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The CLA Career Readiness Guide covers, in-depth, all of the career-related topics you’ll need to consider as a liberal arts student. Access the guide online!

CLA Career Readiness Internship Guide

For a comprehensive guide to making your internship the best experience it can be, see the CLA Career Readiness Internship Guide: Making the Most of Your Internship. Access the guide online!

These handouts are specialized content for tailored career interests.

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The worksheets below correspond with the CLA Career Readiness Guide so that you can reflect, make progress, and take action steps now on any or all of these career topics. They are configured to be fillable PDFs, meaning you can type in the fields provided directly on your computer! 

You will find the link to the fillable PDF worksheet for that topic in the first column in the table below. In the second column, you will find the link to the corresponding section of the CLA Career Readiness Guide that you can use to complete that worksheet. There are links to sections of the CLA Career Readiness Guide that are also mentioned within the worksheets.

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Career and College Exploration Experiences: Planning for Success

January 4, 2019

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This guide offers detailed information and resources to help you provide middle and high school students with opportunities to explore their options for the future through Career and College Exploration Experiences.

A Career and College Exploration Experience (CCEE) is an opportunity for students to learn about options for careers and colleges and connect what they learn in the classroom to what will be expected of them in the workplace or college.

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Career exploration guided activity

• August 12, 2020

Are you interested in going to college but unsure about your major? Do you know what career you would like to pursue but don’t know what degree or certification you’ll need to receive first? Or maybe you know earning a degree is a valuable investment but aren’t quite sure how a degree correlates to career opportunities. Our career exploration activity is a great place to start.

Many students begin their journey toward earning a college degree or certificate with lots of questions about their career path. And that’s okay! Choosing a degree or certificate program at a college or university is a big decision, and knowing your career path first will allow you to choose the right program. If you are able to identify a handful of career paths that interest you, you will be able to select a postsecondary program that matches your career goals.

You can use the O*Net Interest Profiler to learn more about career opportunities that align with your interests. Keep track of your research in the Career Exploration Activity workbook .

Step 1: Check out the O*Net Interest Profiler

The Occupational Information Network Program, or O*NET for short, is a great resource for learning about different careers or jobs and what types of education you’ll need to be successful. To help navigate their database of information, they created the O*NET Interest Profiler .

Step 2: Fill out your profiler

Answering a series of questions to understand interests can help you decide which kind of career you might enjoy.

You will rate 60 areas of interest on a scale from Strongly Dislike to Strongly Like. There are no right or wrong answers, and don’t take into account whether you know how to perform the task or how much you would be paid to complete the task. Simply rate your interest in performing each of the tasks.

Step 3: Review your results

After you finish the interest profiler, you will receive a score in six areas of interest: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional.

Review your interest profiler results, and learn more about what each area of interest means.

Step 4: Explore different job zones

We recommend exploring at least five different job zones. Each zone represents a different level of training, experience, and education that is needed to perform the responsibilities of these careers.

Don’t be deterred by jobs that require higher levels of education. Keep in mind that by 2030, 60 percent or more of all new jobs will require some level of higher education. While today, only 42 percent of Texans between the ages of 25 and 34 have an associate’s degree or higher. This means that earning a postsecondary education is an investment in your job security.

Step 5: Explore your career list

Check out the career summary pages for careers from all five job zones. Each career summary page will provide information about what you would do in that career, the knowledge, skills, and abilities you would need, as well as the education level required and the job outlook.

Make sure you have your  Personality Test Guided Activity handy to connect your personality type with different careers. You’ll also want to have the Texas Reality Check Guided Activity to connect your desired lifestyle with the expected salary for different occupations.

Step 5: Complete the My Next Move Career Matrix

Identify four different careers that especially interest you, and complete the chart.

• Career: Insert the career name that interests you.
• Why This Career: What stands out to you about this career? This response should be personal to you.
• What Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities Stand Out to You: Review each of these sections on the career summary page, and list anything that stands out to you.
• Personality: Check out your results from the Personality Test Guided Activity to connect your personality type with different careers.
• Job Outlook: Are new job opportunities in this career very likely, average, or below average?
• Median Salary: Look at your results from the Texas Reality Check Guided Activity to connect your desired lifestyle with the expected salary for different occupations.
• Required Education or Training: What are the degree requirements for this career? Keep in mind that degree requirements that are listed are often the minimum requirements, and attaining a higher level of education can correspond to a higher salary in the same career field.

