Parents
School and Beyond is an organisation that can assist you and your son or daughter begin their journey beyond school if you live in the Adelaide Hills and Murraylands. The journey you may have traveled in your and your parents working life may have only consisted of a few different jobs or perhaps only one.
For your son or daughter it is a different world, a world in which they can expect to have up to 25 different jobs and more than one occupation. They can also expect to enter and exit training multiple times along the way as they either re-train, update or advance their knowledge. They can expect that industries around today will evolve and jobs currently available will be gone. But as industries evolve they can also expect to have access to jobs in the future that don’t even exist today.
This means that the definition of a career has changed from "one job" to a complex journey of changing jobs, changing roles, changing careers, periods of underemployment and unemployment and learning new skills. This lifelong career for your son or daughter will evolve as they develop and increase awareness of themselves and emerging opportunities, and as society changes and evolves to reveal those new opportunities.
The challenge for young people is having the skills to "manage" their career so that they can constantly adjust to the inevitable change and make good decisions along the way.This web-site will provide you with some useful links and information to help you help your son or daughter begin managing their journey whether they are still at school or have already left.
Need some help on learning how to help your son or daughter manage their career?
How to give kids career advice
Is your son or daughter looking for some professional career development advice?
Murraylands Career Development Centre
Wanting ideas on careers, further study or employment for your son of daughter?
Information on careers, training, employment and apprenticeships
Parents talking career choices
Is your son or daughter leaving school?
Year 12 What Next?Is your son or daughter still at school and looking for a Vocational Education and Training (VET) option?
Would your son or daughter benefit from gaining some more life experience?
Is your son or daughter interested in running a business?
Enterprise Network for Young Australians (ENYA) - supporting young people in business
National Innovation Website - young people and innovation
Does your son or daughter need some ideas about selling themselves to employers including resume writing?
Identifying skills, knowledge and interests
Do you live in a rural setting and are looking for support for your son or daughter?
Young Australian Rural Network
Want to know about your son or daughters rights and responsibilities in the workplace?
Is your son or daughter having problems?