Five-hundred students and 45 exhibitors filled the Moruya Basketball Stadium on Tuesday for the South Coast Careers Market.
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Students from schools from Batemans Bay to Eden enthusiastically visited the exhibits, some of which were interactive, put on by the likes of the Australian Defence Force, Police and Eurobodalla Shire Council, and got a window to a possible future.
Moruya High School careers advisor Tracy Hogg said there had been great interest in the displays from tertiary education providers such as TAFE Illawarra, Australian National University, Charles Sturt University, Canberra University and the University of Wollongong.
“It has been great having the input and support of many Eurobodalla businesses, and the apprenticeship centres, who manage apprenticeships between training organisations and employees,” she said.
Former Moruya High School careers advisor Caroleen Russell, who organised the first careers market at Moruya High School nearly three decades ago, is delighted with how the event has grown.
“It has come a long way and it has had sustained growth,” she said.
“When it started it was held in the evening in a couple of rooms at Moruya High School.”
TAFE Illawarra Moruya hospitality teacher Pamela Moorefield said the market had been a success for them.
“It has been fantastic,” she said.
“We have had kids doing certificate II hospitality while at school that want to do certificate III at TAFE when they finish school.”
South Coast Workplace Learning’s Steve Picton was also delighted with the market.
“The students are having a great time and having contact with employers,” he said.
“They are not mucking around; they are taking it seriously, which is great. It is heartening that they are taking their career pathways seriously.”