Career Planning

In the Life Transitions 30 Curriculum there is a unit on career planning. Too many students are graduating from high school with no idea as to what they want to do for a career. Many people change their minds once they are already in a source of post-secondary school and to have more career development for our students would limit this from happening. It is important for schools to see the importance of career development because it is helping students make decisions that will affect their future. I found a great online test that would help students to maybe narrow down their options on what they wanted to be when they were done school.

The website is called Project Career and on this site there is an online test for students to do. You have to sign up but it is free and easy. Once the students have signed up and done the 40 questions it will give you a suitable future job for them. I did this and it came up as I would best fit into the profession of teaching. I would incorporate this into the classroom by having the students first write down on a piece of paper what job they think would best suit them right now. I would then have the students take the online test and see if it matched to what they had written down. I think that many students would be surprised to see what they are actually suitable to be. This would get the students thinking about their future and what they wanted to do. Then we would discuss what they had written down on the paper and what the website gave them for a career. I would ask if they would pick the new profession or stick to the original or maybe they were the same. I have a cousin in this class right now and they did a test similar to this and he said that the students loved it and it really gave them some great ideas as to what they wanted to do when they were finished high school.

I think the students would love this activity and it would give them some possible guidance as to what kind of career to pursue in the future. I know when I was in school I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was done. A fun interactive test like this really could have helped me out with that.