whilst learning the basic concepts of a start-up business. The program will provide a variety of activities that incorporate the foundations of problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, and public speaking, which are all valuable skills. Students will have the option of entering a competition held in October by the Zig Zag Hub to pitch their idea to a panel of local business professionals with prizes to be given for best ideas and pitches. The program will run over 15 weeks during Terms 2 and 3 on Tuesday afternoons from 3.45-4.45pm with an entrepreneur coach. The program is also supported by mentors in programming and business expertise. It will initially be open to Senior School students, with the possibility of this expanding to Junior School students in the future. More information about the Entrepreneurship Cocurricular Program will be available in coming weeks. Let me know if you have any questions – I am happy to help!

Mrs Cheryl Brennan
Careers Advisor