Career Education

Career Life Education is a course required for graduation. It begins the experience and application journey. The content includes: self-assessment, goal setting, lifelong learning, graduation requirements, financial planning, workplace etiquette, local and global labor market trends, essential career and employability skills, post-graduation opportunities, employment standards, workplace safety, and awareness of work experience opportunities.

Career-Life Connections 12 focuses on applying personal career-life management knowledge, skills, and strategies to one’s own personal life journey. It includes:

• Deepening career-life concepts and thoughtful self-knowledge to inform personal lifelong learning choices and post-graduation plans.
• Using self-advocacy and employment marketing strategies, such as creating one’s own effective public profiles.
• Employing developed social capital, such as leadership and collaboration skills, to cultivate community networks.
• Engaging in substantive experiential learning opportunities intended to expand and/or deepen student exposure to career-life possibilities, such as service learning, volunteerism, employment, fieldwork projects, entrepreneurship, and passion projects.
• Designing, assembling, and presenting a capstone to an audience, celebrating the learning journey and the next steps toward preferred futures.