Welcome to Career Search! Mrs. Sweigart. Career Search Syllabus Mission of Course: Students will learn skills necessary for enhancing their education,

Welcome to Career Search!Mrs. Sweigart

Career Search Syllabus

Mission of Course: Students will learn skills necessary for enhancing their education, exploring careers, and conducting job searches.

Important Concepts:

Practical Problems

Time Management

Study Skills

Test Taking Tips

Multiple Intelligences

Goals

Resources

Values

Career Portfolio

Skills Inventory

Career ClustersOccupation InventoriesBalancing Work and FamilyCareer SearchJob RetentionCourse MappingCollege SearchResume WritingCover LettersInterviewingCareer Trends

Career Search Syllabus Cont.

Daily Structure:

10 minute writing assignment- Journaling

Practical Problems for the day

Reading or Activity

Review

Project:

Using the information students have gathered throughout the course, they will write a 5 page paper in which they will compare and contrast 3 different career options. The students will select best choice for them based on their skills, abilities and aptitudes and summarize how they came to this conclusion.

Rules and Expectations

ExpectationsStudents should…• have respect for themselves, others,

and the teacher at all times.

• not talk when others are talking.

• be prepared for class each day- the teacher will NOT supply materials.

• be engaged in class discussions, note taking, activities, etc.

• keep track of their own grades by recording assignments on a grade sheet, and checking their Pinnacle account.

Consequences

•Verbal warning•Phone call home•Detention•Office Referral•If behavior continues and alternative assignment will be given and student will not be allowed to participate in class s/he proves that they will cooperate.

* Failure to complete course requirements will result in assignment to LTI until all late work is received.

School Supplies

• 3 Subject Spiral Notebook

• Pens/pencils

• Loose Leaf Paper

• 1 inch 3 ring binder with pockets

• Highlighters

Other Important Things to Know

Check my website! All missed work, lesson plans, etc. are there! Don’t ask me!

Come to class prepared! In the real world no one will have the supplies you need to do

your job!

Pinnacle is IMPORTANT! Know

how to access it and how it works!

Quote of the Day“Often people attempt to live their lives

backwards: they try to have more things, or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do in order to have what you want.” - Margaret Young” (Singer and comedienne)

What Should I Do About…

• Understanding the rules and expectations of the classroom?

• Getting the supplies I need for class?

• Determining what Career Search is all about?

Quote of the Day

“Never be afraid to try something new. The ark was built by an amateur, the Titanic was build by a professional.” - Anonymous


• Working with my group?

• Meeting my classmates?

Quote of the Day

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience” - Robert Fulghum (Author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)


• Understanding Practical Problems?

• Identifying Practical Problems?

Quote of the Day

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.” - Author Unknown


• Thinking about common Practical Problems?

• Identifying the steps to solve a Practical Problem?

Quote of the Day

“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” - Jewish Proverb


• Identifying how I solve problems?

• Learning how I can solve problems more efficiently?

Quote of the Day

“The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.” - Rona Barrett (American gossip columnist and businesswoman)


• Understanding values that influence problem solving?

• Recognizing who affects problem solving?

• Identifying how I affect others by the way I solve problems?

Quote of the Day

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.” - Frank A. Clark (Author and Cartoonist)


• Proving that I understand Practical Problems?

• Interpreting what I have learned?

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Quote of the Day

“Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got.” Theodore Roosevelt (Former President of the United States)


• Proving that I understand Practical Problems?

• Interpreting what I have learned?

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Quote of the Day

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

- Stephen R. Covey (Author)


• Managing my time better?

• Using my school planner?

• Identifying other ways to manage my time?

Quote of the Day

“We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.”

- Stephen R. Covey (Author)


• Balancing my priorities and the things I want to do?

• Finding the time to do everything I am responsible for?

Quote of the Day

“How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.”

- Mignon McLaughlin (Author)


• Getting the most out of High School?

