National Youth Week gives the wider community the opportunity to listen to young people and acknowledge and celebrate the positive contributions made by their efforts and achievements. This is one way of finding a job, using contacts made at school, clubs, in community organisations, and among friends and family. Hunting New Apprenticeships Programs are available in schools, but apprenticeships have changed and are now competency based and can be completed more quickly than in the past. The apprenticeship 'indenture' has been replaced by a training agreement between the training provider, employer and apprentice. See Group Training Programs New Apprenticeship Centres.
Centres are across Victoria.
These programs, at secondary schools for students 15 years and older, are run across Victoria in association with TAFEs, Group Training Companies, Jobs Pathways Programs and employers. Legally, students are treated as students and employees. They go to TAFE one day a week and study VCE at their school on two days. These students complete both the VCE and the preparatory work for the apprenticeship. If they are employed as an apprentice after they leave school, they are given credit for the modules completed in their school apprenticeship.