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OTHER CAREER LINKS
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We've collected together many additional links for you to use. They are listed below. Amongst them, you'll find a wide variety of information - everything from how to plan a Small Business, to Employment Services, to the home pages of Professional Organisations and Businesses.
You'll also find links to the Australian Job Guide and other career sites designed especially for young people. In the Career Help section you'll also find some sites that give career information about particular industries and professions.
| CAREER HELP | |
| Australian Job Guide | myfuture |
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More than 2000 jobs are described and you can check out the education and training requirements for the listed jobs. |
This is the best place to start if you are researching anything t do with employment, education or training. A joint initiative of Commonwealth, State and Territory governments, this site gives facts about occupations, salaries, courses, your own region, industries, contact organisations. You can access articles and activities like How to Get a Job, How to Start your own Business, Working Overseas. Access your personal career decision making tool! |
| CAREERS connectED | Youth Central |
There are so many choices! Take a look a the various industries to get an idea about your future careers options and where you would like to head. Access more career resources and search for the latest information available. |
youthcentral is the Victorian Government's web-based initiative for young people aged 12-25, filled to overflowing with great information and articles about:
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| The Source | Discover your perfect career quiz |
| Commonwealth government site for youth - topics include getting a job and careers, youth health issues and a youth survey so you can tell the government what things are important to you. There are loads of useful links at The Source. | This quick and easy quiz is provided by Monster.com |
| Career Prospects | Employment Prospects for University Graduates |
| The Commonwealth Government's Jobsearch site has a section that deals with job prospects. It also gives excellent industry profiles (especially useful for Industry & Enterprise students!) and information about weekly earnings. | Gradlink produces information about the employment prospects of graduates, their earnings, and their level of satisfaction with their university experience, aimed at assisting course and careers advisers in their work. |
| Australian Worksite for Schools | Jobjuice |
| Worksite for schools is designed by the ACTU for students because work is important stuff and there's a lot to find out about it. But there's more to Worksite for schools than just career choices or vocational information - because work is so much more than that! | Developed by the Commonwealth Dept of Employment and Workplace Relations to provide fast convenient access to a range of online services and information espeacially designed for school leavers. Features include a Career Quiz, JobSearch, Job Outlook |
| OZJAC | Australian Workplace |
| OZJAC is available for student use at CCB. Visit this site to find out more about this programme. The site will also tell you how you can access OZJAC from your home. | Careers, Training, Job Outlook - Everything you want to know about the WorkPlace in one place - a Commonwealth Government Initiative |
| CAREERS INFORMATION ABOUT PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES | |
| Aerospace Careers | Arts & Entertainment Training |
| Automotive Apprenticeships & Traineeships- VACC | Banking & Finance Careers |
| Building and Construction Industry | Building & Property Careers |
| Building Careers | Chartered Accounting |
| Computing/IT Careers | CSIRO Careers |
| Defence Force Careers | Electrotechnology Careers |
| Film TV and Digital Media Careers | |
| Finance Careers | Freight, Transport & Logistics Careers |
| Freight, Transport & Distribution Careers | Food Industry Careers |
| Health & Community Services Careers | Info Tech & Telecommunications Careers |
| Law Careers | Mathematics Careers |
| Medical Careers | Microbiology Careers |
| Nursing in Victoria | Physics Careers |
| Printing/Graphics Careers | |
| Retail Careers | Rural Industry Careers |
| Science Careers | Careers in SCIENCE! |
| Service Skills - Tourism, Hospitality, Sport, Fitness, Community & Outdoor Rec, Retail, Hairdressing, Beauty, Funeral Services, Floristry and Community Pharmacy | |
| Teaching in Victoria | |
| Technology & Manufacturing | Manufacturing Careers - Make it! |
| Why study a Language other than English? | Tourism & Hospitality Careers |
| Arts degrees - why study Arts at Monash? | Arts degrees - what careers - why study Arts at Melbourne? |
| If you are looking for information about a particular industry, a good place to start is with the relevant Industry Training Advisory Board. | |
| SITES FOR JOBSEEKERS | |
| Australian Job Search | mycareer.com.au |
| This is the Commonwealth Government's official job search site. Check it daily for new job vacancies and use it to get all sorts of job seeking assistance. | As well as advertising job vacancies, this site also has handy hints for jobseekers and workers. Use it to discover the sorts of things that employers are looking for when they recruit staff - and to learn more about the types of jobs that are out there in the job market. |
| My first job - Valuable resources for people starting out | Jobseeking - Take a positive approach |
| The ACTU provides excellent resources for young people starting out in employment. You can find these at: www.worksite.actu.asn.au/your-first-job/get-the-right-pay.aspx | myfuture has some great advice for people starting out trying to find employment for the first time. Click here for more information |
