College and Career Readiness

If you decide you want to be a journalist (for example), which one of the following would help develop your career base?

• You should volunteer at a local dog shelter.

• You should take courses in Engineering.

• Volunteer at the local paper.

How can networking occur in your career path?

• You can make connections with people while volunteering or through job experience.

• If you are able to feed hardwired information into your brain you will maximize thought.

• Through a complex network of neurons.

How can volunteering and getting a generic job in your career field help you?

• You should not get a volunteer job or even a generic job. You should be a clean slate.

• Volunteering wastes valuable time.

• These opportunities are good networking opportunities

As you start investigating your career how should you act?

• You should act erratically because everyone knows this is a stressful time in your life.

• You should take slow and steady steps and only make the decision 5 years after graduation.

• You should be self-aware, and make proactive choices toward your goal

How do you develop your specific career idea once you've realized your goal?

• You take steps to work towards daily self-awareness.

• You must meditate often and concentrate on an image of a tree.

• Specific career goals are useless at a young age.

When you internalize information about the future you are doing what?

• You are learning about anatomy.

• You are dreaming about your future, developing mental images, and art collages.

• Storing facts and experiences that will help you thrive in your future.

Why is it important to build your career knowledge?

• You should be knowledgeable about all careers to win trivia contests.

• Career knowledge doesn't help as much as learning about a specific college.

• Volunteer or career experiences can be put on your resume.

What is the key to your career search?

• Finding the perfect career.

• You’ve got to have patience with your search and yourself.

• Tireless research, unrelenting scrutiny, and pure determination.

You should investigate which of the following once you’ve found a possible career path?

• Whether your job title will impress people.

• How many of your friends like that job.

• Volunteer activities in businesses associated with that job or career.

How can you build on your career base?

• You can get after-school jobs, join clubs, or volunteer in places associated with that career.

• You can find a solid element, such as concrete, to start building the base.

• You can write the title of the career into a pretty poster that is displayed on your wall.