Change to our life’s circumstances is always challenging and yet in a life of Career transitions, it can be both invigorating and creative.
The photograph above of Senior students all mingling closely at a pre-Covid Careers Expo reminds us of the change that has given us advanced Careers tools such as online Career Expos with hi-tech screen presentations that can be repeated such as illustrated in another photograph above. Last week we featured the amazing Virtual Reality Work Experience Goggles that the College is now going to purchase for use next year.
Our Careers Advisor, Jim Ward, has really enjoyed the last few years of great change and development in Careers as new ideas, equipment and pathways have presented huge opportunities for students. Students are urged to take advantage of these. The really good jobs will come to those who take the initiative in pursuing the new pathways that have been signposted clearly at College in recent times.
Mr Ward is also pictured above with his colleague Stephen Moynan (to the left of him) introducing our College Careers Central website. After 43 years of Secondary School teaching and 11 years as our College Careers Advisor, Mr Ward will be leaving Thomas Hassall at the end of 2020 to pursue a career change as an author in writing poetry and fiction books. One of these is already published. Jim is looking forward to the change although very sad that he will not be around at Thomas Hassall to continue to guide students further through these times of dramatic change in education and especially Career path search and training.
“I wish all students the very best success in their job search for the future,” says Mr Ward, “and encourage them to characterize this with persistent exploration, efficient organisation, and regular prayer.”