In this collection you will find all the resources shared originally at our Careers and Resumes workshop on March 10, 2021. This includes videos, resume templates, Kahoot! game, and websites. Topics include resumes, cover letters, job interviewing, job hunting, communication skills, and tips.
Material Type: Game, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This interactive lesson helps students understand how companies use algorithms to sort job applicants. It also encourages students to reflect on how digital data mining also can contribute to the hiring process. Students examine resumes and digital data to consider the ways in which our data may open or close opportunities in an increasingly digitized hiring market.
Material Type: Lesson
A Career Readiness Workshop is a Career Exploration experience on the continuum of Career Connected Learning. These workshops bring together students and industry professionals to take part in career readiness activities. Students network with professionals, take part in mock interviews, and generally build their confidence and skills related to interactions with potential employers. These events are a great way to help prepare students for meaningful and effective interactions with professionals. Industry professionals with an interest in supporting the talent pipeline and increasing the number of highly qualified young people in their local community also benefit greatly from a Career Readiness Workshop. At a typical Career Readiness Workshop -- which often includes dinner and networking-- industry representatives lead students through three interactive workshops over a three-hour period: Delivering an Elevator Pitch, Resume Best Practices, and Interview Strategies. This helps students develop a skill set to market the STEM skills they’ve attained through their studies. The event also gives opportunities for students and professionals to informally interact and network during dinner and after the workshops.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provides exercises to prepare learners for searching for and accessing employment. Interactivity Type: Active - requires user to respond to prompts, questions, etc. Quality of Subject Matter was assured by: -Consultations during development of instructional materials -Participation as an ongoing member of team developing the instructional materials
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson
Poster with 5 tips for job searching
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
What is a cover letter? Use this handout with students to teach them Dos and Don'ts
Material Type: Reading
Career fairs are great places to learn about job openings, to network, and more -- but job-seekers need to be prepared. Career fairs can be critical tools for job search success -- whether job-seekers use them to get an internship or job, or, whether job-seekers use them as a networking tool. Regardless of how you plan to take advantage of your next job expo or career fair, here are some key resources to help you make the most of the experience -- as well as key resources for finding your next career or career fair.
Material Type: Reading, Student Guide
Slides about searching for a job/career
Material Type: Lesson
Do you want to find work in the USA? Learn how to look for jobs and get tips on how to apply. Read about different careers and job training. Find resources and services for immigrant job seekers. Get information you need to succeed at work or start your own business.
Material Type: Reading
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
In this mini-unit, students begin by creating a career plan and an education plan. After learning financial aid vocabulary concepts, students will play an online game called “Payback” to apply knowledge learned about paying for college. The activity concludes with students creating a personal resume and taking notes on job interview tips.
Material Type: Unit of Study
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
Two of the core competencies designated for The First Year Seminar Liberal Arts Math and Science (LMF 101) course are Integrative Learning and Global Learning along with oral communication. These abilities are exercised by students in the Career/Interview Presentation project. The main goal of the assignment is to promote student networking within the scientific community through interviews with an expert in the field. Also the FYS students will conduct background research about their career choices and use their findings to determine if they can be realized when interviewing a professional. The assignment is scaffolded whereby students will learn to use on-line resources to search for information about the profession and use on-line tools to material in preparation for the interview. Students will learn how to write professional emails, network and create PowerPoint slides. After the class presentation, students are asked to write a reflection in their ePortfolio on their career choice and interview experiences. The time dedicated for this project is on the order of weeks and counts for 20% (15% oral presentation and 5 % reflection) of the final grade.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
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
