1. Sophomore Guidance – spring!

2. Agenda
Objectives:
Students will gain a better understanding of Career Clusters
Students will take the Cluster Finder survey
Using Activities of Interest, Personal Qualities and Favorite School Subjects
Students will identify Career Clusters and Careers of interest
Students will complete their Job Shadow Request form
Students will complete their resume

3. Notes for Today For each slide: Summarize the main point of the slide
AND
Define highlighted vocabulary words

4. Your Post-HS Options 4-Year College 2-Year College Trade School
Military
Employment

5. Career Clusters What Are Career Clusters?
A group of related occupations
Helps you to find less-common careers related to ones you commonly hear about
A way to help students find careers, colleges and majors of interest
A way to help students strategically make academic plans

6. Career Cluster Examples
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Architecture and Construction
Arts, A/V Technology and Communications
Business Management and Administration
Education and Training
Finance
Government and Public Administration
Health Science
Hospitality and Tourism
Human Services
Information Technology
Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security
Manufacturing
Marketing
Science, Technology, Engineering and mathematics
Transportation, Distribution and Logistics

7. Career Credit Components
Naviance Activities:
9th, 10th and 11th grade
Cluster Finder Activity today
Career-Related Learning Experience
3-8-hour experience learning about another person’s career
Can be done via: Job Shadow, Career Day/Spotlight, Interview
Complete CRLE Request Form today
Résumé
A document that records your education, service and employment experiences, usually for purpose of a job
Complete Resume Builder Activity today
Senior Meeting

8. Cluster Finder
Select activities that interest you, name some of your personal qualities and pick your favorite school subjects
Once all entered, you will see what clusters best match your choices
You will save your top three clusters to your profile
You will select careers from these clusters to fill out your CRLE Request form

9. Career-related learning experience
You have two options for placement:
Option 1: Chamber of Commerce will place
Requires CRLE Request Form and Resume
You enter your name and information on top of front side
On back side, you enter 3 career interests
Cluster Finder activity can help determine what career interests to use
Chamber will place you at an experience related to your choices
Will be placed in a Career Day, Career Spotlight or Job Shadow
Option 2: You can place yourself with a business contact that you know
You have to fill out your information and theirs on the front of the CRLE Request Form, but leave the backside blank
This is less common

10. Resume
Highlights your experiences in education, community service and employment as well as special skills, awards or positions you’ve held
Easy way to have all your information in one place
Used to apply for jobs, receive letters of recommendation, and to keep track of experiences you’ve had
Should be regularly updated by you
Is part of your senior project portfolio

11. Resume It’s okay if your resume is a little bare
Think of ways you can add to it over the summer!
Today, you must fill in at least these sections:
Education
Skills/Academic Achievement
Important: you need to tie your resume in some way to the career interests you put on your CRLE Request Form
Can be a class, volunteering experience, sport/activity, etc. Ask for help if you need to brainstorm!
Add information in any other sections if you can!