Year 12 Licence to Work

This course is all about helping young people gain the insight, confidence and skills to get work, keep work, create careers and be set for life. The course is aimed at those students who want to leave school at the end of the year and progress into employment or further tertiary training or alternatively students can pathway into the Year 13 Learning Hub.

The Licence to Work programme includes career planning, workplace visits, voluntary work, health & safety course and work experience. The programme incorporates an explicit and intentional sequence of learning activities to build competencies that employers want to see in young people. It's all about setting you up to succeed in the workplace by learning the employability skills that all employers look for. We also get set for life by covering topics such as pathway planning; job search skills; CV preparation; job interviews; budgeting; banking; tax; kiwisaver; going flatting; hauora; apprenticeships etc. These topics are sometimes covered by guest speakers.