Career-Based Learning Opportunties

Career Employment Options

A career journey can be influenced by a variety of experiences gathered throughout time. Students may have volunteer or job experiences that provide additional insights into passion, mission, profession, and vocation. The opportunity to gain experience outside of a traditional classroom will help students to build skills and make clearer choices on their career, college, and life journey.

Employment and Career Development Postings

Career opportunities are posted in TRANSEO and available for students to search the many experiences to engage in career exploration through:

Summer and Part-time employment
Job shadow
Mentorship
Career speakers

Students can log into TRANSEO on their myElmbrook Links page. Additional support for navigating TRANSEO can be found HERE. Students can also log service hours in TRANSEO

Students can work during the school day and earn credit through these Elmbrook Programs:

Career Employment Opportunity (CEO): Students gain quality employability skills and have work release from school. Students will need to work a minimum of paid 20 hours per week and can enroll in the course in multiple terms. Students will reflect upon real-world work connections to the content and experience career-relevant workshops.

Youth Apprenticeship allows employers to hired high school juniors and seniors for a one or two-year apprenticeship. During the apprenticeship, the student continues toward high school graduation and takes courses related to the profession as a way of enhancing what is being learned on the job. Students work 450 hours during one school year and can be released from school hours to work. Students are required to be enrolled in related curriculum courses and complete skills checklists.

Career areas include:

Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
Architecture & Construction
Finance
Arts, A/V Technology & Communications
Finance
Health Sciences
Hospitality & Tourism
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Marketing
Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM)
Transportation, Distribution, & Logistics

Mentorship allows students to work with an employer/mentor within a specific career path in order to explore the industry, gain some valuable experiences, and continue to build a network for future experiences. These experiences can be paid or unpaid. Students earning 40 hours can earn .5 credits. Sample agreement form.

Available State Certificates

Dual Enrollment Academy: WCTC & MATC

WCTC’s Dual Enrollment Academy is designed to provide high school seniors with a head start in jobs in high-demand fields

Students earn college credits – prior to high school graduation. The initiative awards participants with a WCTC diploma (upon successful completion) along with high school credits.

Students spend the majority of their school day, both fall and spring semesters of their senior year, at WCTC participating in the DEA.

Beyond gaining college credit, participation in the DEA helps high school students ease the transition from high school to post-secondary education, giving them insight into college academics. The initiative also benefits business and industry by having an immediate impact on private-sector employers looking for skilled talent.

For more information, visit the WCTC’s DEA Website. Students must apply to WCTC to be enrolled.

This program is designed for students who are ready for college level instruction with a particular interest in a career-field.

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Milwaukee Area Technical College's Dual Enrollment Academy participants receive college-level training to begin careers in high-demand fields.

Throughout their senior year, DEA students earn high school and college credits while spending the majority of their school day at MATC.

High school seniors earn college credits and high school credits and participants will earn an industry-recognized credential upon program completion

Credits earned through DEA can be applied to MATC programs in the future, which shortens the time and reduces the cost to complete a technical diploma or associate degree

For MATC Dual Enrollment Academy eligibility criteria, please click here

Additional Career-Related Recognition

Elmbrook Young Professional Scholar

The Young Professionals Scholars (YPS) provides various career-based learning experiences to Brookfield Central and Brookfield East High School students. Being sensitive to each student’s passions, interests, skills, strengths, and aspirations/goals, and given the targeted focus on academic and career planning, YPS program options include opportunities for career exploration, preparation and training, for leadership and employability skill development, and/or to learn and apply technical knowledge and skills in high demand, high skill fields through authentic hands-on learning by collaborating with and being guided by professional experts in career areas. The YPS will be explained on the BCHS/BEHS school profile (this document is shared with institutions of higher education during the college admissions/application process).

Industry Certifications

Are you seeking industry certification in a field of interest? Students can earn Adobe certifications through LAUNCH Digital Media and Digital Production Academy.

*Students can engage in other certifications upon request in the mentorship program or LAUNCH.

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