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January 2008
Defence gap year outstanding success
Defence has filled almost all 700 positions offered in its inaugural gap year program, which was 'shaping up as an outstanding success', Defence Minister Warren Snowdon says.
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The best and worst companies of 2007
In looking at the best companies for 2008, there have of course been some wonderful mining performances, although many of those reflect the strong resources market.
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Job opportunities going begging
Central West Group Apprentices (CWGA) is having a fruitless search for applicants to take up some apprenticeship and traineeship opportunities in the Young area.
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November 2007
NLC pledge on apprentice plan
With unemployment and inadequate housing housing major problems in communities, teaching apprentice builders would allow indigenous people to address these issues themselves.
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Whose education revolution is it?
After the 2007 election, there’s no better time for us all to put our 'principles' to one side and closely examine what is happening to education in Australia and what lies in store for this country’s
future.
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Cash, sweeteners fail to boost teacher intake
State Government measures to recruit extra teachers have failed to attract more students to sign up for postgraduate education courses next year.
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April 2005
Dental Therapists Make A Great Impression
Dental therapy is a relatively new profession that is fast expanding. It is a great career for people who enjoy working with children and the community. Because of a major workforce shortage, it is also a profession with a 100% employment rate.
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March 2004
Latest Apprenticeship Trends
New research shows "traditional apprenticeships" in trades such as carpentry and plumbing remain a major employment choice for young men.
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December 2003
This Bright Spark Wired For Success
As a 17 year old HSC student at Carlingford High School in NSW, Tony Oliver has always wanted to be an electrician. Now this young apprentice seems wired for success.
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October 2003
The Associate Degree- A New Qualification
A new higher education qualification - the associate degree - is now part of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF).
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Study Breather Good For Teens Soul
Some of them will strike it lucky, but for thousands of Australian teenagers, choosing the right university degree next year will be a hit and miss process.
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New Guidelines For School-Based Apprenticeships
New national guidelines are now available at ANTA for school-based New Apprenticeships.
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September 2003
Young Talent Spotter Turns Draft Hopeful
Eighteen year old Harry Miller spends his days helping identifying those with raw sporting talent as part of his AFL SportsReady traineeship but now the gifted footy player is under the microscope himself.
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Technology Roadmap Takes Shape for Industry
Automated buildings, wireless personal area networks, radio frequency identity tags. They’re all part of the technological road ahead for Australian industry and a new report says we need to start planning now.
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August 2003
WOW - Wider Opportunities for Women...
Did you know that women - on average - still earn less than men in Australia?
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Year 12 Gets More Popular
A study of students in their final year of schooling, shows that more students are staying on to complete Year 12, and there is a clear trend towards vocationally oriented subjects.
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Can Cook Duck ....Will Travel
TAFENSW is blowing its own trumpet with good reason. One of its former students has won some serious international recognition.
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Consider ....Tourism and Hospitality as a Career!
Do you like meeting people? Do you like being of service to others? Do you want to travel? Kenvale College of Tourism and Hospitality Management will be holding a Careers Seminar/Open Day on Saturday 13th September 2003.
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What Are Your Chances?
Most students who leave school early find a full-time job, according to a recent study: “School Leavers in Australia: Profiles and Pathways.”
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Unemployment Up - Part Time Jobs Hardest Hit
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that Australia lost 55,200 jobs last month as unemployment rose to 6.2 per cent.
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Calling Year 11 Students - Laptops on offer!
If you are thinking of joining the armed services, then the Australian Defence Force Academy has an educational award with a great prize on offer.
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Taking Off With Group Training
NSW Group Training Trainee of the Year, 20-year-old Jonathon Hewitt, has always been passionate about surfing. Living by his goals and dreams, Jonathon is carving out a successful career in the surfing industry.
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Step to the Future
If you live in Canberra or Melbourne, and are a senior student in Years 10 to 12, looking for inspirational role models, you may want to check out the Step to the Future, youth leadership forums in early September.
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Orchestrated by TAFE
Imagine this. A woman who loved music, but had never so much as learned the recorder, enrolling in a three-year course at Box Hill Institute of TAFE, to write music.
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July 2003
The Cost of Dropping Out
A report by the Business Council of Australia reports that each year 270,000 young people leave school. A third of them leave without completing Year 12. Many go into some form of vocational training.
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Where the jobs are
If you need some help in figuring out what training you should do when you leave school, it might be an idea to have a look at the areas where there are currently job shortages.
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What is it about DANCE Comps?
First Spherion is putting one on at the forthcoming Sydney Morning Herald Careers Expo at Darling Harbour on Friday 8 and Saturday August 9.
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For Soldier, Sailor or fighter pilot jobs...
The Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) in Canberra is holding its annual open day on Saturday August 23, from 9am to 4pm.
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Thinking of Uni? Is it worth it?
The latest survey figures from the Graduate Careers Council of Australia show that that university graduates aged under 25 in their first full-time job - started work on a median salary of $35,500 a year.
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Kid Start Farms - rural training at school.....
Some students just want to work outdoors or in some type of rural industry. So Kid Start Farms offers an alternative pathway for senior school students wanting to gain recognised qualifications by working part-time on a local farm.
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The Way We Work......
Did you know that about one in five men work part-time? Or that more than half the men working more than 49 hours a week want shorter working hours?
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Woman carves her name in history...
Katie Hicks has created NSW history by becoming the state's first female stonemasonry graduate.
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Coles $1000 scholarships.…
This year the big retail food and grocery chain, Coles, is again offering scholarships to school students.
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Here's some info to knock their sox off....
Girls, when you go for your job interview, and you get asked what you have to offer your prospective employer, you might like to cite the recently-proven link between female staff numbers and profitability.
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Putting jobseekers in touch with jobs…
Do you sometimes see jobs advertised in the paper, which never see the light of day in CentreLink or the Federal Government's online recruitment website, Jobsearch?
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NIDA Information Evenings In Melbourne & Canberra
Anyone interested in a making a career backstage in the entertainment industry, and who is considering studying at NIDA is encouraged to attend course information evenings being hosted in Melbourne and Canberra. Admission is free.
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Careers Expos coming your way.…
The 2003 Careers and Employment Expos kicked off in Adelaide last month.
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Scott Cam endorses New Apprenticeships...…
Channel Nine television personality Scott Cam from Backyard Blitz, and renowned Sydney chef Matt Moran, are part of a new advertising campaign highlighting the opportunities offered by New Apprenticeships in traditional trades.
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Getting Started
This year the ACTU has published a book aimed at school students and careers advisors, called GETTING STARTED - a Young Persons Guide to Vocational Education and Training.
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June 2003
Australia goes cheap & casual
A University of Sydney study predicts that one in three Australian workers will be casual employees by the end of the decade.
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Listed Vacancies drop
The Federal Government's Skilled Vacancies Index dropped by 2.1 per cent in May 2003 to 101.0.
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Jobs for the boys, and the girls
The biggest industry sector in Australia - jobwise - is manufacturing, which according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics currently provides a total of 1,024,000 full time jobs.
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Wanted: more women to fill top jobs
Australian employers agree that getting more women into leadership roles is a critical issue…
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Jobs in 'culture' on the rise
Approximately 260,000 people aged 15 years and over (3.1 per cent of all those employed) worked in a cultural occupation as their main job at the time of the 2001 Census, according to figures just by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. (ABS).
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The new hierarchy
George Megalogensis, The Australian (June 12, 2003), 'The open economy is creating new clusters of workers: tertiary-educated, professionals and those who serve them in the officers where they work, and at the restaurants and bars where they play.'
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