CAREERS & PLACEMENTS
During TY and over the next few years students will gain experiences that will shape their career direction.
TYs will have to choose what to study for the Leaving Cert, and at what level.
They will then have to choose how they will continue their education after school, and what to study.
Everybody will make choices based on their circumstances, the opportunities that present themselves, their ambition and their goals.
WORK PLACEMENTS
Work Placements are often the highlight of TY for any student. These placements aim to prepare TYs for the role of the working adult, giving them job experience.
All TYs are required to take two separate week-long Work Placements [as part of their assigned Activities Weeks Groups] and one fortnight long Work Placement [at the end of February and into the first week of March]. It is each TY’s responsibility to organise these for themselves.
Each Work Placement will take place from a Monday - Friday - please see allocated dates above. In order to avoid absences having a negative effect in the classroom we must insist that Work Placements take place in the weeks scheduled.
Please note that each TY will be required to furnish me with the email address of their point of contact in each placement for two reasons: 1) Insurance liability information for the employer & 2) Employer assessment of the Work Placement Programme.
It is highly advisable that Work Placements are organised early to avoid disappointment.
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CAREER GUIDANCE
CAREERS PORTAL
All TYs will sign up to CareersPortal where they will be engaged in a wide range of career guidance material: careers research and subject choice options. This material is covered throughout the year in a timetabled Guidance class once a week.
DATS
Differential Aptitude Testing are a series of tests designed to measure one's abilities in different fields, such as verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, mechanical reasoning, and space relations. These will be cross referenced with the Indigo Personal Assessment to assist students in considering subject choices based on their interests and abilities.
MORNING
CAREER TALKS
Throughout the year, once a fortnight, past pupils and parents talk to the TYs about their college and career choices, the paths that they have taken and why…not to mention the secrets of their successes and the reasons for their set backs (and how to overcome these obstacles with the right frame of mind!).
PPU MOCK
INTERVIEW NIGHT
St Michael’s College Past Pupils Union kindly offer this evening to the school once a year. Mock job interviews are conducted by established professionals from fields such as medicine, finance, media, architecture etc. and have proven to be enormously helpful to all the students who take part in this opportunity to discuss their TY experience in this context. Please note that a provisional date has been arranged with the PPU but this is subject to change