Forest Park High School

Career Development
Introduction to Business Technology
Month

August

September

October

November

Activity

Inventory Me

GA College 411
Interest Profiler
and
Career
Exploration

Career
Awareness and
Exploration

Career
Informational
Interview

Careers
Research
December

Details/Skills Covered

This activity is for the students to discuss

possible career paths and goals based on
their values. Students will examine goals as
they relate to lifestyles. Create a report of
the average ranking of each item on the
Personal Inventory worksheet. Compare
personal results with group averages
The Career Planning section Learn
About Yourself students will be able
to choose from the following career
assessments.
The Interest Profiler will provide you
with a list of 180 workrelated
activities and students choose
whether they like or dislike the
activity, or if youre unsure. The
Interest Profiler will rank your interest
level in the following six categories:
Realistic, Investigative, Artistic,
Social, Enterprising or Conventional.
Students are then encouraged to
explore the top career clusters and
top careers that align with your
interests
List at least 5 goals related to school,
career and personal) and include a
description of how you plan to
accomplish each one.
Students will select someone working
in an interesting occupation to
interview in person or on the phone.
Spend at least 20 minutes talking
with the individual and gathering
information about his or her career
and the occupation. Suggested
questions are listed below. You can
add questions related to your
interests and concerns.
Students research careers using
information found in MnCareers and
other resources. They record their
information on the career research
worksheet.

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Career Development

Accounting I

Month

Activity

August

Careers Using
Accounting

September

A Day In the Life Of

Career Awareness
and Exploration

Details/Skills Covered

Research and describe the duties

and responsibilities for 5 of the
careers listed below and prepare a
power point presentation
summarizing the information to
share with the class.
Each student will be assigned an
accounting career to research.
Using at least three cited resources,
determine: 1-The work activities
involved in that profession 2- The
aptitudes needed for the profession
3- The work setting 4- Tools used 5
- Education needed 6Advancement opportunities.
Prepared a one page essay of their
research.
Write a one page paper on a
business career.

October

November

Skills Scavenger
Hunt

Career Planning

Do you know that workers use

the same skills on their jobs as
students do in school?
Directions: Select someone to
interview who has been
working in the same job for a
few years. Ask him, or her, the
following questions concerning
skills they use on the job:
Students will complete a
worksheet identifying he

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Career Development
Month December

Activities
Activity

August

Career Research

career
activities that
Students research a career in the
they
have
pathway. They used the internet,
library,
completed
and
summarize
job shadowing, etc. to find information
what
learned
in the
on the career.
Thethey
information
was
activity.
Details/Skills Covered

presented to the class along with an oral

presentation.

Daydreaming
September

In this activity students will explore a

fantasy of what their futures may look
like. Students will describe what they
think their lives will be like jobs they
will have, where they will live, etc.
List 5 personal goals and describe
how you will complete each.

October

Career
Awareness and
Exploration

November

Career
Awareness and
Exploration

List five personal strengths and

one personal weakness. Write a
100 Word summary on what you
can do to overcome the weakness.

Nontraditional
Careers

Students complete worksheet that

guides them through the
exploration of nontraditional
careers using the ISEEK website.

December
Accounting II