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Career-Related Classroom Assignments

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To help bridge academic and career development, we’ve compiled career-related classroom assignments that are “ready to go” or can be modified to meet specific needs. These assignments come with student resources, grading rubrics, and other aides to facilitate teaching.

Skills Assessment Assignment

• Skills Assessment Assignment (pdf)
• Skills Inventory Form (pdf)
• Transferable Skills List (pdf)  

Career Exploration Assignment

• Career Exploration Assignment (pdf)
• MassCIS Guide (pdf)  
• Occupational Research Worksheet (pdf)

Resume Writing Assignment

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• Effective Resume Guide (pdf)  
• Resume Critique Rubric (pdf)

LinkedIn Profile Assignment

• LinkedIn Profile Assignment (pdf)
• LinkedIn Profile Guide (pdf)
• Profile Critique Rubric (pdf)

Informational Interviewing Assignment

• Informational Interviewing Assignment (pdf)
• Informational Interviewing Guide (pdf)
• Job Correspondence Guide (pdf)

Handshake Job Exploration Assignment 

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• Job Analysis Outline (pdf)

Career Fair Assignment

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• Myths & Realities (pdf)  
• What to Wear (pdf)  
• Elevator Pitch (pdf)  

Behavioral Interviewing Preparation Assignment 

• Behavioral Interviewing Preparation Assignment (pdf)
• Behavioral Interviewing Guide (pdf)  
• Employers’ Common Questions (pdf)  

Job-Qualifications Bridging Exercise

• Job Qualifications Bridging Exercise Assignment (pdf)
• Job Analysis Outline (pdf)  

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Career Exploration Ideas: How to Get Students Excited About Career Planning

Choosing your life’s work doesn’t happen overnight. For many people, it takes years of trial and error that may include post-secondary education and a series of jobs that aren’t the right fit.  What if we could help the next generation avoid that painful process? Imagine a world where students graduated from high school with confidence in their strengths, a strong sense of purpose, and a clear pathway to a meaningful career that’s especially suited to them?  Educators and counselors have already begun to sow the seeds of future fulfilment in their students by embedding career exploration into their lessons for children as young as 3 rd grade. It’s a concept that can be woven into just about any subject and is highly compatible with social-emotional curriculum activities.  Let’s look at some ways you can introduce career exploration into your classroom or virtual classroom—at any grade level.

What Is Career Exploration?

Meaningful career exploration for students is two-pronged. It involves:

• Reflecting on an individual’s own interests, strengths, skills, values, and preferences. Students are encouraged to engage in self-discovery with exercises that answer questions like: 
• Which subjects do I most enjoy and excel in? 
• What kind of things do I like to do outside of school?
• What kind of activities do I do that make time feel like it’s flying by? (This is a good indication of flow , an important component of happiness and satisfaction.)
• Attributes of careers, i.e. core tasks involved, average salary, working conditions, etc.
• What kind of qualifications one might need to achieve each job, i.e. post-secondary study, experience, etc.
• How some careers connect to others, i.e. an engineer could also get a job as a project manager, salesperson, technician, etc.

Why Is Career Exploration Important for Students?

Every good explorer starts a journey with a map. Conditions may cause them to alter their plans and they may learn new information that leads them to change directions, but having a guiding force is a helpful way to create and retain a strong sense of purpose throughout every adventure. When we make career exploration part of the framework for every student’s education, they learn to think beyond the day’s math test or history lesson—and connect the dots between what they are learning and how they might apply it in the future. This often leads to improved engagement, higher achievement levels, reduced absenteeism, and increased graduation rates. When students have a good understanding of the working world, they can imagine how they might fit into it someday. They can prepare for the kind of career they want by setting goals, choosing courses, and focusing on extracurricular activities that support their future. Best of all, students who participate in career exploration activities often develop a stronger sense of self-esteem and self-knowledge. They naturally begin to build social-emotional learning skills such as organization, communication, problem-solving, and even financial literacy because they’re focused on achieving a goal. 

What Are Some Career Exploration Tools?

[xo-module id=”13083″] Gone are the days when educators and counselors have to rely on outdated worksheets that have been circulating since the 1980s. Today’s career exploration tools include sophisticated EdTech programs and creative ideas to engage learners of all ages.

