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  • Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

    ~ William Butler Yeates

Hi5 Career Messages

#5 Focus on the Journey.

Life is a journey of experiences with destinations or goals as stopping points along the way. Career building requires attention to goals and to all that occurs on the journey toward these goals. As your teens continue their career journeys, they may revise their original goals, or achieve them and set new goals.
Newsletter

February 6, 2012

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Parents

Introduction

Parents play a key role in students career development.  In a recent informal survey at Vanier Collegiate 70% of students surveyed stated that parents were the number one support and resource when deciding on future career and educational pathways.  It is for that reason this section is included in this website. 

The handbook, Career Planning With Teens: A Guide for Parents, Guardians, and Counsellors, provides career planning information, worksheets and appendicesof website links for parents to use to assist their teens with self-assessment, course selections, choices of a career pathway (post-secondary education, apprenticeship, entrepreneurship, and employment, as well as student loans and scholarship information).  This handbook was created by Prince Albert Catholic School Division and funded by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education and therefore their might be some specific information for St. Mary High, however it is a great resource for everyone.

While the entire handbook, or portions of it, may be printed out to be used, parents may want to access the online version of the Appendices since each website address listed is an active link to the website in the appendix. A print copy of the handbook is also available at the St. Mary High School library.

Career Planning With Teens: A Guide for Parents, Guardians and Counsellors (Flippable Pages Version)

Career Planning With Teens: A Guide for Parents, Guardians, and Counsellors (Bookmarked PDF Version)

****Prairie Valley School Division Career Planning Guide

WORKSHEET N: REVISED 2010 – 2011 ENGLISH PROGRAM: COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR HIGH SCHOOL - new one coming

WORKSHEET O: REVISED 2010 – 2011 FRENCH IMMERSION: COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR HIGH SCHOOL - new one coming

Vanier Information:

Announcements
Sports
News

Scholarships:

There are numerous scholarships, awards and bursaries that your child can apply for.  The majority of these scholarships are not determined solely on academics but involvement in extra-curricular activities and community service.  To further explore the variety of scholarships available please go through the student scholarship section and recommended sites with your child. 

Quick Links:

Pursue – Financing Your Education
Pursue – Student Scholarship Section
Pursue - Current scholarship list
Pursue – List of scholarships (based on deadline month, Saskatchewan school info)
Sasknetwork Scholarship Database
Studentscholarships.org
Government of Saskatchewan – Scholarships, Bursaries and Grants


Resources:

Relevance Magazine – Saskatchewan Sector Information, Labour Market Info and Profiles - not presently working at the moment
Parents as Career Coaches – Nova Scotia
Career Coaching Your Teens:  A Guide for Parents – Alberta
A Career Development Resources for Parents – Manitoba
Making Career Sense Out of Labour Market Information
Job Futures - find your province or Territory and learn about job futures
Youth Resources

Please feel free to email Vanier Collegiate’s Career Counsellor at christa.lapointe@htcsd.ca or careerguidance@htcsd.ca if you have any questions.