From the Careers Department

Careers Events at Saint Ignatius’ College

Last week we completed our last university visit with Dr Clara Pribaldi from University of Adelaide talking to the Year 12’s and 11’s about degrees at Adelaide, what to expect at university and how to access your degree. Clara also assisted our Year 12’s with pathway planning into competitive degrees and advised them on how to structure their preferences. Previously we hosted Jon from Flinders and Lauren from UniSA. We are lucky to be so well supported from our local universities.

If your son / daughter did not access this service please be aware you can book a session with each of the individual universities via their future students websites.

SATAC Dates 2024

• September 29 Last chance to avoid a late fee closes. Medicine, Vet Bioscience, Oral Health, Dentistry (and some other courses with auditions/ hard deadlines) closes. Open an account, add one course and PAY.
• December 1 Equal Consideration cutoff date.
• Jan 3 2024 Change Of Preference cut off.
• Jan 11 2024 Main Offer
• Jan 24 2024 2^nd offer

TAFE

You can also apply to TAFE via SATAC. TAFE have a more ‘rolling’ approach to offer rounds and dates so refer to the TAFESA website / SATAC website for dates.

Mentor’s Breakfast 2024

This week we launch our annual Mentor’s Breakfast! Students can nominate to attend the event and discuss a range of courses with Old Ignatians who are currently / recently studied this course. I recommend that students research all aspects of their prospective degrees such as what electives can I choose? How difficult is the course of study if I don’t have the assumed knowledge? How can I access alternate pathways? Which uni should I attend? A great way to do so is to chat to someone who has been there, done that!

Bookings are essential! To register for this event please sign up on the sheet on the careers’ room window, choose from the delicious menu and list your courses.

When: Friday 20^th October
Time: 7.30-8.30am
Where: Kranewitter Hall
RSVP September 22

Apprenticeships and women in engineering careers at BAE

BAE Systems deliver projects of global and national significance to our customers and are recognised for developing some of the most impressive careers. BAE offer an opportunity rich environment with numerous projects across multiple domains with a national workforce of over 5500 people. Collaborating with their supply partners, they develop, engineer, manufacture, and support products to deliver capability as promised to their customers.

It’s an exciting time to join BAE and a great place to start your career.

BAE Systems Maritime Australia located in the Le Fevre Peninsula and BAE Systems Australia located at Edinburgh Parks are calling for applicants into their 2024 apprenticeship programs

• 2024 Apprenticeships - applications are now open for the BAE 2024 apprenticeship programs in Machining, Electronics, Boiler making, Piping and Mechanical fitting.
• BAE is working in conjunction with Uni SA to deliver a Degree Apprenticeship in Software Engineering.
• BAE are seeking expressions of interest from females that would like to attend an information session about careers within BAE. This session will be at the BAE city site from 4pm until 5pm on the 13^th of September. Contact BAE if you have girls wanting to attend.

The BAE contact is:

Lacey Kelly
Training Administrator
Early Careers & Trades Development
BAE Systems Maritime Australia

T: (08) 8480 8128 E: lacey.kelly@baesystems.au

UniSA Resources

The UniSA website offers a wide variety of resources for students and parents about a variety of services and courses. Take a look for information on;

• NEW Software Engineering degree industry partnership with BAE. Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours) Industry Partner Program - Study at UniSA - University of South Australia
• Accounting Exam revision classes Accounting exam revision sessions - Study at UniSA - University of South Australia
• Holiday tours of UniSA October Campus Tours - Events calendar - University of South Australia (unisa.edu.au)
• Bachelor of Visual Effects partnership Rising Sun Films
• Webinars on how to apply and what to expect UniSA Webinars - Study at UniSA - University of South Australia
• “Job Guarantee” for double degrees for B Business (Property) / HR
• Scholarships Resources and support - Study at UniSA - University of South Australia

Upskill for casual work these holidays!

If Year 12’s are looking for casual work next year in the construction / civil works industries while you study you will need a white card / traffic control qualifications. Civil Train are running programs in the upcoming holidays.

To register which program you are interested in please submit an EOI through the ‘enquire now’ button on the below links or QR code and Civil Train will be in touch

Traffic Control Skill Cluster 25^th, 26^th, 27^th, 30^th and October and 21^st and 1^st of Nov at Civil Train’s Burton Live site. Traffic Controller Skill Cluster - CIVIL TRAIN

White Card training White Card - CIVIL TRAIN

Lisa McDonald
Vocational Services Coordinator