
Career Development Curriculum
(Virtual)
Choose Your Career Path
Example Career Paths
Animal Care
Hospitality
Health Care
Retail
Customized Path
Clerical
Recreation
Retail
The retail industry features small businesses and chain stores that sell products directly to individual consumers. These businesses can be categorized based on their signature products into "hard" and "soft" retailers. Industry experts also classify retailers as department stores, discount stores, and niche businesses.
Recipe for Success
The Career Plan outlines important stages of your career development necessary to achieve your career goals. It will serve as a guide in keeping track of what you need to do to transform your career dreams into a reality.
Education
Understand what I have achieved and what I must achieve to make career attainment a reality.
Complete the education outline to keep me on track
Professional Development
Learn the key skills involved with that career
Develop a resume and cover letter
Dive into best practices for interviews
Career Exploration
Select 3 career choices from the ONET Profiler Exercise
Do some research about the specifics of that career
Look into the education needed in that career path
Self Assessment
List current education and professional qualties
Complete an ONET Profiler Exercise
Explore Job Zones within your career area
Outline Career Goal
Define a career goal
Set a goal for the current year and one year plus
Set a work schedule and deadlines to meet each goal
Marketing Tools
Learn best practices for successful job searches
Learn how to build your own network of professionals
Learn about your specific education pathway
Earn Your Certificate
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Student Takeaways (2021 & 2022)
Karlos

Education Level
Still in high school
Career Track
Animal Care
Biggest take always were the unknown common knowledge I didn't have
Eric

Education Level
Still in high school
Career Track
Animal Care
My experience with interview match was great I learned a lot of very easy things that help with animal care.
Tyler

Education Level
Still in high school
Career Track
Healthcare, Hospitality
It has impacted my career growth by me learning many things related to jobs and acquiring a job. It taught me what cover letters where which before this program didn't know a lot about. It taught me how to be prepared for interviews and overall what to expect in the job process.
Diya

Education Level
Still in high school
Career Track
Hospitality
Although I was placed later on in the program, I really enjoyed being a part of it! We learned about skills such as Active learning, Negotiation, Service Orientation, Coordinating with others, Professional Etiquette, Public Speaking, etc. My biggest takeaway from this entire program was learning about interviewing, in detail. Not only did we learn about what interview questions to expect but also questions we should ask the interviewer. Furthermore, we learned about the correct timing of when to ask questions and put certain information out there during an interview session. Learning about the different types of interviews, interview structures/styles, identifying and how to respond to of illegal or uncomfortable interview questions was also really helpful. This was the biggest takeaway for me because we often learn basic interview information and etiquette, however through this program I was able to learn on how to prepare myself in a confident and informed manor for an interview. Thank You!

