How Year 13 helped struggling high school graduates find jobs

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Half the graduates at a Brisbane high school didn't have a job or study prospects six months after leaving, so the school took them back for Year 13.

Mr Maisam now works with a local electrical company and his boss Nick Lumsdale, said the school's program was impressive.Migrants who've settled in Australia in the last 10 years are more likely to rate career opportunities as a problem for them personally

57 per cent of recent migrants say career opportunities are a problem, compared with 44 per cent of Australians born here"The kids really don't learn that through their normal schooling, so it makes it really hard for them to dive out of school and straight into a job when they're not 100 per cent sure how they're supposed to turn up for interviews, or even structure a resume to send into companies.

 

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