St. Andrews International School Sukhumvit S107 is an international school for Early Years schooling, Primary schooling, and Secondary school. Like many other schools, it prepares schoolchildren for the future, from Nursery to Year 13 and beyond.

Our school is dedicated to ensuring the career-readiness of children under our tutelage and care academics-wise while also training their co-curricular, extra-curricular, and socio-emotional aspects.

We do this through the holistic learning method and the internationally recognised Sixth Form Education (mostly known to Commonwealth nations) for exam preparation like the International Baccalaureate (IB) or Cambridge Pre-U.

There’s a lot of value to explore when it comes to the career readiness programmes available in St. Andrews Sukhumvit that directly influences a child’s job preparedness by their very foundations.

The Value of Career Readiness Programmes

The value of career readiness starts with the foundations laid out by the school in question. We offer solid foundations that can spell a bright future for those under our wing.

Great things start with small beginnings. Growing up, let your children reach early for their dreams. They will face each day like a new challenge or a chance to be better—a chance to become their dream.

It’s all part of our school’s holistic approach to learning. We equally take care of every aspect of the child’s development, which in turn harmonise and assist each other towards unleashing their potential.

We even encourage communication between our teachers and the children’s parents to help the child continue their learning even at home, like it’s second nature for them.

Meanwhile, our readiness programmes also come with a mosaic of classrooms woven with both solid home values and diversity in mind, to give the young minds under our care the viewpoint of them being citizens of the world while retaining their cultural identity and individuality.

Our programmes for career readiness prepare our young learners at any age with the required skills they should have to search for, gain, maintain, and develop as employees who are part of a workforce as defined by Applied Educational Skills.

The Topics of Career Readiness Programmes

Preparing schoolchildren for life after graduation involves in-class instructions and on-the-job training through co-ops, externships, apprenticeships, and internships, particularly when they’re near high school or college age.

Children in Early Years and Primary school, meanwhile, will get foundational academic training to prepare them for the more intermediate STEM subjects of Secondary school.

Career readiness covers topics of immense importance, such as the following.

• Critical thinking

• Communication

• Financial literacy

• Time management

• Stress management

• Emotional intelligence

All this training encourages them to put their skills to practise while picking up on real-world skills outside of what’s been taught in a classroom setting.

The children are groomed to learn the basics then they’ll use what they’ve learned in practical application of things like financial literacy, stress management, emotional intelligence, or all of the things required for “adulting”.

Career readiness programmes are critical and foundational education in schools because the whole point of making children literate and college-ready is to also prepare them for white-collar work as part of the middle class or the elite.

Why Career Readiness Programmes are Critical

Life after college as you start your career starts with giving children the building blocks of literacy, which are further built up in Primary and Secondary schooling.

Vocational, clerical, or unskilled labour can be trained on the spot for a few months by the company. To do more specific or specialised managerial work or highly trained work related to your college degree, requires the college degree and career readiness programmes.

Your specific training in dealing with labour as a general practitioner doctor or specialist surgeon as well as an engineer, architect, or entrepreneur can be supplemented by these programmes.

The skills necessary to navigate the labour force involve general training in time management, stress management, critical thinking, communication, financial literacy, and emotional intelligence.

Career readiness skills are transferable skills relating to employability learned at school level and provides schoolchildren the competitive edge during internships and job interviews.

A career-ready employee showcases job adaptability beyond mere job training present in all companies and involves critical thinking skills that differentiate a good worker from an excellent one.

Current Worldwide Career Readiness Standards

International schools like St. Andrews match their career readiness standards with international-level standards, like how in the U.S., programmes ensuring top-notch career-ready standards are becoming more popular in both the state and national level.

In the current meta of international or Western education, there is a priority to prepare young learners to compete on a global scale, making early career readiness training essential.

The labour world at present requires graduates who are prepared to compete with more than mere basic or literacy skills. They need something extra to prevent slowdown from dealing with the labour force learning curve.

Career readiness programmes cover how to ask the right questions, solve problems, and to think critically to ensure real-world success beyond the theoretical training done in classrooms.

A college degree itself is the broad-strokes foundation of their future labour skills while the career-readiness education fills in the gaps needed for them to adapt to any company environment.

St. Andrews uses global academic standards and assessments that companies can easily implement and follow as part of the career-readiness training of their children.

This prevents them from having to deal with the individual standards of the region, national standards, or international standards in Asia. Going straight for world-class education should cover all these standards in one fell swoop.

How Do Career Readiness Programmes Address Skill Gaps?

The skills gap is the mismatch between the employees’ existing skills and the skills required from them by employers in light of the present competitive scene in the labour force at large.

Many jobseekers who graduate without career-readiness training and education might have to go through growing pains or the inevitable learning curve of having to figure out how to apply theoretical foundational skills on the practical level as a career.

The mismatch comes not from lack of college training, but instead lack of self-motivated application of what was learned that isn’t spoon-fed to them or done on a trial-and-error basis.

The young minds of St. Andrews have that edge of getting practical training and better out-of-the-box critical thinking education that allows them to immediately address that skills gap. They can competitively land jobs because they’re not as “green” as their fellow graduates.

To conclude, our children at St. Andrews Sukhumvit are more career-ready than many other pupils at public or private schools across Thailand or even across Asia as well as the world.

Employers aren’t interested in indulging the growing pains of employees because there are plenty of more experienced employees out there that they could hire over them who’ve figured out how to turn the theoretical into practical work skills and specialties.

Conclusion

Career readiness goes beyond graduating and educational attainment. It’s instead about being prepared for the rigours of work from the start.

The St. Andrews International School Sukhumvit is an advocate of career-readiness training and education to help newly graduated school children turn into college-ready and work-ready employees who can easily adapt into any work environment with little issue.

St. Andrews belongs to the Cognita School Group, a company that operates with schools from all over the world, including Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

For more information regarding St. Andrews Sukhumvit’s academic offerings, please fill out our online form to book a school tour at our campus. You may also visit our website and watch our personalised interactive virtual campus tour at your convenient time.