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Career Connections RMIT facilitates a suite of projects designed
to promote greater connections between industry and schools.
The broad aim of this collaborative work is to help improve
outcomes for young people and to meet the future skill needs of
industry. These projects are often supported by other partners such
as local government and training organisations.
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These projects include:
1. Our Local
World of Work
This is a project which involves a student investigation of a local
business. The central activity is a student interview of a manager
in a local business. In 2008, 290 students from 18 classes
participated in Our Local World of Work.
In 2009, the central event will be replaced by local school,
cluster or regional events organised by a project officer and
members of the school cohort.
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2.
Face To Face
This is a project which involves an individual student interview
with a member of the work force. Nine schools involving some 150
students expressed interest in doing this project. Face To Face is
seen as a complementary and/or alternative project to Our Local
World Of Work. This project is ongoing across the year.
3.
Hands On Health
This is an exciting new collaborative project between Career
Connections RMIT and the School of Health Sciences RMIT. 180
students from six schools will participate in interactive, hands-on
activities provided by the six divisions of Health Sciences RMIT;
Chinese Medicine, Nursing and Midwifery, Osteopathy, Chiropractic,
Psychology and Disability Studies.
The event will be conducted on July 17, 2009 at RMIT university,
Bundoora West campus.
4.
Aroma
Another new project is ‘Aroma’, an adopt-a- school project which
will train students in the skills of coffee making. Single schools
will be ‘paired’ with a coffee manufacturing business in the
Darebin, Whittlesea or Nillumbik regions. As well as receiving
basic coffee-making skills students will research aspects of the
coffee industry and prepare for a coffee-making event.
5.
Real Industry Interviews
Personnel from businesses conduct ‘real life’ interviews with
students in a central location. As preparation, students are
required to find suitable job advertisements, write letters of
applications and submit resumes to the interviewers. In 2009, the
interview day will be on October 22nd at the Darebin Arts and
Entertainment Centre, in Preston.
6. WEP (Work Experience
Preparation)
The LCP will organise and run Work Experience preparation sessions
for schools. The session includes positive and negative aspects of
work; work experience procurement; personal skills and attributes;
scenarios in the work place and a summary of employability skills.
For further information on the above projects contact:
Robert King
phone: 9925 7245
email: robert.king@rmit.edu.au
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