Decisions about elective subjects for next year, as much as exams, make the last weeks of school among the most challenging for years 9 and 10 students.
Getting the right advice and knowing what you are good at is crucial, so Hume Whittlesea Local Learning and Employment Network (LLEN) brought together 450
years 9 and 10 students with almost 50 businesses and skills educators at Mount Ridley College in Craigieburn last week.
The college hosted a jobs expo that showcased, among others, fitters and turners, glaziers, welders and plumbers, landscape gardeners and mechanics, hairdressers, beauticians, police and firefighters.
LLEN’s Wendy Mason said a comment from one student summed up the expo: “So many different careers and things we could do when we leave school. I liked it because I got to try things and do stuff, not just be given boring bits of paper.”
