Kingaroy State High School Year 10 student Daniel Ross was trying his hand at the driving the coal truck simulator
July 20, 2018
Almost 1000 people explored the annual South Burnett Careers Market at TAFE Queensland’s Kingaroy campus on Thursday.
TAFE Business Development Officer Rob Fitz-Herbert said that as well as 840 Year 9-12 students from eight schools, about 100 local residents plus parents and teachers visited the exhibits.
Schools taking part were Burnett State College (Gayndah), Kingaroy and Nanango State High Schools, Yarraman and Wondai P-9s, Goomeri and Proston P-10s, and St John’s Lutheran School.
“It’s probably the biggest one we’ve had,” Rob said.
“The sausage sizzle – run by the South Burnett Futsal Association – ran out of sausages and had to buy more!”
The students had the opportunity to explore various career pathways, including TAFE and university courses, traineeships and apprenticeships.
They all went away with a TAFE bag crammed with information.
Various local employers had displays, including Stanwell, Downer, PCA, Council and South Burnett CTC.
The Australian Defence Force, Queensland Police, Fire Brigade, SES and Rural Fire Service were also represented.
The students enjoyed hands-on activities in automotive, electrical, metal fabrication, welding, hairdressing, aged care and child care.
Rob said there were about 40 stalls this year, including some new faces such as duboisia processor Boehringer Ingelheim and the AgForce schools team.
Checking out a possible career as an electrician were Nanango State High School students Daniel McConnell, Zane Brooymans, Declan Grover and Ryan Harper, with TAFE student Brandon WardlawTAFE metal fabrication teachers Allan Bock and Peter Town with Ist Year boilermaker apprentice Pacey Clegg, centre, who is working at Tarong Power StationTAFE Business Development Officer Rob Fitz-Herbert with Ben Nicholson, from South Burnett CTC Youth and Family ServicesNanango State High School students Reeanna Smith and Karnie-rie White were having an arresting time with Senior Constable Todd Armstrong, from Kingaroy PoliceBob Felsman, from Employment Matters, is looking for automotive apprentices for 2019 for John Dundas Automotive Group and Huston Motors … checking out the cars on display were Kingaroy State High School Year 10 students Holly Searle, Angelina Phillips-Peterson, Dada Dunrobin and Mitchell QuinnKingaroy Hospital speech pathologist Eliza Jorgensen and senior social worker Carmen McAuliffe had information about careers at Queensland HealthVegemite had pride of place on the PCA display this year, saluting the company’s new owners Bega … Kirstin Purcell and Aydan Edwards were looking after the stallThree universities had displays at the Careers Market … Andrew Paltridge and Mel O’Meara were student ambassadors for QUTMatthew Kenny had information about the various services and opportunities at South Burnett CTCTAFE hairdressing teacher Candy Bond with student Nicolette Churchward-NemetLuke Miller and Chrys McDuffie, from Downer, had a display which included a Mavinci Sirius drone plane and a drone boat, both used by surveyors on site at the Meandu MineQueensland Rural Fire Service volunteer community educators Russell French and Tracy Goldsmith
