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Career Exploration

Futuriti: Explore Career Opportunities in Kentucky

Career exploration offers students and their families valuable tools to help align their educational plans with student interests, values, and career goals, providing insight into potential careers and the skills and credentials needed in various career fields.

Advising Quick Guide PDFs:

Career Exploration Considerations

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Benefits of Postsecondary Credentials

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Types of Colleges 

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Work Ready Dual Credit Scholarship

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Glossary of Terms 

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Types of Workforce Training

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Apprenticeships in Kentucky

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Additional Resources for Practitioners

American School Counselor Association Career Conversation Starter Guides

Begin career planning with your students with this conversation guide for middle and high school students. 

Career Studies Standards

Learn more about Kentucky's Academic Standards for Career Studies and Financial Literacy.

Apprenticeship USA

Apprenticeship.govWith Apprenticeship.gov, you have a one stop source to find apprenticeship opportunities, learn about apprenticeships and its benefits, and learn about industries supporting apprenticeships.

TRACK: Tech Ready Apprentices for Careers in Kentucky:

Learn more about this Youth Apprenticeship Program that provides secondary students with pathway opportunities into Registered Apprenticeship programs. This is a partnership between Kentucky Department of Education's CTE office and Kentucky Office of Apprenticeships. 

Job Corps

Learn more about this free education and training program for young people ages 16-24. Through the program, participants receive hands-on career training, as well as support services such as housing, health care, and meals. The program is administered by the U.S. Department of Labor.

KDE Work-Based Learning Manual

Get more information on the various types of work-based learning opportunities such as job shadowing, mentoring, service learning, entrepreneurship programs, school-based enterprises, internship, cooperative education and youth-apprenticeship opportunities.

Career and Technical Education by KDE

Learn more about CTE programs and its requirements. 

Career Pathways and Program of Studies by OCTE-KDE:

Find out information on what CTE courses are required for CTE pathway completion.  

KnowHow2Transfer by CPE

Identify course credit type and transferability to Kentucky institutions through this searchable database. 

Kentucky Career Center

Identify apprenticeships, get support with building a resume or finding a job, and connect with people in the field.

The Kentucky Advising Academy and the Advising Toolkit is sponsored by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.

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