Life After School

Life After School offers tailored workshops for high schools, equipping students with crucial 21st century knowledge and transferrable skills to confidently approach the real world beyond school.

Students are asking and we are answering.

  • What skills are employers looking for?
  • What do I include in my resume?
  • How do I get my first job with no employment history?
  • Where can I start looking for jobs?
  • What does the future of work look like?
  • How can I stand out from the crowd?
  • Tax and earnings and money – where do I start?
  • What do I need to have prepared for employment?

School Workshops

Life After School have created sought-after content, delivered through tailored workshops, to assist high school students in transitioning into the world beyond school and understanding the key skills required to do so confidently. Interactive, engaging and based on what is working in the marketplace today, students will take away real life skills that everyone needs when leaving school.

Enquire with us today to see what we can offer for your school and the future of your students.

EMPLOYMENT PREPARATION

Resume writing, cover letters, interview preparation … and more.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Social media presence and participation, consequences, awareness and auditing.

DIGITAL LITERACY

Digital footprints, online presence, cyber safety, privacy of information… and more.

THE FUTURE OF WORK

Required skills, employer expectations, the nature of the workforce… and more.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills… and more.

FINANCIAL LITERACY

Earning, spending, saving, borrowing, investing… building the foundations.

Testimonials

  • We had Life After School run their resume workshops for our graduating Year 12 Diploma of Business students. These workshops were a great success with each student completing a quality resume. Ashlee was accommodating and flexible in the delivery of her program and even tailored her templates to highlight the knowledge and skills that the students gained through studying their Diploma. Ashlee was approachable and engaging and the students responded positively to her teaching style. I would highly recommend Life After School for any school looking for quality and relatable workshops for their students.

    Elice Probst Corinda State High School / HOD Business, Digital Technologies & e-Learning
  • The topic was resumes and the students thought that they were 'all over them' and that nobody could teach them anything new. Well, they were wrong! Ashlee came into our Diploma of Business class as a guest speaker on the topic of job seeking and completing an effective resume. Ashlee explained her experience in completing resumes for job hunters and that everyone had something unique to offer, as well as how to word a resume to sell yourself. There were many ideas about what to include in your resume as well as how to explain your worth. Ashlee was welcomed into the class and had an instant rapport with the students. She was very friendly and honest in sharing her own story and other stories of success and mistakes when completing resumes. Ashlee helped the students in class and stayed back afterwards to support the students with their ideas. Ashlee was very easy to work with and professional and knowledgeable in her topic. I found her very approachable and supportive of the students and would be happy to teach with her every day.

    Tracey Benyon-Smith Corinda State High School / Business Teacher
  • I would definitely recommend the resume workshop to senior students as it taught me a lot of new things and gave me the foundation that I needed to create the perfect resume to my liking. Even if many of the things taught may seem like common sense, the workshop helps refresh that knowledge as you don’t really think about many of those factors often in day-to-day life. My favourite thing about the workshop was the resume template (and the lollies) as it provided me with a basic foundation which I could expand or tweak however I liked. I was able to land my first two jobs using the template, when before I didn’t really have any luck with my own. Ultimately, even if you may not use the template, I would still recommend having a copy of it, as it provides you with a lot of key headings and information you can add into your own personal resume. Additionally, Ashlee is very charismatic in her teaching and it definitely keeps things interesting and easy to listen to! It definitely helps having someone with years of experience teach you and provide helpful information and tips to get you started!

    Nathan Hoang Corinda State High School / Year 12 Graduate 2018
  • Professional, courteous and outstanding workshops are just a few of the reasons that I recommend Life After School to other schools and colleagues. What separates Life After School from most of the others, is Ashlee's tenacious attention to detail in delivering a workshop the right way, and to a teenage audience. Ashlee takes a job from start to finish and I can always count on her delivering the most up to date content to our students. I have the highest regard for Life After School and I will continue to use them at my school.

    Amanda Tanks Pathways Advisor, Sheldon College
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About the Founder | Ashlee Carrigan

You know how students (and adults) say ‘I wish I had learnt that at school’? Well, meet Ashlee.

Ashlee is a qualified educator with approximately 15 years’ experience in secondary schools and vocational education and training, in both Australia and the UK. Her firsthand experience in teaching, training and mentoring roles with high school students, has highlighted an urgent need for more information and preparation regarding the realities of ‘life after school’.

“I am fiercely passionate about education, the teaching profession, and most of all, working with youth. I am on a mission to provide additional learning opportunities that equip our youth with current, real-world knowledge and skills to help them approach life after school with more awareness and confidence. Most of all, I love delivering this content in a way that is engaging, refreshingly relatable and so, so needed!”

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