Intro to Careers 

One Semester – ½ credit

Grades 9 -12

No prerequisites

Description: This single semester workshop is designed to help students identify their dream career and provides the information they need to achieve it. Beginning with personality analysis and an interest survey, students explore career fields in which they will be satisfied and successful. They gather career information for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and College Board to find the right path to ensure their success. After extensive exposure to career fields, and based on their interests, they will conduct their own research about an area of interest to them. Finally, they will identify the specific steps they need to accomplish their career goal. Most coursework is project-based.

Students in this class will:

• Learn all about the working world

• Research career & post-secondary education options

• Practice transferable soft skills 

• Create a resume, cover letter and take on a mock job interview

• Learn about labor laws & employee benefits

• Learn about the job search process and create a career plan 

• Learn/Practice valuable workplace success skills

• Learn about entrepreneurship - via a six to eight-week-long PBL project where students create a Food Truck Business from the ground up.

• Interview and meet numerous industry professionals from different career clusters

(Course required for the 5 unit Business Sequence)