Your Pathway… Your Future… Your World….
Welcome to
Careers
At Mickleham Secondary College, we are committed to supporting every student in exploring their interests, identifying strengths, and planning for a successful future beyond school. Our Careers and Pathways program provides personalised guidance, resources, and opportunities to help students make informed decisions about their education, training, and employment options.
Whether students are considering University, TAFE, apprenticeships, or entering the workforce, we offer tailored support through one-on-one counselling, careers curriculum, Morrisby profiling tool, work experience, access to up-to-date industry information and opportunities to visit tertiary providers and industries. We work closely with families, educators, and external providers to ensure each student is prepared to take confident steps toward their goals.
With a focus on "Your Pathway, Your Future, Your World," we encourage students to take ownership of their journey and explore the many possibilities available to them through their education at school and beyond.
Whole School Careers Program
Year 7 to Year 12
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Careers Curriculum
The careers curriculum, based on the VCAA Careers Curriculum and the Australian Blueprint for Career Development, helps students explore their strengths, interests, and future pathways. It supports informed decision-making by guiding subject selection, skill development, and career planning, preparing students for further study, training, and work opportunities. At Mickleham, we use Study Work Grow as a tool to support careers curriculum within our ARCH program.
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My Career Insights
My Career Insights helps students understand themselves and explore career options, guiding subject and pathway choices. It includes Morrisby, a career-matching tool tailored for Victorian students, outlining pathways to TAFE, university, apprenticeships, and traineeships.
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Work Based Learning
Work-based learning connects students with industries and workplaces, supporting career exploration and development through partnerships with schools, employers, and community organisations. It includes work experience, exposure programs, structured workplace learning (SWL), and school-based apprenticeships and traineeships (SBATs).
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Careers Counselling
Every student benefits from supportive discussions about their work and learning options, especially before choosing senior subjects and post-school pathways. Career counselling helps students make informed decisions and build skills for future career choices.
Career Clusters
At Mickleham Secondary College, we use Career Clusters as a key tool to support students in understanding themselves, exploring career options, and planning their pathways beyond secondary school.
When most people think about jobs, they often picture well-known roles like doctors, teachers, firefighters, or lawyers. These are the familiar and visible careers. However, research shows that around 50% of teenagers aim for just ten popular jobs, even though these roles make up only about 1% of the entire job market.
In reality, the world of work is much broader. Most adults are employed in a wide variety of roles—as technicians, managers, operators, creatives, sales professionals, and more. This is where Career Clusters come in.
Instead of grouping jobs by industry, the six Career Clusters are based on shared skills, tasks, and work environments. They help students explore career possibilities that match their interests and strengths, while showing how those roles exist across multiple industries—not just within one field. This approach opens up opportunities rather than narrowing them.
At Mickleham, we help students make meaningful subject choices by linking each Year 10 subject to relevant Career Clusters. These connections are reinforced through our careers curriculum, one-on-one career conversations, and clear Cluster icons displayed on our subject factsheets and website.
This guidance empowers students to make informed decisions about their subjects in Years 10 and beyond—not to lock them into a specific career, but to keep doors open and align their studies with what they enjoy and do well.
The skills and knowledge gained from these subjects are highly transferable, giving students the confidence and flexibility to move into a wide range of careers and industries after school.
Our Careers Team
Sarah Blenkiron
Careers and Pathways Leader