Career Exploration Series:
This year the College & Career Centers at FWHS & FLHS partnered to present a series of speaker panels to present diverse careers. If you are interested in watching our past events, please click here.
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There are thousands of career paths students can pursue, exploring options should be fun and exciting!
The College and Career Center is designed to assist students in their research and help identify interest areas. The resources below can help students explore careers:
Connecticut Career Paths Guide
Connecticut Career Cluster Info
ASVAB Career Exploration Program: Each year, FWHS offers the ASVAB assessment to students in grades 11 and 12.
The ASVAB CEP, sponsored by our Department of Defense, is a public service provided to our nation’s schools at no cost and no obligation. The ASVAB, the world’s most widely used aptitude battery, consists of 10 subtests that yield three Career Exploration Scores (Verbal Skills, Math Skills, and Science and Technical Skills). These three scores, combined with the results of an interest inventory, will assist your child when exploring a wide variety of educational and career options. After the ASVAB test, students will receive Exploring Careers: The ASVAB Career Exploration Guide with their test results. Students will have the opportunity to attend a post-test interpretation a few weeks after the test. To learn more about the student benefits of ASVAB CEP participation, click here.
Schoolinks: To log into SchooLinks using ClassLink single sign-on, click the Log in with ClassLink button from the SchooLinks login page. You will be taken directly into SchooLinks if you have already logged into ClassLink. Otherwise, enter your ClassLink login credentials.
Alternatively, you can go to your district's ClassLink dashboard and click on the SchooLinks app that has been made available to you.
Find careers that interest you right at your fingertips! Students can research and filter careers by education, national salary, career cluster, and more. Log into Schoolinks and explore the following features:
Clusters & Pathways
Career Cluster Finder
Career Interest Profiler
Occupational Outlook Handbook: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/home.htm
The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is a career resource offering information on the hundreds of occupations that provide most of jobs in the United States. Each occupational profile describes the typical duties performed by the occupation, the work environment of that occupation, the typical education and training needed to enter the occupation, the median pay for workers in the occupation, and the job outlook over the coming decade for that occupation.
Career One Stop: https://www.careeronestop.org/
To deliver integrated, easy-to-understand workforce information that helps job seekers, students, workers, workforce intermediaries, and employers develop their capacity and make sound economic decisions in the new economy.
Career Cluster Information:
The U.S. Department of labor married down 16 different career clusters to help individuals research possible paths. The information provided below comes directly from the Career OneStop (https://www.careeronestop.org/) site, a U.S. Department of Labor sponsored resource.
Career clusters are groups of related types of work. They give you an easy way to explore different kinds of jobs within one broad category. Start with one of the clusters—like health care or construction—to learn what it involves, current trends, and the different careers it offers. Visit Career cluster / industry videos to learn about eighteen key industry/career cluster groups:
Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
Architecture and Construction
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications
Business Management and Administration
Education and Training
Energy
Finance
Government and Public Administration
Health Science
Hospitality and Tourism
Human Services
Information Technology
Law, Public Safety, and Corrections
Manufacturing
Marketing
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Telecommunications
Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics