Grade 15 - Business Management & Administration
Career Management (Credit: 0.50)Career management is a semester-length high school elective course that assists students in their preparation for career selection. The course is designed to improve workforce skills needed in all careers including:
communication
leadership
teamwork
decision making
problem solving
goal setting
time management
Students will complete activities that help identify personal interests, aptitudes, and learning styles. Students will use results of self-assessments to determining careers that may prove personally satisfying. prepare a plan
to help them secure employment in this field. Students will learn practical
job-seeking skills including application and interviewing skills. During the
course, students will explore how personal/social development, educational
achievement, lifelong learning, and career management can lead to career
satisfaction and success.
Course Objectives:
- Develop greater understanding a diverse and evolving career landscape.
- Explore personal strengths, challenges, skills, self-concept, and goals.
- Understand how personal traits, academic achievement, and strategic
planning affect career success.
- Create and manage a career plan that supports career goals.
- Use accurate, current, and unbiased career information during career
planning and management.
- Master academic, occupational, and general employability skills in order to
obtain, create, maintain,
and/or advance your employment.
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