Developed by:  Azmat Moinuddin

Level:  8  

Career Interests and Shadowing

 
 

Standards


Learning Expectations

 This activity will help students acquire competencies which relate to the following standards:

4.0  Career Awareness and Employment Readiness Skills
5.0  Career Information and Career Goals
6.0  Knowledge and Skills to Achieve Career Goals

This activity will help students meet the following learning expectations:

4.1  demonstrate awareness of personal abilities, work habits, skills, and interests
4.2  locate, evaluate, and utilize skills to interpret career information based on interests
4.3  practice planning, decision-making, and goal setting
4.4  explore and relate personal interests and hobbies to career options
5.1  explore various occupations and classify into career clusters
5.2  use technology and other resources to research and obtain career information
6.1  demonstrate how interests, abilities, and achievement relate to personal, social, educational, and career goals
6.4  apply academic and job readiness skills in career related activities
 

General Approach
The general approach is that children will utilize online sources to identify career interests and participate in a job shadowing experience.  This will be followed by a counselor-led discussion. 

Activity Steps
  • Print career interests worksheet for each student.
  • Provide each student with worksheet and ensure that they have a writing utensil.
  • Explain to students that they will be using an online resource to complete their worksheets. 
  • Provide students with the following web address: https://secure.ncmentor.org/CareerMatch/
  • Have students use the above online career resource and research three career pathways of interest to complete their worksheets.
  • Provide students with the following web address that exposes them to virtual job shadowing of different occupations: http://www.jobshadow.monster.com/
  • Help the students navigate the virtual job shadowing website, along with directing them to some useful personal interests and abilities links under the Your Career tab in this website.
  • Have students share their findings in a group with each other.  Follow up with the students about other resources to gather pertinent career information.

Time Required

 This activity may require two 30-minute sessions.  The children can utilized the online career resources worksheet activity in the first session, and participate in the job shadowing online resource in the second session.  Children may need assistance in navigating the website. 

Resources Needed

Performance Indicators

 During this activity, the student will be able to use technology to explore a variety of career clusters, explore interests, hobbies, and various occupations, and determine how personal interests and abilities relate to career choices.  The student will also be able to assess work based readiness skills through virtual job shadowing.