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Career Exploration
Career Exploration
You have several options below to explore your own unique strengths and interests. Please choose from the following activities and feel free to return to this page of resources anytime. Prepare for your future!
Junior Year:
Continue to use Naviance and MCIS to help with college planning, career exploration, and ACT test preparation.
Continue to work on and improve your GPA - this year's grades are critical for college admissions.
Take the ACT and possibly AP tests.
Visit colleges you are interested in, meet with a military recruiter or union representative for apprenticeship opportunities.
Search and apply for Scholarships.
Create/update your Raise.Me account with your grades, activities, etc. to earn micro scholarships.
Athletes
Send your sports resume and video to college coaches.
Fill out the athletic recruitment surveys on the college websites.
Fine and Performing Arts students
Explore how the audition and portfolio products work for the admissions process.
Build your portfolios and audition videos.
Investigate summer opportunities
Career Pathways
Career Pathways
Check out the BHS Career Pathways site.
Sign up on this Google Form for your top career field.
By completing this step, you will be notified and emailed with opportunities throughout to the year. These opportunities could be field trips, speakers, career fairs, scholarships, and more!
College Possible is looking for candidates!
What is it?
Free college-support program through virtual coaching.
Support to find your best-fit colleges, enrolling, and graduating with your degree.
Start your junior year of high school and have a dedicated College Possible coach through your college graduation.
Who can apply?
Juniors (class of 2024) with GPA of 2.0 or higher
Interested in earning a Bachelor's (4 year) degree
Be income eligible: Total family income less than 200% Federal Poverty Line
* All students receiving free or reduced lunch are eligible for College Possible
College Possible - APPLY HERE!
Priority deadline: Oct 21
Regular deadline: Dec 2
College Possible Overview – hear from current College Possible students, coaches, and staff about their experience within College Possible from sites across the country.
Eligible and interested juniors - please complete the google form to attend the info/help session on Monday, October 24th.
Naviance - through June 30, 2023
Naviance - through June 30, 2023
Naviance is a website that you can use to help make decisions about courses, careers, and colleges.
Login:
Click the “Lock” button on the top right corner from the BHS homepage.
Login with your school credentials.
Select “Naviance Student” - no further login is required.
Activities: Find under Self-Discovery Tab
Strengths Explorer (can only be taken one time)
Career Interest Profiler
College Supermatch
Build a Resume
MCIS
MCIS
MCIS (MN Career Information Systems) offers a wealth of career, education, and labor market information.
Login:
From our new portal page, at the top menu hover over Admin and click on Admin login. Login with the username: blainehs, and password: bengals
Activities:
School Sort
Occupations → Helpful High School Courses
ACT Prep
ACT Prep
ACT Test Prep Opportunities
Juniors will take the official ACT test at BHS in April, 2024.
Additional ACT test dates and information can be found here.
ASVAB
ASVAB
The ASVAB will be offered at one of our district high schools each year. The test is free. Sign up with Ms. Wolfe in the Career Center if you are interested.
Scholarships for Juniors
Raise.Me Scholarship Program - RaiseMe is one of the easiest scholarship sources available and helps students in 9th – 12th grades discover colleges and earn scholarships for their achievements throughout high school including grades earned, participation in activities, volunteering, etc.
Additional Scholarship Opportunities
Scholarships that come up quickly in Senior Year:
QuestBridge Act Six Jack Kent Cooke Gates Scholarship Coca-Cola Scholarship
Additional Resources:
Just for Juniors
A website designed specifically for juniors to begin thinking about, planning, and organizing for their senior year plans and applications.
Did you know that almost 70% of jobs in MN do not require a 4-year (bachelor’s) degree?
Explore various resources about military offerings in one spot.
Quick Video – High School Students: Learn How RaiseMe Works - YouTube RaiseMe helps students in 9th – 12th grades to discover colleges and earn scholarships for their academic and extracurricular achievements throughout high school. These achievements can include good grades, participating in clubs, playing on a sports team, volunteering, having a job or even starting a club. They can include AP or IB courses, honors classes, and college-level courses too.
Career Center Website
From ACT practice resources, scholarship information, job opportunities and more, please use this site to explore career & college resources.
Career Wheel and classes offered at BHS
Job Opportunities
Check out this virtual job board if you are interested in finding opportunities for paid work and Make a resume.
Make an appointment with Ms. Wolfe
Seniors, I am here for you. If you would like to set up a meeting to discuss where you are at and what you need to plan for your future, please complete the form above and I'm looking forward to connecting with you.
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