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Job Outlook |
| This is a great site for job seekers. As well as listing job vacancies, it also suggests effective job seeking strategies, including advice about application letters, resumes and interviews. You'll find a section where you can create your own resume. There's also a section that gives advice about choosing the right career that even contains a quick vocational interest test that you can complete. | Job Outlook - Everything you want to know about occupations in Australia is on this site. Find out about job prospects, weekly earnings, type of work and other information useful for anyone interested in employment. |
| Gradlink | The Monster Board |
| Gradlink is a new interactive system which uses the Internet to link university graduates with potential employers. |
Another job search site that has online jobs, job application and resume advice |
| ADVICE FOR WORKERS |
| WorkChoices |
Under WorkChoices, minimum wages for employees covered by the federal system are no longer included in awards. They are now protected in Australian Pay and Classification Scales, which form part of the Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard.Information about how the new pay scales apply to people in the federal system is provided in pay scale summaries. They provide rates of pay and other relevant information. You should read pay scales in conjunction with the relevant award as certain clauses and provisions in the award may also apply to you. At this stage only some of the 3300 awards have summaries available. Further summaries will be added progressively. Note that some of the recently published summaries have been updated. To find the pay scale summary that applies to you, you need to know the title of the award you are covered by. If you know what this is you can browse the summaries. If you are not sure, call the WorkChoices Infoline on 1300 363 264. |
| JobWatch | Wagenet |
| Job Watch is a community legal centre specialising in employment and training law. Look here to find out about your rights at work and for information about job hunting traps and termination of employment. | WageNet provides wages and conditions of employment information for jobs Australia wide.. |
| UNIVERSITY GRADUATES - DESTINATION INFORMATION |
| Graduate Destinations and Starting Salaries |
| Find out what happens when people leave university. How many get employed full-time? How many go on to further study? What are the starting salaries for graduates from different types of courses? |
| VOLUNTEER WORK | |
| Volunteer Resource Centre Bendigo | |
| Bendigo Volunteer Resource Centre is a vital link between the community and the organisations which rely on volunteers.Bendigo Volunteer Resource Centre matches volunteers to not-for-profit organisations with some amazing and sometimes life-changing results. | |
| Volunteer Search Australia | Volunteer Employment in Victoria |
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organisations employ volunteer workers? You can also look here for information about a huge range of volunteer organisations, from groups that work in environment protection to groups that work in disaster relief. If you're looking for a volunteer support organisation, you just might find it here |
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| BUSINESS and INDUSTRY ORGANISATIONS | |
| Australian Companies and Businesses | Business Victoria |
| Use this site to search for manufacturers, wholesalers and service businesses | The site is provided by the State Government of Victoria. It aims to give advice about how to start up and manage a business |
| Australian Industry Group | Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) |
| Australia's leading industry organisation representing ten thousand employers in manufacturing, construction, automotive, telecommunications, IT, transport, labour hire and other industries. | Victoria's peak employer body and one of Australia's largest multi-industry employer associations |
| Australian Manufacturers Guide | Yellow Pages |
| Use this site to search for companies by category | This is a great way to search for employers by industry category or by type of work. It is especially good if you are trying to look for work experience ideas |
| PROFESSIONAL CAREERS ASSOCIATIONS |
| Careers Education Association of Victoria | Australian Association of Careers Counsellors |
VCAA and OTHER LINKS |
| Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) | EdNA (Education Network Australia) |
| Dusseldorp Skills Forum | National Institute of Labour Studies |
| HELP FOR YEAR 10 STUDENTS |
| Guide to the VCE, VCAL, School Based New Apprenticeships | Do you enjoy or are you good at? Posters that link occupations with school subjects A series of posters designed to help students link occupations they're interested in with subjects they study at school |
Students in Yr 10 in 2009 need to check pre-requisite requirements for University/TAFE entry in 2012 VTAC produces a publication called "VICTER" each year that sets out the entry requirements and pre-requisite studies for tertiary entry. CCB provides every Yr 10 student with a copy of this publication. The publication is also available online. Many tertiary institutions also produce their own publications specifically for Year 10 students and links to some of them are provided below. |
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| La Trobe University - Yr 10 Help | Deakin University - Yr 10 Help |
| Monash University - Yr 10 Help | RMIT - Yr 10 Help |
| Swinburne University - Yr 10 Help | University of Ballarat - Yr 10 Help |
| Victoria University - Guide for Year 10 Students | University of Melbourne - The New Melbourne Model |
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If you want to suggest any other information that we could include here, please contact us careers@ccb.vic.edu.au |