WHAT

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WHATS IN IT FOR ME?

• Some reasons for completing Year 12

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What do YOU want out of life?

• Possessions decent car, house, tv/sound
  system.?
• Good relationship, start your own family?
• A good lifestyle/social life?
• A good job?
• .?

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What do I need to get there?

• A job that satisfies you, has opportunities for
  you to use your skills, has the opportunity for
  promotion, offers good pay has been shown to have
  a positive effect on
• Relationships
• Physical and mental health on the individual AND
  their spouse/children
• Financial stability
• The better jobs usually require more skills and
  training than you can get at school

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How much do I need to earn?

• Rent 150 (or loan repayments, water, rates)
• Food 100
• Power gas/ electricity 15
• Clothes ....
• Phone internet 25
• Travel e.g. train, bus OR car (repayments, fuel,
  repairs)
• Entertainment e.g. going out, drinks
• Reality check Approx. 74 15-19 yr. earn less
  than 250 per week, and only 5.5 more than 400!
  An old age pensioner gets 285 per week.

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Improving your occupational status AND earnings

• University increase by 30 ( rapid promotion)
• Apprenticeships increase by 20
• TAFE University by 20
• TAFE diploma by 14
• Traineeship by 8 TAFE certificate 5
• Employment small increase based on increasing
  experience and age
• 
  ACER Longitudinal Survey
  of Australian Youth Research Report 55- Nov.2008

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WHAT QUALIFICATIONS DO I NEED?

• Current qualifications within Australia of
  15-64 population
• University qualifications 20.0
• VET qualifications 29.9
• No qualifications 50.1
• Potential qualifications pathways for jobs of
  employment
• University pathways 24.0
• VET pathways 62.3
• No qualifications 13.7
• Source Megan Lilley AIGroup

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Some impacts of NOT fully engaged

• Rather than simply becoming dissatisfied with
  their income, future career direction or the work
  they do,young people who are in (part-time work,
  unemployment or have withdrawn from the labour
  force) report decreased satisfaction with their
  social lives, their use of spare time, their
  independence and their lives as a whole.
• Life Satisfaction of Young AustraliansLSAY
  Research Report 43. Kylie Hillman

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A further word of caution

• Many of these are part-time and/or casual jobs,
  provide low level of income, and may finish up at
  any time giving no feeling of security
• They MAY meet the requirements of short-term
  cash, but.
• Do they lead to anything that will help you meet
  your lifestyle goals???

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HOW CAN I DO BETTER THAN THIS?

• Talk to your Careers Pathways advisors.
• They can show you a much wider range of
  interesting jobs than you have probably thought
  of and how to
• See what education skills you need
• Improve your skills
• Improve your employability
• Show different ways of reaching your goal
• End of show Thanks for your attention. Any
  questions??

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TALK OVER YOUR IDEAS WITH SOMEONE WHO
KNOWS!!!START WITH YOUR CAREERS and MIPS
TEACHERS

• WEBSITE HELP
• For a one-stop shop
• www.bmllen.com.au

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1980s

• Mostly full-time jobs
• Jobs for life one career path (e.g. banks, the
  SEC, the Post Office with mail and phone
  services)
• Lots of manual labour type jobs
• For most people, learning stopped when you left
  school

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Technology Revolution-late 1980s into 1990s

• Computers take off in the workplace, and the PC
  becomes significant
• The internet starts www becomes known
• Easy, cheap overseas communication
• Greater access to knowledge
• The market place and the stock exchanges are
  globalised the rise of the multi-national
  corporation (e.g. Rupert Murdoch, McDonalds)

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Resulting changes1.Huge increase in business
competition from companies outside the local area

• This leads to
• More casual work
• More part-time work
• Less full-time work
• More contract work
• Less manual labour work
• More knowledge and skilled workers

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