Career Navigator is a simple exercise. It is designed to let student know more about themselves such as their likes and dislikes, and creates a list of occupations that match their preferences. It doesn’t tell them what they should be. Instead, Career Navigator locates occupations that match the factors they regard as important.

Students will plan several career goals, integrate technology into their speech, and research a career of interest.

This worksheet will have students research 6 ideal careers using the Internet and create a Powerpoint presentation to share with the class.

In this video, students will learn the hospitality career area, differences between tech (2 year) and liberal arts (4 year) preparation.

This resource provides an overview of different types of careers for music lovers. The first section profiles several occupations that involve music. The second section describes how you can prepare for a music-related career. The third section details some of the highs and lows of working in music. Employment, wages, and outlook are also reviewed.

This resource challenges students to investigate a variety of healthcare careers related to therapeutic services, diagnostic services, health informatics, support services, and biomedical research and development pathways. Students will use a variety of research techniques to explore job descriptions, education, costs, salary, etc. This information will assist students in creating a career plan.

This video shows how some successful people got their start and how they keep achieving their dreams.

This is an 80 page booklet from the College Application Camp we had at Olympic High School in 2016.  It inlcudes lots of college admissions information.

Students will learn about colleges and universities in North Carolina that can launch a career in the sciences.

In the spring, 8th grade students are already choosing a track for high school. This is a big decision and it's easier to make when you have created goals for your future. Secondary education is important whether you choose to attend a community college, technical institute, or 4-year university. This unit allows students to explore their future career and evaluate which type of secondary education is the best fit for them. The products leading up the the college fair (interviews, essay, quizzes, etc.) help them make informed decisions.

This interactive crossword puzzle challenges students to recognize and/or identify vocabulary words associated with the workplace.

NOTE: This project was designed for an AVID course. The platform did not allow that selection, which is why it is tied to Career Development. Open the resource to see the specific AVID standards taught and assessed through the unit.

Since students were little they have been asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Too often the answers are limited to the careers of parents or the professionals with whom the student has had some kind of contact: in essence, the standard response of doctor, lawyer, police officer.

This project was designed to assist students in identifying skill sets and interests and then understanding their relationships to careers and career clusters.

Using technology, students take interest surveys and explore both broad career clusters and specific careers. From their research they create career infographics for presentation and display within the school.

This resource provides an illustration of an employability framework that is interactive. The framework is comprised of nine key skills, organized in three broad categories: applied knowledge, effective relationships, and workplace skills. Students can click on pieces of the framework to learn more about the skills required for employment.

This resource provides information about the importance of developing effective relationships in the workplace. Interpersonal skills and personal qualities are reviewed.

This resource provides a source matrix that compares the employability skills identified by a sample of national and state standards and assessments used to develop the Employability Framework.

This resource offers a employability skills resource toolkit that reviews why these skills matter and teaching resources that can be adapted for younger students. Some of the modules include integrity and professionalism, communications, entrepreneurship, and adaptability and lifelong learning.

Students will be able to shadow an adult for some or all of a work day to observe not only job characteristics and responsibilities, but also what each job requires on a day-to-day basis.

Students will research and identify a variety of sources to obtain information about occupations.