Careers
UC Discovery Day for Year 12 Students only
About this event
Te Rā Tūhura| Discovery Day brings Tau 12 students and teachers from the Ōtautahi Christchurch and Waitaha Canterbury region onto campus to enjoy the opportunity to explore university.
Te Rā Tūhura is your chance to embrace a fun and inspiring experience to explore UC subject choices, discover career pathways, and understand the importance of Year 12 for future opportunities.
- Take part in lectures of your choice and see how your school subjects relate to university
- Discover the differences between school and university
- Learn why university study is valuable
- Explore the support services UC provides
- Find out what’s on offer to UC students.
If you are interested in going to University in 2024, then come to the Careers Office and register your interest or email jkershaw@stbedes.school.nz
Web Design Workshop for senior students in Christchurch, Friday 29 April (last day of holidays)
Are you keen to learn how to design websites?
Whitecliffe are running a FREE ‘Web Design Workshop’ for senior students.
This is a free workshop in the April Holidays, 29 April 2022, 10:00am – 2:00pm at the Whitecliffe Christchurch Campus.
It’s our first time running a bite-size workshop and we have limited spaces so would like to keep for the senior students for this time. If we get a good response we will run some more in the July holidays and will extend this to middle school students
To register please contact Ashyn on ashynw@whitecliffe.ac.nz or 027 809 6262
Zest People – ‘Chart Your Future’ career coaching programme for teens
Zestpeople, a Christchurch based Career Consultancy, offer specialised career coaching programmes to assist students with their career exploration, planning and decision making. With access to innovative New Zealand based career assessment tools and a depth of coaching experience, we are passionate about helping youth identify what really matters to them and applying this insight to identify preferred future career and study options.
With the disruption to learning and all the challenges the senior students have faced over the last couple of years, we’re seeing a heightened need for career support to help them look ahead with greater confidence in the direction they want to head. So April is our month to reach out to as many students as possible and offer discounted rates on our specialised ‘Chart Your Future’ career coaching programmes designed for this age group. This includes two offerings, depending on the level of career support needed:
- Career Discovery Programme
An in-depth programme with a combination of self-assessment tools and specialised career coaching to highlight career interests and link these with the New Zealand employment and tertiary framework. This programme is facilitated within a 2.5 hour coaching session and includes the Career Insight assessment, detailed reports and resources which form the basis of a career plan including careers, goals, study and work options aligned to the identified career values, skills, interests and work preferences. - CareerSmart Programme
Developed as a cost-effective option for students who have identified some career options and want to verify the fit with their career motivators. Students undertake a CareerSmart assessment followed by a 1.5 hour coaching session which includes a CareerSmart report, coaching and interpretation. This programme paves the way for students to apply this insight to their decision making through encouraging ownership and proactive career exploration for greater confidence in their future direction.
We welcome the opportunity to support your students to look forward to exciting and personally motivating career options ahead. We have attached a programme flyer and hope this may be made available to your School Community through your school newsletter to connect your community with our April offering.
Waikato University Open day
Open Days are the perfect chance for your students to get a better idea of what life is like studying at the University of Waikato!
· The Hamilton campus Open Days are on Friday 27th May, 9am - 2pm and Saturday 28th May, 10am - 2pm
· The Tauranga campus Open Days are on Friday 17th June, 9am - 1pm and Saturday 18th June, 10am - 2pm
During our Open Days there are plenty of things to see and do, including:
· Information sessions
· Mini lectures and workshops
· Live entertainment
· Chance to explore the campus
Your students need to register to attend the Open Days.
Your students can register for the Hamilton campus Open Days here.
Your students can register for the Tauranga campus Open Days here.
Student Exchange — online info sessions 27 April & 10 May
We are looking for bright, open-minded, flexible young people who are willing to move outside their comfort zones and who want to learn about the world and themselves.
Being an exchange student is a challenging, rewarding and fun experience. You’re not a tourist or a guest. You’re actually living in your host country as a member of that community.
You’ll be placed with a host family and attend a local school. You’ll live like a local and become immersed in the culture. You’ll learn the language and gain invaluable international experience. You’ll learn a lot about yourself.
Student exchange programs promote tolerance, maturity and independence. They also encourage an international perspective. In a very competitive world these are highly sought-after qualities. Experience is everything™.
Investment for Life
Being an exchange student is an investment for life and complements your formal education in important and exciting ways. The experience of living or studying overseas can bring enormous rewards:
- Learn about the world firsthand
- Open career doors you didn’t know existed
- Get to know how others live and come to see the world from another perspective
- Learn another language
- Test yourself and acquire independence and maturity
- Make new friends and appreciate old ones even more
- Gain experience and judgement
- It requires courage to travel halfway round the world to live with a new family in a new community very different from your own
- It requires flexibility to attend a new school, make new friends and perhaps learn a new language
- It requires an open mind to live in another culture, to observe and appreciate the differences and to truly learn from the experience
- You become immersed in the local community
- You will find that all the familiarity of home – the ways of doing things, the people, sights, sounds, smells – are suddenly no longer there. You will be confronted with completely different ways of seeing and understanding the world around you
- You may encounter homesickness and culture shock, particularly in the early stages of the program
Please don’t think living and studying overseas is easy.
But if you have realistic expectations and are prepared to challenge yourself then it can be a life-changing experience.
Student Exchange Australia New Zealand Ltd has many years experience of delivering high-quality programs. All our staff have either been exchange students, have lived, worked or studied overseas. They understand the challenges involved and are committed to providing you with a high level of service and support throughout.
The best way to learn more about our programs is to come along to one of our free information sessions. They are held regularly in major cities and allow you to meet our staff and hear from returned participants. I run many of the sessions myself and I hope to meet you there.
If I can ever be of any assistance please feel free to call on 1300 135 331 (in Australia) or 0800 440 079 (in New Zealand).
James Crimp
National Director