[Counselors] Career Days

Tue Mar 3 13:13:03 CST 2015

We work with Seward County Community College/Area Technical School. It has changed from year to year, but basicly the eighth graders pick an area they are interested in and spend about an hour in that area. They then get a tour of the college, giving them an overview of all of the different career training opportunities are available.

On 03/03/15, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board  <counselors at lists.onenet.net> wrote:
> We do a career day event that works great... We usually do this over a half-day. Either we just have the sessions- or we have also started out with a guest speaker addressing all students prior to breakout session talking about "secrets of success" or planning for college, careers in general. 
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> In the break out sessions, we have 5 sessions of 20 minutes in length with 5 minutes between each session. One of the mandatory sessions for 9th & 10 is interview/job skills. The juniors and seniors do a mock interview as one of their session (Kids line up to interview in order of arrival and wait for their turn, I have several community volunteer interviewers, and they each briefly interview 2-3 kids during each 20 minute session.) I ask the mock interviewers use a feedback form to give students feedback on how they did, and give suggestions, etc. I have found that the interviewer volunteers enjoy this, and have even had students get hired for real jobs! 
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> If time allows, I recommend going into classrooms and doing a resume building lesson with them before hand or enlisting the help of your English teachers on this. I have also used incentives and prizes for top interviewees (prize tickets for those who bring their resume, do a good job, etc. for end of day drawing). 
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> As for sessions, I try to get enough speakers so that we can have each session with 20 or less students. I just try to get a variety of alums, parents, community members and college reps to allow for enough sessions. I get everything confirmed and go into classes about a week ahead and talk to kids about career day and let them pick their top 5 session requests. I work up their schedule in advance with the help my student aids. It is a lot of coordination, but something that usually works great in the end. You could also pre-determine that everyone goes through sessions as a group by grade to save prep time, but I have found the kids really enjoy getting to pick their own sessions. 
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> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:51 PM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board <counselors at lists.onenet.net> wrote:
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> > Do any counselors have ideas for hosting a Career Day at school?
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Ed Poley
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Tyrone Schools
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