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My Career Journey
Online Career Exploration for 8th-9th Graders
This fun, friendly virtual school provides students with access to resources to help connect their own interests, values and knowledge, skills and abilities to real opportunities in the workplace. Through on-line career exploration activities and inventories, students access information about careers and career clusters they may be interested in pursuing, as well as the training required to reach their goals.
Each youth participating with My Career Journey will receive a comprehensive and personalized career “Career Journal.” This multi-page document written from the perspective of a caring career counselor weaves the data provided by the online inventories and activities into a meaningful and fun review of relevant opportunities in appropriate post-secondary education, careers, and career clusters.
Features:
- Youth complete online inventories that uncover their interests, values, skills, knowledge and abilities
- The Career Library includes over 1000 interactive career cards and 16 cluster cards linked to valuable career exploration resources
- Each youth is given a locker containing their Career Story notebook and a Favorite Careers Folder
- Website activities are address to meet the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Career Education and Work
- Tracking and reporting system captures data for easy monitoring and evaluation
- Complete story can be written in under 2 hours of online activity
- Free online training; Face-to-face training available
- Program is designed to be self-paced
- Abilities and Aptitudes
- Interests
- Work Values
- Non-Traditional Workplace Roles
- Career Clusters and Pathways
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