• Taking notes?

• Reading for information?

• Enhancing my study skills?

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Quote of the Day

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” - Dale Carnegie (Motivational speaker and author)


• Enhancing my study skills?• Using my study skills to become a better test

taker?• Performing better on different kinds of tests?• Releaving test anxiety?

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Quote of the Day

“Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.” - Howard Gardner (Psychologist)


• Identifying my learning style?

• Using my learning style to enhance my education?

• Understanding how I learn best?

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Quote of the Day

“Learning is not a spectator sport.” - Anonymous


• Making a plan of action to help me learn better?

• Combining my learning style with study skills and test taking tips to make me a better student?

Quote of the Day

“For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes- not that you won or lost- but how you played the game.” - Grantland Rice (Sportswriter)


• Learning how I can set goals to accomplish my dreams?

• Setting realistic and achieveable goals?

• Achieving my goals?

Quote of the Day

“Little victories add up.” - Sam Wyly (Entrepeaneur and Author)


• Planning my goals to achieve what I want in the future?

• Identifying what resources I have available to help me achieve my goals?

Quote of the Day

“We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.” Aristotle (Philosopher)


• Identifying my values?

• Understanding about universal values?

• Identifying why values are important in achieving my goals?

Quote of the Day

“The best careers advice to give to the young is ‘Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.’” Katherine Whitehorn (British Journalist)


• Understanding Ohio Career Information Systems (OCIS)?

• Creating an online career portfolio?

• Starting my Individual Academic Career Plan (IACP)?

Quote of the Day

”Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much time managing their lives. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.” Reese Witherspoon (Actress)


• Navigating through OCIS?

• Creating an online career portfolio?

• Starting my Individual Academic Career Plan (IACP)?

Quote of the Day

“Analyzing what you haven’t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.” Orison Swett Marden (American Writer)


• Recognizing and using the different applications available in OCIS:– IDEAS– SKILLS– Career Clusters Inventory– Interest Profile– Work Importance Locator– Occupations Match

Quote of the Day

“Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual.” Homa Bahrami (Lecturer Hass School of Business)



Quote of the Day

“A career is born in public, talent in privacy.” Marilyn Monroe (Actress)



Quote of the Day

”The career of a write is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for the money.” Marcel Achard (French Playwright)



Quote of the Day

“I heard shouting and turned to see a fish hurling through the air into a man’s arms. A cheer followed, and the fish was expertly wrapped and given to a laughing woman. I was laughing, too. I watched for fifteen minutes. The shouts, cheers, and laughing continued—mixed with flying fish. At the Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle, Washington, it’s another day at work. We should all learn something from them.” -From ‘Fish! Philosophy’

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• Reading ‘Fish! Philosophy’

• Understanding why we are reading ‘Fish! Philosophy’.

• Interpreting the importance of this book and it’s meaning in the working world.

Quote of the Day

”If they improve productivity, get output up during core hours, we can achieve a much better balance between work and family life.” David Coates (Worrell Professor Wake Forest University)


• Understanding the importance of balancing work and family responsibilities?

• Determining how to balance work and family?

Quote of the Day

“There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself.” ‘Fish! Philosophy’


• Choosing my attitude?

• Recognizing why I should choose my attitude?

• Identifying how I can choose my attitude?

Quote of the DayFaithBy David Whyte

I want to write about faith

About the way the moon rises

over cold snow, night after night

Faithful even as it fades from fullness

slowly becoming that last curving and impossible

sliver of light before the final darkness

But I have no faith myself

I refuse to give it the smallest entry

Let this then, my small poem,

like a new moon, slender and barely open,

be the first prayer that opens me to faith


• Getting the Courage to Change?

• Changing my attitude?

• Encouraging others to change their attitudes?

Quote of the Day

“There is the puzzle of why some men and women go to seed, while others remain vital to the very end of their days. Going to seed may be too vague an expression. Perhaps I should say that many people, somewhere along the line, stop learning and growing.” John Gardner (American Novelist)



•Helping others choose their attitudes?

