Creating a Career Plan

Creating a Career Plan

Lesson 3.2

In this course, you learned a lot about your:

• interests;

• skills;

• careers that align with your interests and skills; and

• a career pathway that supports a career you are most interested in.

You ended the previous lesson by choosing a career pathway that aligned with your goals. It is possible that you picked two if you were undecided. Review the career pathways in the image to the right

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Which career pathway best aligns with your career goals? Choose two if you were undecided.

• Arts and Communication

• Buisness, Finance and IT

• Science and Health

• Engineering and Idustrial Technology

• Human Services

As a tenth grader, you can choose a career pathway to help prepare you for your career goals.

If you have not already done so and are interested in a specific career pathway, reach out to your school counselor! They can help you make a schedule that coordinates with your career goals.

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A career plan includes your chosen career pathway and many things that support your career pathway, such as:

• your interests and skills;

• careers you hope to work toward;

• clubs and field trip opportunities; and

• elective and humanities courses.

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Step 1: Fill in Your Pathway

At the beginning of today's lesson, you reviewed CCA's five career pathways. Based on your interests and skills, you chose a career pathway that best fits you. Suppose you are still deciding on one pathway that matches your interests and skills. In this case, you are encouraged to select two career pathways. Then, complete the worksheet using interests, skills, careers, clubs, field trips, and courses that fit either pathway.

Write or type your chosen career pathway in the box at the top of the worksheet.

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Remember that interests are a feeling of wanting to learn more about something or to be involved in something. You can have many interests. It is important that you chose your pathway in the last question because you have interests that align with it!

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Step 2: Determine Pathway Interests

Arts and Communication

Business Finance and IT

Engineering and Industrial Technology

Human Services

Science and Health

Find the pathway that you chose in the gallery above. Review the list of interests and choose three that best match your own.

Write or type your three interests in the career plan worksheet.

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Find the pathway that you chose in the hotspot above. Review the list of skills and choose at least one skill that best matches your own.

Write or type in the career plan worksheet at least one skill that you have.

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Open your chosen career pathway's collapsible box above. Review careers that are within that pathway.

Which of the careers could you see yourself doing? Write or type in the career plan worksheet. Remember, you can write your best-fit career from the self-assessments you took, so long as it is part of your career pathway.

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Follow the directions in the slides above to discover clubs at CCA. While reviewing the clubs, consider the interests and skills that you identified earlier. Be sure to choose clubs that align with them.

Which clubs interest you the most that support your career pathway? Write or type the clubs on the career plan worksheet.

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A field trip is a visit to a place (such as a museum or zoo) that is made by students to learn about something. CCA offers over 500 field trips to students each school year both virtually and in person!

Field trips offer you the opportunity to engage in things that interest you with other students who enjoy the same things.

Step 6: Create a High School Field Trips List

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Follow the directions in the timeline above to discover field trips offered at CCA. After reviewing the field trips, create a list of three that you would be interested in doing. Be sure that they align with your long-term career goals!

Write or type the field trips on the career plan worksheet.

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While in high school, you must take a certain number of credits in English, Math, Social Studies, and Science. You will have some flexibility in course choice, but not a lot. You can, however, choose electives that will support your interests. In fact, you need to take electives to complete the pathway that you chose.

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Step 7: Decide on High School Electives

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Follow the directions above to discover elective courses that are available under your chosen career pathway. After reviewing the courses, create a list of at least three that you would be interested in taking. Be sure that they align with your long-term career goals!

Write or type the courses on the career plan worksheet.

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