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Earn money working while you are still at school.
In a school-based traineeship
This is the place that connects young people still at school with a future career.
Year 10, 11 and 12 students want to leave school and get a job, but employers tell them they don’t have enough experience.
“So give me the job and I’ll get the experience!”
An Australian School-based Apprenticeship is a fast way to connect young people with future jobs. They’re also called school-based traineeships.
And MEGT (Australia) can help connect you with employers so you
- are paid for work with them during the week
- still attend school
- gain a qualification
- gain valuable work experience
- earn an income.
Click here to see the jobs
Cooking up a storm
Trent started cooking when he was 8 years old. So the passion for cheffing started at a very early age.
At age 15 he even paid his own way to travel from Plainland in Queensland to Sydney for work experience at his aunt and uncle’s Colby Function Centre.
Today, Trent has completed his Certificate II in Commercial Cookery and is doing his Certificate III with Porters Plainland Hotel.
“I feel I am doing really well,” says Trent “While my friends are studying I already have my Certificate II and a feeling of accomplishment. The people here are great. They all have a great sense of humour. I am saving my money for a really good car and am looking at saving for a block of land.”
Trent’s advice is “Just get out there. It is not as hard as any other job and you walk out with a Certificate II or III or how far you want to go.”
Getting a buzz from work
Working at a facility that generates 900 megawatts of electricity would have to be a dream job for many young men.
Ben Murphy is now an apprentice mechanical fitter and turner at the Swanbank Power Station with CS Energy but didn’t really have a firm idea which direction his career was going to go when he was at school.
“I didn’t really know what I wanted to do when I was in Year 10, but when I was asked if I wanted to do a school-based traineeship one day a week in the workplace and one day in TAFE, I thought it was a pretty good opportunity. It would get me first hand experience and the skills to get me started in a career with a Certificate II in Engineering Production.
Now aged 18, Ben started his apprenticeship with Swanbank Power Station as an apprentice mechanical fitter and turner in January 2006.
“Some of my friends are at uni and one is labouring but there is a big difference in social life between us and having money to do things. I can learn and earn money and still have a social life as well.
“I am living at home and saving at the moment. I’d like to get a car in the next couple of months.”
When asked what challenges Ben faced when starting at the power station as an apprentice, he said “Getting to know people where you are working. How to communicate with people you do not know and getting a good working relationship with them.
“But I felt very welcome the first day I was here. They took me to B Station (which has 4 units in the power station). I was expecting them to ease me into it but they got me to do real work the first day.
“The guys I work with are a good bunch of people. I have more confidence now whereas at school I was a little bit nervous.”
