Careers News
Topics this week include:
- Summer school programs
- Free career development programs – career and job planning and how to manage your finances
- Year 9 to 11 students: university early admission programs that use Year 11 grades.
- Year 10 to 11 students: La Trobe University early admission program
- Competitions
- Passionate about sport?
- Dates for your diary
11 Career Podcasts You Need to Know About
Love listening to podcasts?
We’ve pulled together 11 fantastic career-related podcasts to fill up your playlist. These podcasts cover a huge range of topics, from supporting parents to working with neurodiverse learners, and you’ll find more career stories than you’ll ever be able to listen to.
3 Top Tips to Get a Summer Job
Finding a summer job sounds simple, right? But when life and school get busy and you find time is racing towards the summer break, you might be thinking to yourself “Where do I even start?”.
Latest Job Spotlights
How Volunteering Can Help You Up Your Job Readiness
Find out more HERE
11 Great Life Lessons from Albert Einstein
Few have lived a life more rewarding than the great Albert Einstein. He was a physicist, philosopher, author, and perhaps the most influential scientist to have ever lived. This man of great scientific feats also was a man of a noble heart and uncanny wisdom that he gained from the school of hard knocks.
Here are just some of the things you can learn from the great and amazingly successful Albert Einstein.
VALUE YOUR IMAGINATION
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
“Imagination is the highest form of research.”
NEVER STOP BEING CURIOUS
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
BE WILLING TO LEARN NEW THINGS
“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
REALISE THAT GROWTH COMES OUT OF FAILURE|
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
“Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.”
DARE TO BE DIFFERENT AND TAKE INITIATIVE
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.”
LIVE IN THE MOMENT AND REALISE THAT BEAUTY EXISTS EVERYWHERE
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
“I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
LIVE SELFLESSLY AND VALUE OTHERS
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”
“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
“Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them—these are the best guides for man.”
YOUR THOUGHTS CREATE YOUR REALITY
“I admit that thoughts influence the body.”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
UNLEASH YOUR GREATNESS
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
BE KIND TO ALL LIVING BEINGS ON EARTH
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
TRUST YOUR INNER VOICE
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
Laura Lunardi
Careers Coordinator