Background• Victoria wide program.• 140 schools across Victoria.• Delivered to Years 9 & 10 students.• Brings Schools, Community Stakeholders,

Students and Industry together.

The Components• Classroom curriculum activities.• Young Industry Ambassadors• Industry Tours• Youth Central website,

Skills shortages – the facts• By 2015, Victoria will need 123,000 more people

with a Diploma or Advanced Diploma, than we currently have trained.

• If there is no increase in the number of young people achieving VET qualification, we will need 240,000 more people than we have trained.

Gen Y• Born after 1980.• Motivated by consumerism.• Want cash now. Not prepared to wait.• Confident about taking risks.• Expect a lot more from employers than

previous generations.

• Extremely savvy with technology.• Desire prestigious career pathways which

reward them with variety, further opportunity to up skill and opportunity for travel.

• Are prepared to jump from job to job. • Have numerous pathways to choose from.

What can CiM Add?• Year 10 students make subject selections for the

pathway they wish to take for the following year.

• CiM delivers “real “ career information to Years 9 & 10 students by young people, who are also GEN Y & are often only several years out of school.

WHY ?

Student influences• Family• Teachers• Peers• Media• Movies, TV

Employers are in a bidding WAR!Competing industries are :

• high profile• self explanatory• SEXY

Young Industry Ambassadors• Talk about their personal pathway.• Passionate about their job, organisation,

industry• Tertiary, Trade or other.

Options under CiM• YIA can visit schools. • YIA can “host” a tour at their worksite.• Industry Tours.• “Dog tag” interactive engraver available.• Schools & Stakeholders can access funding &

support for innovative activities.

Industry Tour Destination• Host small groups of students through the site.• Where appropriate, an interactive activity is

encouraged.• Showcases high tech products, processes,

equipment.• Wherever possible, an experience or souvenir of the

tour, should be taken home.

• 72 YIAs to date.• 31 Industry Tour sites.• Participating employers include• Cadbury, Holden, Ford, Qantas, Sutton Tooling, Autoliv,

Fosters, Visy, Northgate Goldmine, Sealed Air Cryovac, Note Printing Australia, Boeing, John Beever, Production Parts, Yakult, SPC & NCI Packaging

to name a few.