CAREERS DAY

CAREERS DISCOVERY DAY

A number of Old Geelong Grammarians returned to the School to mentor Year 10 students at our annual Careers Discovery Day on Sunday 19 June. The OGGs talked to students and parents about their careers since leaving school, providing invaluable‘real life’ information aboutsubject selection, university courses and career paths. Each provided a unique insider’s perspective of their chosen career, exposing students to an incredibly broad cross-section of career paths, from architect Olivia Wetherall (EM’13), personal injury layer Maddi McLean (A’12) and clinical embryologist Celia Talbot (Harbridge, A’08) to senior project engineer Jack Merrin (Fr’07), real estate sales consultant Jack Edgar (M’15) and business management lecturer/tutor Parker Rettke (A’12).

This year's guest speaker for Year 10 students and parents was social researcher Ashley Fell, who spoke about the changing nature of the workplace and the future of work for generation alpha. Running simultaneously in the Cook Theatre, Andrew Swan (Fr'07) delivered a 'University 101' session for the School's Year 11 and Year 12 students. Andrew is Principal of Mannix College at Monash University, having previously been Program Director of the Tuckwell Scholarship at ANU and College Head at Campbell Hall at Monash.

The format of the day was re-imagined in 2022, with panel discussions taking place in various classrooms and performance spaces within the School of Performing Arts and Creative Education (the SPACE), whilst a University Expo was held in the Jeremy Kirkwood Foyer – it was wonderful to see a number of recent graduates return to speak to our Year 11 and Year 12 about their tertiary institution and/or residential college.