This course helps students explore careers and develop skills to make meaningful decisions about their future. Students discover the many factors to consider when selecting a suitable career path and assess their personal strengths and interests as they relate to career choices. The course equips students with strategies to make an effective transition from school to work. 

• Get Ready for the World of Work:  Explore the skills needed for career success and link personal interests, skills and goals to careers; Theory of Career Development, Common Language Skills, Employer Expectations; Video: The Pursuit of Happy-ness

• Career Exploration: Explore choices and skills that help manage options and roles faced in balancing work and life; Personality development and connecting to career possibilities, career pathways, lifelong education, advancing your career, leaving a career

• Tools to Get The Job: Helps young people understand work and learn how to find and land a job; How to find a job, networking, job applications, resume writing, cover letters, job interviews, company research, thank you letters, forms to complete upon hiring, professional emailing skills, Job Shadows; Workplace Laws (Video: The Front of the Class); Video: The Bee Movie (subject to change)

• Become a Certified Tourism Ambassador (CTA) through Explore Brighton Howell Area Visitor’s Bureau

• Personal Finance: choosing a financial institution, understand financial well-being, checking pay stubs, investing, smart spending, credit basics, insurance, identity fraud 

• Guest Presentations: Email the teacher if you would like to visit the classroom to share about your career; LOC Credit Union presentations and Financial Reality Fair

Enrolled students have an opportunity to join FCCLA.  

Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is a national nonprofit student organization that helps youth develop leadership and workplace skills to prepare for both college and careers through peer-to-peer education, community engagement, and the application of skills learned in the Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) classroom.