• Xello : College and career readiness software that helps students build self-knowledge, personalized future readiness plans and critical life skills.
• WeTeachNYC : An online education community with a free unit on career exploration
• Bizworld.org : Career Exploration Lesson Plan for Grades 3-5 and 6-8.
• Teachers Pay Teachers: Career exploration trivia game and career exploration activities . 
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada: Learning and career development programs  

Career Exploration Activities for Elementary Students

The Forest Hills School District in Cincinnati has students as young as third grade participating in career exploration using college and career readiness software Xello. They start by playing ‘Career Town’, a game that underlines the variety of work and workers in a community, and the importance of every worker in a community.  School Counselor Kate McKenzie also has students in Grades 3-5 log their interests and achievements in Xello. “I want to get them thinking about, ‘What am I good at?’, ‘What do I like to do?’ It lends itself beautifully to goal setting and expanding their hobbies. They can start expanding their experiences which will help them craft a better story of themselves as they grow up,” she said. Other tried-and-true career exploration activities for primary students include:

• Bringing in parents and community members to share what it’s like to do their jobs. Take special care to ensure diversity and an equitable gender spread so every student can see themselves in at least one career.
• Asking students to reflect on what they enjoy and what they’re good at and then connecting that to a career. Many educators assign a ‘poster project’ in which students create colorful posters to depict the career.
• On field trips, taking special note of the careers at the museum, zoo, art gallery, or theater presentation. Ask hosts to share a little about their job as part of their presentations.

Career Exploration Activities for Middle School Students

Grades 6-8 are often considered the prime beneficiaries for career exploration activities. They are at an age when they are especially receptive to “cool” jobs and they understand the connection between careers, salaries, and the kind of lifestyle they want.  This is also a time when they will need to choose their high school courses, some of which are specialized pathways to a particular area of post-secondary study. This is where self-knowledge is especially important so they can make informed decisions that will affect their future. Career exploration activities for this group include:

• What a typical day is like
• Salary range
• Education requirements
• How/why they chose that career
• I want to work inside / outside all day.
• I want to work by myself / I want to work with other people as much as possible. 
• I want to use technology / work with my hands and/or people. 

Then have them pick three careers based on what they’ve chosen. Tools like Xello will help them narrow it down.

• Once they have highlighted three possible careers, have them chart the path to get there. What type of courses should they take in high school? Are there extracurricular activities that would give them experience? What kind of post-secondary education would lead them to that career?

Career Exploration Activities for High School Students

By this point, students should have some idea of their strengths, challenges, and passions. The goal is to avoid high school seniors who have absolutely no idea what their future holds. This is a time to double down on career exploration activities in as many classes as possible.  Activities include:

• Assigning take-home assignments focused on helping students define career options that are a good fit for them.
• Asking students to consider and present non-degree post-secondary pathways, i.e. apprenticeship programs.
• Having students uncover five “hidden” jobs each, i.e. not teacher, engineer, baker or mechanic. Ask them to find roles like HR specialist, content marketing strategist, forensic science technician, or computer network architect and present them to the class. 

School districts everywhere are increasingly recognizing the importance of career exploration, particularly when programs and activities satisfy mandates like ESSA .  More importantly, educators understand that the ripple effects of students who are engaged, have self-knowledge, and understand how they might one day fit into their communities are much more likely to choose the right post-secondary pathway for them.  A generation of purposeful adults who set and achieve the right career goals for them? When career exploration is integrated into education, it’s not only possible; it’s probable.

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Explore Tuapse: A Dive into the Heart of Krasnodar’s Coastal Gem

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1. Introduction

Tuapse, the administrative center of the Tuapsinsky District in Krasnodar Krai, stands proudly on the eastern shore of the Black Sea. Let’s delve into the city’s intriguing facets, from its historical roots to its pivotal role in regional economics.

2. Historical Tapestry

The name “ Tuapse ” traces back to ancient times, with the Adyghe word meaning “confluence” or “a place below the confluence of two rivers.” This area’s historical significance dates as far back as the VI–II centuries BCE, evidenced by the Greek transcription “Topsida.” It was a bustling center of trade, particularly in the era of the Shapsugs, an Adyghe sub-ethnic group.

