Career Connection

 

Career Connection helps members learn more about themselves, the workplace, and future careers to put themselves on the pathway to success. The projects that members conduct around Career Connection units will give them the confidence to face the thousands of overwhelming options that come with future career decisions.

Career Connection Units

• My Skills – Members learn about themselves and practice being productive, promotable employees by linking their interests, skills, and goals to careers.
• My Life – Members learn to manage interconnected roles in careers, families, and communities by exploring choices and skills that help balance these roles.
• My Career – Members gain a better understanding of work and learn how to find and land a job.
• My Path – Members identify steps to reach career and lifestyle goals.

Career Connection made possible by Goodheart Willcox.

Career Connections projects help members find career interests.

Here are a few ways to use this National Program.

• Set up a team of career tutors in your school.
• Assemble and distribute a directory of local employers who hire young people.
• Develop and present interview do’s and don’ts skits.
• Assemble a transportation career fair for little children with vehicles and career areas in your school parking lot (police cars, fire trucks,  construction vehicles, delivery trucks, home health care cars, etc) and their corresponding career persons.