•Learning to play?

Quote of the Day

“She told me and then I discovered it for myself.” Unknown



• Learning to play?

• Making another’s day?

• Being present?

Quote of the Day

“We must choose our attitude everyday and choose it well.” ‘Fish! Philosophy’


• Discovering why I should:– Change my attitude?– Learn to play?– Make someone’s day?– Be present?

Quote of the Day

“The past is history

The future is a mystery

Today is a gift

That is why we call it the present.”

Unknown


• Gaining ideas on how I can:– Change my attitude?– Learn how to play?– Make another’s day?– Be present?

Quote of the DayMeaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a

riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice soemthing. The ingredients are there. Youa re the only one who can put them together into that pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

John Gardner


• Implementing the Fish! Philosophy?

Quote of the Day

“When you are doing what you are doing, who are you being? Are you being impatient and board, or are you being world famous? You are going to act differently if you are being world famous.” ‘Fish! Philosophy’


• Implementing the Fish! Philosophy into my life?• Working with others?• Teaching my peers about:

– Choosing Your Attitude?

– Playing?

– Making Another’s Day?

– Being Present?

Quote of the Day

“Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.” Robert Collier (American Motivational Author)

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• Implementing the Fish! Philosophy into my life?

• Working with others?• Teaching my peers about:

– Choosing Your Attitude?– Playing?– Making Another’s Day?– Being Present?

Quote of the Day

“At the end of the day you're talking about going to someone who needs it badly and deserves it badly and building them a home that makes life a little easier for them.” Tom Forman (Producer and Film Maker)


• Implementing the Fish! Philosophy into my life?

• Working with others?• Teaching my peers about:


Quote of the Day

“I don't know what it is. I think we have to really focus a lot more and everyone has to pay attention to detail and really kind of buckle down and make sure we do everything.” Ann Strother (Basketball Player and Coach)


• What Should I Do About…• Implementing the Fish! Philosophy into my life?• Working with others?• Teaching my peers about:


Quote of the Day

“The best way to get a summer job is to start now, if you haven't started already.” John Challanger (CEO of an Outplacement Consultancy)

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• Learning about summer employment opportunities?

• Recognizing what summer jobs may be available to me?

• Understanding how to obtain summer employment?

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Quote of the Day

• “Any large fall in labor force participation at this point suggests that the labor market is not growing out of recession, but rather that discouraged job seekers are giving up, or not beginning, their job search.” Jared Bernstein (Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to Vice President Biden)


• Learning how to conduct a job search?

• Looking for a job?

• Identifying resources to aid me in my job searches?

• Utilizing resources to find a job?

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Quote of the Day

“We ask all of our job seekers in the outplacement program to only look at the web after 6:30 at night or before maybe 6:00 in the morning. It is a soaker up of time and in a job search, you've got to get out and see people. You can't sit behind a desk and tinker with your resume.” (CEO of an Outplacement Consultancy)


• Filling out job applications?

• Finding job applications?

• Understanding the information needed for a job application?

Quote of the Day

“It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.” Carol Bellamy (Former Director of the Peace Corp. and UNICEF)


• Understanding Labor Laws?

• Applying for a work permit?

Quote of the Day

“Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.” Bill Bennett (Businessman)


• Writing a resume?

• Learning how to write a resume?

• Understanding what a resume is all about?

• Knowing the components of a resume?

Quote of the Day

“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” Martin Luther King Jr.


• Writing a cover letter?

• Understanding how to write a cover letter?

• Recognizing why I should write a cover letter?

Quote of the Day

“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” Zig Ziglar (Author)







• Researching occupations?

• Identifying which occupations may be for me?

• Understanding the requirements needed to obtain those occupations?

Quote of the Day

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius (Philosopher)


• Writing a cover letter?

• Understanding how to write a cover letter?

