Engaging Students

The more exposure students have to future career opportunities and the world of work, the more likely they are to choose a career that’s right for them – where they’ll be happy and successful. It’s our job to help students get that exposure.

Through CareerPrep 2030, we're working with schools, business partners and community leaders to engage with kindergarten through 12th grade students on career awareness and how they can prepare throughout their education journey.

Career preparation is more than just learning the "Three Rs" of education. It is also being involved in extra-curricular activities that hone specific skills, or after-school jobs that lead to vital networking connections. It can also mean learning teamwork and discipline through athletics.

School can be fun, but it is also a pathway to the future. We want to help equip all areas of our community with the ability to touch the student's journey through the educational system.

Students can participate in Career Chats, our virtual Career Exploration Series and school counselors and educators can bring students to learn about area careers in our Talk & Tour series. There are also dozens of different career quizzes, personality tests, and ways of building Educational Development Plans to get students engaged to get glimpses of their futures.

Grow Main Street Built with Google Cloud, Grow MainStreet is a hands-on, competency based, STEM Computer Science career exploration exercise, designed for students 7 years old and up. Grow MainStreet introduces students to major industries including: Construction, Energy, Manufacturing, Transportation, Healthcare, Public Safety, Water and Public Sewage, Agriculture, Consumer Goods, the careers, skills and job functions, finances, and technology namely the Google Cloud is used in each industry. Grow Main Street

Scribe When you feel ready to start looking for a job, creating your Talent Profile on Frontend Mentor provides another channel for you to open up job opportunities. Our Hiring Platform allows recruiters to sign up, search for talent from within the Frontend Mentor community, and then make contact. By creating a strong Talent Profile, you can increase your chances of being noticed and potentially land your dream job! Scribe Talent Profile

Skills2Business Throughout the Talent Chain, skills are the critical component. S2B enables entities of all types and sizes to identify the critical skills that drive their operations and it empowers them to collaborate with others to educate, train, and recruit high-skilled talent for the future. Skills2Business

Educational Development Plans

So, what comes next for the student graduating high school? Hopefully, they have a plan for either continuing their education in college or a trade school, or maybe they can go to work right away with the skills they learned with CTE or Work-Based Learning.

The planning should have started much earlier in their educational journey. There are, of course, hundreds of surveys and interest tests and skills inventories that students can take anywhere along their path, but what else can schools and guidance counselors provide?

On our Plan My Future page, we have several links and resources that can help guided students and schools to be prepared at graduation.