Senior : Careers
Welcome to the section on the Knox website dedicated to careers education. As much of the information relating to careers is in hard copy form or on other websites, the aim of this section is to serve as a point of coordination for that information and direct students and parents to the appropriate place to access it. New material will be added as it becomes available so please visit on a regular basis.Careers Contact
The Knox Careers Program
The program provides excellent resources to encourage and assist students with planning for their career. The Careers Office (PC32A) is located on the 2nd Floor of the Paterson Centre and is open each lunchtime and after school. Appointments are available before school by arrangement.
Careers education is concerned with the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes through learning experiences which help students make informed decisions about school and post-school options and enable effective participation in working life. Careers education is not a one-off event but part of a lifelong process. The aim of careers education is to make students aware of this process and equip them to make decisions with regard to post-school options.
The outcomes of career education at Knox are designed to develop key capabilities among students to allow them to:
- Make informed decisions based on self-knowledge.
- Make informed decisions based on effective use of careers information and guidance.
- Make and implement action plans.
- Develop and use key skills.
- Learn through experience of a range of work, business and community related activities.
- Identify their effective use of self-knowledge, information and guidance, action planning, key skills and experiences in a range of contexts.
Careers Calendar
The service offers a full and ever-expanding calendar of events, incorporating opportunities as the school is informed of them. Because of the changing nature of the calendar, students are advised to keep themselves informed by regularly looking at the careers' noticeboard and checking The Knoxonian each week.
Activities
Vocational Guidance
A comprehensive range of career guidance services is available from the Careers Office, with an overview of almost 600 different jobs and computerised detail of almost 13,000 different tertiary courses available in Australia.
Careers Resource Centre Work
Work includes obtaining, displaying and lending up-to-date and comprehensive information, the use of referencing and other means to make material accessible as well as using a range of graphic, computer and other media for engaging students in research.
Face-to-Face Careers Work
This includes interviewing and counselling students and parents as well as negotiating with students.
Working With Information About Students
The Centre collects and uses assessment results, test information and other reports, undertakes student-centred review and prepares individual action plans.
Specialist Career Education
In consultation with other relevant departments, the Centre designs and runs a careers education program enabling participative use of learning resources by students and "whole person" learning in career education.
Community-Linked Careers
Anchoring the program in the community, the Centre informs and liaises with parents, employers and other clients, including using community-based contacts, locations and activities as partners.
Other Services
The Centre provides information on a wide range of careers including job descriptions, prospects for advancement, training/qualifications required, methods of entry, vocational testing regarding career aptitudes/interests, details of most tertiary educational courses offered nationally via university, TAFE and private institutions, their entry requirements, subject pre-requisites etc. Also available is information about financial assistance to students (including Austudy), scholarships and cadetships (including how to research the market) and details of university and college open days. Assistance is given in preparing resumes, job applications and scholarship applications, career choice as well as in instruction regarding interview techniques.
Help in vocational guidance advice and testing is provided via "Career Voyager", a computer-based program. This can be used to help with subject choice as well as structuring career or tertiary choices to maximise future job flexibility and alternatives. Assistance is given with regard to interstate university applications and the Universities' Admissions Centre (UAC) procedure as well as the preparation of career bulletins and refining and improving interview techniques.
Lunch-time Career Seminars
Throughout the year a series of lunchtime seminars, presented by employers and tertiary institutions, is conducted to provide interested students with in-depth information regarding various careers, tertiary institutions or specific employers.
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