Career+Prep+&+Employability

=If there is a substitute for the day, you will need to go to the Sub Notes page.=

**__Requirements:__**

 * ====1.5" 3-Ring Binder with plastic cover slip on front. Please, do NOT write your name on it with a marker.====
 * Pkg. of 50 plastic cover slips to go inside your binder.
 * Flash drive
 * 2-pocket folder

1.1 Why People Work:

 * ====Reasons why people work====
 * ====Difference: Work, Occupation, Job====

1.2 Work Experience Education

 * ====Types of Work Experience Education====
 * ====Benefits of Work Experience (and working)====

2.1 Work Histories

 * ====Explain Work History====
 * ====Describe how knowing about work histories aid career planning====
 * ====Purposes of Jobs====

2.2 Moving Toward a Stable Job

 * ====Discuss how different work histories lead to a stable job====
 * ====List Characteristics of stable jobs====
 * ====Identify 21st Century Skills====

2.3 The Future Begins Now

 * ====Explain benefits of building a good school record====
 * ====Identify what can do to shape own career====

__Future Flow Charts:__ Include skills needed, education/training required, habits/attitudes one should possess to be successful
====__Presidential Work History Essay:__ Use MLA documentation style ; Compare/Contrast 3 US Presidents' work history; Summarize how stable jobs combined together create a work history (& ultimately led them to hold highest position in US). For Research: [|American Presidents]====

12.1 The Decision Making Process

 * ====List & Summarize each step in the decision-making process====
 * ====Understand how to use the decision-making process when making occupational choices====

12.2 Individuals & Decision Making

 * ====Identify and describe different decision-making styles====
 * ====Discuss the need to accept responsibility for career planning====
 * ====Explain three factors that can influence decision making====

13.1 Getting Self-Information

 * ====Discuss how self-information can help you make more satisfying occupational decision====
 * ====Describe the three types of self-information and how they are measured====

13.2 Working with Self-Information

 * ====Explain how interests, aptitudes, and work values may be similar or different====
 * ====Illustrate how interests, aptitudes, and work values may be expressed outside of one's job====

Jung Typlology Test //What is your personality type? How does this relate to career choices?//
====Values Questionnaire //Values inventories are personal examinations of what motivates you and is important to you. These are not as well-defined tools as the Interest Inventories since they are so personal to you.// //**Tip**: One career coach suggests that since it's hard for many people to say what they want make a list of what you didn't like in the past.//====

14.1 The World of Work

 * ====Explain how occupations and industries are grouped====
 * ====Identify Career Clusters and related pathways for occupations====
 * ====Describe trends in the growth of goods & service industries====
 * ====Describe employment trends in occupations====

14.2 Exploring Occupations

 * ====Use SD My Life to conduct occupational searches====
 * ====Save careers to portfolio====
 * ====Discover educational & training requirements as well as other aspects of careers====
 * ====Identify applicable programs at post-secondary institutions & military options====

All students are required to research no less than 5 occupations. Occupational Search Form (SDMyLife) [[file:Occupational Search Form SDMyLife.jnt]]
====All students are required to research no less than 3 post-secondary options. Post Secondary Profile: Post Secondary Research Form: ====

__Job Application [[file:Application Form.jnt]]__
====__Resume/References__ See links for examples. Sample Resumes & Letters for Teens Sample Student Resume Student Resume Examples====

__Cover Letter__ See links for examples. You can also check out the binder (in Keehn's room) of student cover letter examples. Cover Letter to write: [[file:Sample Business Letter.doc]]
====__Request for Letter of Recommendation__: You are required to write 2. When you mail them out, you must include a Self-addressed Stamped Envelope. Also included in your mailing, a __Recommendation Letter Request Form__ filled out. That way, your writer will have an idea of what to write for you.====