Fono – Senior Pasifika Student Career Days
Career Services runs Fono – career days for senior Pasifika students - around the country each year.
These career days encourage senior Pasifika students to think about their dreams for the future and start researching how to make their dreams become a reality.
What’s it all about?
The career days, led by experienced Career Consultants from Career Services encourage students to think about:
- Personal qualities
- How to describe themselves and why (job interviews, scholarship interviews, CVs and public speaking)
- Skills – identifying what they are good at
- Values – identifying what is important to them
- Subject choices and what different subjects will lead to
- Jobs or careers for the future and what’s involved in them
- How their skills can be applied to different jobs
- How to get experience and learn skills
- Where to get help if they need it – from family, friends, teachers or career advisors.
It’s never too early to start thinking!
The fono encourage students to:
- Start thinking about their career options now<//strike><//strike>
- Start preparing for their career of choice
- Ask questions and seek advice
- Be inspired and inspire others to make the first steps
Information for parents
If you need more information to help you and your children, check out the Career Services website for some great tips, or phone 0800 222 733 for more advice from our friendly staff.
As a parent/caregiver wanting to help your children with their future, it’s important that you:
- Understand what’s involved in career decision making for today’s youth
- Understand the importance of subject choices
- Find ways to help children with subject choice decisions and thinking about their future
For more information about Fono career days near you, contact Career Services.
