<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Hope this helps!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:51 PM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:counselors@lists.onenet.net" target="_blank">counselors@lists.onenet.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Do any counselors have ideas for hosting a Career Day at school?<br>
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Jessica Sauls<br>
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Hugo High School<br>
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