3. Geographic Marvels

Nestled amid the foothills of the Main Caucasus Range, Tuapse boasts a prime location on the Black Sea coast. The city is graced by the estuaries of the Tuapse and Pauk rivers, adding to its natural allure. Explore the captivating landscapes that have captivated visitors for centuries.

4. Climate Bliss

Tuapse enjoys a humid subtropical climate, making it a haven for those seeking pleasant weather. The coldest months, January and February, maintain a positive average temperature of around +5°C. Summers, stretching from late April to September, bring sunny, warm, and moderately humid conditions, with July and August recording average temperatures of +23°C.

5. Economic Backbone

A key player in the economic landscape, Tuapse thrives in industries like oil processing, transportation, and food production. Its strategic location as a transport hub along the Black Sea coast solidifies its importance in connecting with resort destinations like Sochi and facilitating the export of essential raw materials.

6. Transportation Hub

Tuapse’s significance in transportation extends to various modes, including road, rail, and sea. Numerous major enterprises in these sectors contribute to the city’s status as a vital node for both domestic and international trade. Explore the wheels and waves that keep Tuapse in constant motion.

7. Tourism Dynamics

Despite its industrial and transportation prowess, Tuapse faces challenges in developing its tourism sector. The city serves as a transit point for tourists heading to nearby resorts like Nebug, Agoy, Ol’ginka, and Shepsi, as well as those in the Lazarevsky District of Sochi. Discover how Tuapse’s unique position influences its role in the tourism realm.

8. Cultural and Archaeological Treasures

Tuapse’s surroundings are adorned with archaeological wonders, including numerous Bronze Age dolmens. The Kiselyova Rock, situated beyond Cape Kadosh, has become a popular attraction. Uncover the historical and cultural gems that await exploration in Tuapse and its neighboring areas.

9. Conclusion

Tuapse, with its blend of history, geography, and economic importance, emerges as a multifaceted destination. As we conclude our journey through this coastal gem, the echoes of its past and the rhythms of its present continue to shape its vibrant identity.

This comprehensive guide to Tuapse aims to provide valuable insights for those seeking information about the city, its history, and its contemporary significance.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) – Tuapse Exploration Guide

1. What is the historical significance of Tuapse?

• Tuapse holds historical roots dating back to the VI–II centuries BCE, known as Topsida in Greek transcription. It was a significant center of trade, particularly during the era of the Shapsugs, an Adyghe sub-ethnic group.

2. Where is Tuapse located?

• Tuapse is situated on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, nestled in the foothills of the Main Caucasus Range. It serves as the administrative center of the Tuapsinsky District in Krasnodar Krai.

3. What is the climate like in Tuapse?

• Tuapse experiences a humid subtropical climate. The coldest months, January and February, maintain a positive average temperature of around +5°C, while summers, from late April to September, bring sunny and warm conditions with average temperatures of +23°C in July and August.

4. What are the key economic sectors in Tuapse?

• Tuapse thrives in industries such as oil processing, transportation, and food production. Its strategic location as a transport hub along the Black Sea coast enhances its economic significance.

5. How does Tuapse contribute to transportation in the region?

• Tuapse plays a vital role as a transportation hub, encompassing road, rail, and sea transport. Several major enterprises contribute to its status as a crucial node for both domestic and international trade.

6. What challenges does Tuapse face in developing its tourism sector?

• Despite favorable climate and natural conditions, Tuapse faces challenges in developing tourism due to its industrial and transportation focus. The city primarily serves as a transit point for tourists heading to nearby resorts.

7. What are the cultural and archaeological attractions in Tuapse?

• Tuapse and its surroundings boast archaeological wonders, including Bronze Age dolmens. The Kiselyova Rock, located beyond Cape Kadosh, is a popular attraction. These sites offer a glimpse into the rich cultural history of the region.

8. How can tourists explore Tuapse and its neighboring areas?

• Tourists can explore Tuapse by using its well-connected transportation infrastructure. The city serves as a transit point for those heading to resorts like Nebug, Agoy, Ol’ginka, and Shepsi, as well as Lazarevsky District in Sochi.

9. What recent changes or updates are there in Tuapse?

• The latest update as of April 28, 2022, mentions no specific changes. It is advisable to check official sources for the most recent information about Tuapse.

These FAQs aim to provide additional information and address common queries related to the Tuapse Exploration Guide.

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