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Self-Insight Before you can choose the right career, you must learn about yourself. Your values, interests, soft skills, and aptitudes, in combination with your personality type, make some occupations a good fit for you and others completely inappropriate. Year 10 students complete the Morrisby Vocational Assessment and have subsequent one-to-one counselling sessions to set the foundation for optimistic pathway planning.
Learning Beyond Toorak Partnering with LinkedIn Learning, our girls can enhance and extend their learning. With over 10,000 online courses for our senior students to access, they are able to explore their careers short-list, or fast track their knowledge in areas that are critical to their aspirations and employability.
She Has a Plan AND THE SKILLS TO EXECUTE IT ‘So, what do you want to do after school?’ said every adult, ever. The truth is, our career is a significant component of our daily lives, and the idea of choosing one can be daunting. With the development of our Student Futures Program, our graduates are making informed choices for University and beyond, and finding the fusion of where potential, passion and curiosity meet. The program centres around these four pillars:
Career Inspiration Guided by the mantra ‘you can’t be, what you can’t see,’ the Empower Network was launched so that VCE students can connect with Toorak Collegians. Via face-to-face events and a private online group on LinkedIn, students are able to network directly with Alumni who work in their field of interest. They use this platform to ask questions and secure work shadowing, internships and even employment.
Career Resilience Before graduating, students prepare LinkedIn profiles and receive individualised support for an effective transition from school to the world of work. These workshops focus on decision making, job search and application, interview skills and networking. Mrs Bianca New Student Futures Specialist