• Recognizing why I should write a cover letter?

Quote of the Day

“Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.” William Cowper (English Poet)


• Learning how to conduct a job search?

• Looking for a job?

• Identifying resources to aid me in my job searches?

• Utilizing resources to find a job?

Quote of the Day

“It looks as though the consumer isn't too worried about losing his job or spending his money.” Peter Cardillo (Chief Market Economist)


• Learning how to retain a job?

• Gaining the skills necessary to be a dilligent employee?

• Recognizing my weaknesses so that they can be improved?

Quote of the Day

"Kids that continually take a challenging course of study throughout their senior year (of high school) come back from college having been very successful. But kids who take a limited schedule frequently have a hard time being successful their freshman year.” Brad Diller (Comic Writer)


• Discovering what courses I need to take in high school?

• Understanding the different courses available to me?

• Choosing the appropriate classes to help me reach my educational and career goals?

Quote of the Day

“One of the guiding principles I learned from my parents led through my early schooling and continues to do so today - that's the value of hard work. I didn't wait for opportunities to fall in my lap; instead, I sought out opportunities and made opportunities for myself where they might not have existed before. Throughout high school I challenged myself to take advanced level courses and to remain active through various extracurricular activities [including] Junior Achievement, academic challenge, Spanish club and the Asian American club.” Chirag Patel


• Understanding the different courses available to me?

• Chosing the appropriate classes to help me reach my education and career goals?

• Mapping the courses I need to take for the remainder of my high school career?

• Identifying the courses I will need to take in college?

Quote of the Day

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.” Bobby Scott (Politician)


• Going to college?

• Choosing which college to go to?

• Visiting colleges?

Quote of the Day

“Visiting a college campus will help students and families get a true feel for the school. And spring break is a perfect time for these visits to occur.” Martha Holler (Author)





Quote of the Day

“It's like being in college and being undecided about your major. As soon as you choose your major, you focus in on it.” Wyclef Jean (Musician and Politician)


• Determining what I should major in in college?

• Discovering the program of study for the major that I choose?

• Investigating different programs of study?

• Recognizing if the college makes a difference as to what major I choose?

Quote of the Day

“We've made it a point whenever we go on vacation, whenever we take a trip, that we visit whatever university or college is in the area.” Silvia Hasak (Author)





Quote of the Day

“If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.” Mason Cooley (Writer)






Quote of the Day

“I'd update my resume so you're ready for any outcome.” Bob Weinstein (Producer)






Quote of the Day

“Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.” Michael Parkinson (Journalist)


• Learning how to interview?

• Dressing for interviews?

• Acting at an interview?

• Preparing for an interview?

• Interviewing?

Quote of the Day

“Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.” Tom Cole (Politician)


• Practicing how to interview?

• Improving my interview skills?

Quote of the Day

“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.” G.B. Stern (English Author)


• Understanding why I should send a letter of appreciation?

• Writing a letter of appreciation?

• Sending a letter of appreciation?

Quote of the Day

“America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.” Senator John Kerry


• Recognizing career trends?

• Identifying what jobs will be most available to me?

Quote of the Day

“Job growth is expected to continue for the healthcare sector in 2006, driving an extraordinary labor demand. As a result, the search for qualified workers is becoming increasingly competitive with the shortage of registered nurses, physical and respiratory therapists, radiology technicians and other positions.” Rosemary Haefner (Vice President of Human Resources for CareerBuilding.com)




Quote of the Day

““With the Baby Boomer generation getting up in age, there's going to be a real lack of skilled workers here in the future and everybody is recognizing that. A lot of these youngsters want to go into technology and computer fields and that's all well and good, but it leaves a gap of skilled laborers and there are good jobs to be had out there.” Paul Harris (Rotary International Founder)




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Welcome to Career Search! Mrs. Sweigart. Career Search Syllabus Mission of Course: Students will learn skills necessary for enhancing their education,