What is Careers?
While the Classroom Jobs topic is about work students do in the room, Careers is about the working world outside it. Each career shows its weekly pay, whether it produces goods or provides a service, its contract type (Full-time, Part-time, Fixed-term or Casual), its typical hours and hourly rate, and a note about what the role is like.
Your classroom starts with 14 ready-made careers, paying from $288 to $1,800 a week.
You can run Careers on its own or alongside Classroom Jobs. Each has its own switch and its own settings.
Turn on Careers
Click Topics in the sidebar.
Open Careers.
Click Turn on, then confirm.
Once it's on, students can see the Careers tab in their Marketplace.
Set up your career listings
The Career listings section on the Careers page shows every career in your classroom.
To change a default career, click edit and update the name, description, icon, weekly pay, spots, goods or service, contract type, hours and hourly rate. Click Save changes.
To add your own career, click Add career, fill in the details, and save.
To hide a career from students without deleting it, switch it off. To hide several at once, tick them and click Turn off.
To remove a career completely, click edit and then delete. To delete several at once, tick them and click Delete.
Choose your settings
Open the Settings section at the bottom of the Careers page.
Students can apply for Careers (on by default). Turn this off if you'd rather assign every career yourself.
Auto-accept career applications (on by default). Students start their career the moment they apply. Turn it off to review each application first.
Careers require a CV (on by default). Students answer a few short questions ("Why you?" and "What have you done before?") and choose their year level before they start.
Student careers limit (1 by default). The most careers a student can hold at once.
These settings only affect Careers. Your Classroom Jobs settings are separate.
How students start a career
The student opens the Marketplace and goes to the Careers tab.
They can filter careers by Goods or Service, and click a career to see what it pays, its hours and contract type.
They start the career, filling in their CV if you've asked for one.
With the default settings, they see Your job listed beside the career straight away. If you've turned auto-accept off, the application shows as Pending approval until you decide.
Review applications (if auto-accept is off)
Select a student.
Click Show CV to see a student's answers.
Click Approve or Deny. You can also tick several applications and approve or deny them in bulk.
If you turn auto-accept back on while applications are waiting, Banqer decides them for you. It fills the spots in the order students applied and declines the rest. Declined students can apply again.
Assign to or remove students from jobs
The Student careers section lists every student and the career they currently hold.
Find the student.
Click the Assign button and choose a job. They don't need to have applied.
To take a student off a career, click the Manage careers button to remove it from their list.
If the career is already full, Banqer asks whether you want to Assign anyway. This gives the student the job without adding a spot to it.
How pay works
Every career pays a set weekly amount, on the same pay day as the rest of your class income.
Tax is taken out automatically. Students can see it in My payslips, which shows their pay, the tax and their take home pay.
A student who starts or leaves a career partway through a week is paid only for the days they held it.
Flags
Careers can't be turned off once it's on. To pause things, turn off ‘Students can apply for Careers’ setting, hide individual careers, or take students off their careers. Students who already hold a career keep it and keep getting paid.
Deleting a career can't be undone. If students hold it, deleting it takes them off the career and pays them for the days they've worked that week. To hide a career instead, switch it off.
The hours and hourly rate are there for students to compare careers, and they don't change the pay. For example, the Jewellery Maker is part-time but still earns more than some full-time careers, which makes a good discussion starter.
A student can't start a career that has no spots left, even if the auto-accept setting is on. They'll need to choose another career, or you can add more spots.
Tips
Before students choose, get them to compare two careers: one that makes goods and one that provides a service, or a full-time role and a casual one. Ask them why the pay is different.