University of Tasmania, TasTAFE and the Education Department join forces for Creating My Careers

A joint initiative between the University of Tasmania, TasTAFE and the Education Department, the Creating My Career expo was held at the UTAS Inveresk campus on Friday.

Students select a “career cluster” of their choice, and then take an in-depth look at its associated jobs.

Health was one of the clusters at the expo with UTAS’s School of Medicine showcasing three different health areas – medicine, nursing/allied health, and the disability sector.

Launceston Clinical School project office Zoe Page said the disability sector was the fastest growing industry at the moment but all three areas suffered from shortages.

“People hold medicine to such high esteem, they think they can’t achieve it,” she said.

The medicine cluster had hands-on activities such as wound care and plastering.

“Everyone loves plastering a finger,” she said.

UTAS Create My Career spokesman Brett Williams said the expo was deliberately targeted at grade 9 students because it helped them with some targeted subject selection.