Finding the right career involves more than guesswork. You need to know which jobs are in-demand, what they pay, and how they match to your interests and strengths. Let's get started!
Material Type: Reading
Students will assess their career aspirations, evaluate and compare career opportunities based on aptitudes and interests, and plan a career while understanding the income potential of that chosen career.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will investigate potential careers that match their aptitudes and interests.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will actively assess their career aspirations, critically evaluate and compare diverse career opportunities aligned with their aptitudes and interests, and strategically plan their career path while gaining insight into the income potential associated with their chosen careers.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Conventional wisdom frames the ideal career path as a linear one -- a ladder to be climbed with a single-minded focus to get to the top. Career development consultants Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper invite you to replace this outdated and limiting model with "squiggly" careers: dynamic, open-ended growth paths tailor-made for your individual needs, talents and ambitions. A radical rethink for anyone who feels restricted and defined by the limits of the corporate ladder.
Material Type: Lecture
What's your passion? Social entrepreneur Noeline Kirabo reflects on her work helping out-of-school young people in Uganda turn their passions into profitable businesses -- and shares the two questions you can ask yourself to begin doing the same.
Material Type: Lecture
Networking skills are crucial for your professional success. But, what is networking? How do you go about developing effective networking skills? In this video, Feliú-Mójer discusses how networking is not about collecting business cards, but about building meaningful connections and relationships. She offers practical strategies to build effective networking skills and for building a strong network of contacts. Feliú-Mójer also gives an overview of how you can leverage online platforms to network and advance your career.
Material Type: Lecture
Course on Career Education to be adapted for high school instruction.
Material Type: Full Course, Textbook
This resource is ideal for seniors as they finish out their high school career. The e-portfolio is used as an exit interview that bridges the students from the high school marketing program (typically a work-based experience class) to the post-secondary level. The students create the e-portfolio in class, but present the e-portfolio to the admissions or student services staff of a local technical college. There are certain components, however, that are covered previously in the school year (such as the personality type assessment that is included). In order to prepare for the interview, students write out the ideal answers to common interview questions.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
This rubric includes three scenarios (one for the classroom, one for the workplace, and one for career-technical student organizations) that can be implemented to assess students' abilities to demonstrate ethical work habits. It also includes a comprehensive rubric and instructions for using the rubric to assess student performance. A downloadable document containing the full set of activities, instructions, and rubrics can be found in the Resource Library. For more rubrics and other instructional tools, visit https://mbastatesconnection.mbaresearch.org/.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. My Next Move has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers. Users can find careers through keyword search; by browsing industries that employ different types of workers; or through the O*NET Interest Profiler, a tool that offers personalized career suggestions based on a person's interests and level of work experience.
Material Type: Interactive
Middle and High School educators across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2019-2020 school year.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Middle and High School educators across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2019-2020 school year.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students connect their future career choices and decisions with budgeting practice and identifying the type of lifestyle they will be able to live based on their career choices.
Material Type: Lesson
The activity shows students how to write an effective email to ask for an informational interview across a variety of real-world situations. Each time, students learn to use a single email to introduce themselves, build trust and show authenticity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson
Students conduct research about the gig economy, identify benefits and drawbacks to gig work, and reflect on whether gig work would be right for them.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students use research and observation data (field trip) to objectively rank potential career opportunities to help guide their individual career choice and pathway. Learning goals/objectives: After completing this unit, students should be able to utilize an objective method for evaluating potential careers. Students will determine what career types and opportunities are best suited to themselves personally and defend their choices.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
A student’s choices shape their character’s story in Get a Life, a narrative-driven, college- and career-awareness game. Guide a character from high school graduation to retirement. Decide what interest they will pursue and if they will continue in school. Then, navigate opportunities and obstacles. Balance their comfort, civic involvement, and income to make sure they lead a comfortable, satisfying life. Dynamic play ensures nearly limitless storylines and outcomes, much like life. Get a Life is designed and written to teach secondary school students about college and career options and encourage them to have conversations about their futures.
Material Type: Game
This classroom activity introduces students to the 16 career clusters, and provides them an opportunity to find two careers to match each career cluster in a group activity.
Material Type: Game
The Selective Service program sets up a fair way to register eligible men for military service. Military service in the U.S. is voluntary. But most young men must register with Selective Service. Learn about the registration process.
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