NEWS DESK
Expo gives students inside view of jobs
Bookie puts Frankston on struggle street
JOBS and careers of all sorts were the focus of last week’s Frankston Mornington Peninsula Careers and Jobs Expo at Mornington Racecourse. The event was designed to help the students and school leavers make informed decisions on their futures. It showed them what jobs were on offer, what skills and abilities were required, and how they should go about getting into them. Expert information and advice is regarded as the most important thing when planning young peoples’ careers - or a career changes. The event’s focus on interactivity saw many hands-on activities offered, including a tyre change pit-stop challenge, fitness tutorials, barista workshop, brick laying, building and plumbing. Hands-on demonstrations and ‘Try a trade’ stalls were put on by some of the 80 exhibitors. Experts from Chisholm Tafe, Monash and Deakin universities, Peninsula Health, Australian Institute of Personal Training, and Department of Health and Human Services were represented. This was the first year Mornington Peninsula Shire and Frankston City Council have co presented a joint careers expo.
Continued from Page 1 Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show Frankston is nowhere near the top of the nation’s list of most disadvantaged suburbs. When this was put to Mr Jantzen he said about 80 per cent of punters had backed Frankston as the most likely location for any second series of Struggle Street. A spokeswoman for SBS told The Times there have been no discussions to decide whether to commission a second series of Struggle Street. The three-part series was produced by Keo Films and was part funded by Screen Australia. Mr Jantzen said all bets will be void if SBS does not commission a second series. “Punters will get their money back.” He said filming of any second series of Struggle Street will have to begin this year for Sportsbet to pay out. Despite - or perhaps because of - the negative publicity surrounding Struggle Street, the show has been a ratings success for SBS. OzTAM ratings revealed 1.31 million viewers watched the show’s first episode last Wednesday evening, to give SBS it highest-ever audience for a documentary. Frankston Council was contacted for comment about Frankston being named a likely location for a second series of Struggle Street but mayor Cr Sandra Mayer was unavailable before deadline.
Green fingers: Aaron Piening from Langwarrin’s Bayside Christian College trying out horticulture. Picture: Yanni
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