A new $2 million one-stop-shop resource to help students find emerging career options was unveiled at a maritime high school in Adelaide’s west today.
The Malinauskas Labor Government is committed to giving students better careers education and information about growth industries so they can understand and pursue opportunities available here in South Australia, including defence and advanced manufacturing.
MyCareerPortal, accessed via the Student Pathways website, helps students to explore career options and make informed choices about their learning and post-school pathways.
It provides:
*Information about key industries, including required VET and higher education pathways and average salaries. This includes a new virtual job experience hub to better understand different industries.
*Easier access to employers to take on work experience opportunities.
*A diagnostic tool to assess personality and learning styles to key careers.
*A new career planning tool to better help students into their desired pathway.
The tool will have a focus on promoting careers in defence such as engineers, coders and cybersecurity or in advanced manufacturing such as electricians, boilermakers and gas fitters, as well as in demand fields such as early childcare, construction or education.
The career portal was launched at Le Fevre High School which has the state’s Maritime STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) specialisation – with Year 10, 11 and 12 courses for students in maritime operations, naval architecture and engineering.
MyCareerPortal is also available for students outside of school so that they can share their career exploration, discovery and planning activities with their parents and carers.
MyCareerPortal has been developed for South Australian government schools by online company Year13.
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Attributable to Susan Close
There are many exciting job prospects for young people in South Australia, particularly in the defence sector, and providing quality career education and guidance is central to preparing them to share in South Australia’s economic prosperity.
The opportunity to research and discover new and exciting career pathways will lead to many meaningful job opportunities for students at LeFevre High School.
Attributable to Blair Boyer
Improving careers education is something that is often raised with me – and this new tool for students will go a long way to giving the better support needed.
Quality career education and guidance programs in schools empowers students to explore career pathways and make meaningful choices for their lives beyond high school.
Now is the time to start giving students better careers advice and information about the defence industry given the high quality, secure jobs that will be available for the next generation of South Australians.
It’s important to recognise that university is not the only option for students leaving school – there are a myriad of options for our young people, we just need to make them more available and accessible.
Attributable to LeFevre High School Principal Kirri Minnican
The MyCareerPortal will be a valuable resource for students to explore a range of career options and enables them to be involved in virtual work experience activities, making it accessible for everyone.
Virtual and interactive career education is both exciting and worthwhile for students when making decisions for their future.
Attributable to Year13 Co-founder & Co-CEO Saxon Phipps
We are very proud to be working with the South Australian Government on this initiative.
We know that online career focused resources can make a big difference to the planning and preparation of young people for their life after school.
We are excited to have worked with the Department for Education to adapt our Career Tools platform in line with the Student Pathways initiative to launch the MyCareerPortal.
