This website is no longer being updated. Please visit the JCPS CTE Career Pathways Portal to learn more about Career Development in JoCo.
The career development program at the high school level is coordinated by school-based Career Development Coordinators (CDCs). In addition to coordinating work-based learning, supporting Career & Technical Education (CTE) programs, and facilitating career development activities, they work closely with the Student Services team to develop a strategy for implementing the Career Development Plan (CDP).
Pre-Work
Add experiences (3+)
Review and updated saved skills (5+) and interests (5+)
Upload artifact(s) to storyboard portfolio (1+)
CDP Activities
Skills Lab
Review and update saved careers (3+) and favorite career clusters (2+)
Review and update the high school course plan
Reflection and goal setting
Core Xello Lessons:
Exploring Career Factors
Getting Experience
Recommended Xello Lessons
Personality Styles
Study Skills and Habits
A Cleveland High School student learns about bone fractures in a CTE Health Sciences course.
Pre-Work
Add experiences (3+)
Review and updated saved skills (5+) and interests (5+)
Upload artifact(s) to storyboard portfolio (1+)
CDP Activities
Reset and retake Matchmaker career interest inventories (3)
Review and update saved careers (3+) and favorite career clusters (2+)
Set After High School... goal in profile
Save at least three (3) majors/programs
Review and update high school course plan
Reflection and goal setting
Core Xello Lessons:
Careers and Lifestyle Costs
Program Prospects
Recommended Xello Lessons
Work Values
Workplace Skills and Attitudes
Culinary arts students from Smithfield-Selma High School's Family & Consumer Sciences program compete at NC ProStart Student Invitational.
Pre-Work
Review and update:
favorite career clusters (2+),
skills (5+),
interests (5+), and
saved careers (3+) and majors/programs (3+).
Add experiences (3+)
Upload artifact(s) to storyboard portfolio (1+)
CDP Activities
Save at least three (3+) schools
Create a plan in Goals & Plans
Recommend using a career as a starting point
Title the plan "Primary Career Plan"
Explore Xello's College Planning Knowledge Hub
Review and update high school course plan
Reflection and goal setting
Core Xello Lessons:
Career Demand
Choosing a College
Recommended Xello Lesson
Entrepreneurial Skills
Work/Life Balance
Students at Princeton High School learn about the connections between STEM and the automotive industry from a guest speaker.
Pre-Work
Review and update:
primary career plan (inc. saved careers, majors/programs, and schools),
After High School... goal in profile, and
favorite career clusters (2+).
Add experiences (3+)
Upload artifact(s) to storyboard portfolio (1+)
Explore Xello's College Planning Knowledge Hub
CDP Activities
Create a backup plan in Goals & Plans
Recommend using a career as a starting point
Title the plan "Backup Career Plan"
Confirm FAFSA submission
Update/create resume
Reflection and goal setting
Core Xello Lessons:
Career Path Choices
Career Backup Plans
Recommended Xello Lesson
Job Interviews
Defining Success
To be able to access Xello after graduation, seniors should add a personal email address to their account.
Once their high school single sign-on is no longer available to them, graduates will sign in through the Xello login page: https://login.xello.world. If a graduate has forgotten their password, they click on Having trouble signing in? to have reset instructions sent to their personal email rather than an inaccessible school email address.
A JCPS student learns on-the-job and earns college-credit as a Caterpillar PreApprentice.