Community Involvement
Grants Pass High School has many opportunities for business members, community leaders, and service organizations to help our youth become productive citizens. For each of these activities, students come prepared for the activity as well as follow a PROFESSIONAL DRESS guideline.
These opportunities include:
Students participate in a practice interview where they can prepare for a real-world interview. Each student will have the opportunity to have two interviews.
We need approximately 30 interviewers for a morning session and 30 interviewers for an afternoon session.
Interviews are scheduled in January and May.
Students are provided an ethical dilemma to try to come up with a possible solution.
The day of the workshop, students are broke up into groups where a community member leads a discussion about possible solutions to the dilemma
Each group will share out their dilemma and solution, with a Q & A session to follow.
We need approximately 6-8 volunteers for a morning session and 6-8 for an afternoon session. Ethics Workshop happens in November and April
Each student participates in a job shadow in a career area that they have previously researched. Job shadows are a structured event in which students are dressed in business professional attire and come prepared with questions to ask of their job shadow host.
Job shadows can be as simple as an informational interview, a two hour visit, or an all day shadow depending on the host's schedule and availability.
All job shadows are arranged by the GPHS Career Center staff and planned absence and parent permission forms are generated and collected by GPHS staff prior to the job shadow experience.
Grants Pass High School provides general liability insurance coverage for all students placed in a job shadow setting. We welcome your comments, suggestions, and/or concerns at any time
Internships
Similar to a job shadow placement, an intership would be set up for repeated visits by a student.
These placements would include a training agreement, learning objectives, mid-term and final evaluation.
Placements can be paid or non-paid (with the District provind Worker's Compensation for the non-paid placements).
Companies will interview potential students and selects a student to work with for an agreed amount of time.
Josephine County College & Career Fair
Grants Pass High School hosts this annual event the 3rd week in October during statewide PSAT testing for 10th graders and invites schools from North Valley, Hidden Valley, Illinois Valley, Rogue River, and LOGOS Charter schools.
Four 40-minute sessions allow students to rotate to different areas of interest.
Businesses, colleges, and organizations can participate in two ways:
Classroom presentation
Trade-show style booth in the Gym
Middle School Career Day
Grants Pass High School hosts this annual event in March for 8th grade students and invites schools from North, South, Lincoln Savage, Fleming and Lorna Byrne Middle schools.
Three 45-minute sessions allow students to ask College/Career related questions set up like a scavenger hunt
Businesses, colleges, and organizations will have booths displayed in the Gym to interact with the students.
