VIQ in your school

Features of the VIQ include -

  • Dovetails with ‘The Job Guide’ – the most used careers reference for Australian secondary students.
  • Cost effective. VIQ Gold $12.00 per student and VIQ Original $7.00.
  • Easy to use web based administration. No software to install.
  • Questionnaire interface customised for your School with your school's logo.
  • You decide how and when the VIQ reports are provided to students.
  • Professionally presented reports.
  • The included Career Action Plan that enables students to work through their results.
  • Reliable results that greatly assist the students in decision making regarding careers and subjects.
  • Email and telephone support.

What is involved in using the VIQ?

Step 1:
Schools register for the VIQ by contacting Chris Thompson (see contact page). The school website is setup (eg www.YourSchoolName.viq.com.au)

Step 2:
Using this new website that has been created, schools then set it up with details such as class names, student numbers, and choosing the report type.

  

Step 3:
Students are directed to the school’s website, and click on ‘Begin VIQ’. This is completed, either -

1. Individually in their own time (eg., at home, parent's work-place, local library, school computers etc), or

2. During class time when a suite of computers is available such as in the computer room or the school library

Step 4:
Reports are printed off by Teachers / Career Counsellors / Year Coordinators to hand back in to students in class lessons
Many schools hand back the VIQ reports to their students at a "Career Night" where parents and students meet to hear about the VIQ and careers more generally.

Step 5:
Actioning of the VIQ Report with completion of the ‘Career Action Plan’ allowing students to research their preferred careers and therefore, their subject choices for the latter years of secondary school can either be:

  • at the student's discretion in terms of their own personal "homework" in their own time

or

  • follow a specific time-line where the Career Action Plan has to be completed (generally a week or so before interviews are conducted for subject selections for the following year).