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Job Preparation

What’s your Plan B?

What’s your Plan B?

Lessons

Students will recognize the importance of flexibility and adaptability when it comes to career choices.
Students will recognize that previous education is an asset that provides for great flexibility and adaptability.

Your Personality and the Workplace

Your Personality and the Workplace

Lessons

Students recognize the importance of the connection between life choices and their personal characteristics. Students will make connections between who they are now, the people they wish to become (their future selves), and their connections with work.

What skills do I need for the workplace?

What Skills do I Need for the Workplace?

Lessons

Students will deepen their understanding of the concept of employability skills. Students will develop an awareness of opportunities available for those who have well-developed employability skills.

The Skills Employers Look For

The Skills Employers Look For

Lessons

Students will identify the skills that employers look for in potential employees.
Students will recognize that they have skills and abilities that align with employer needs.
Students will make personal connection between their interests and current skills with the person in the career profile.

Introducing Career Options

Introducing Career Options

Lessons

Students will be introduced to career development and begin thinking about different career options.

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R. Troy Pollett

Director – Security Audit & Risk Management

R. Troy Pollett is the Director of Security Audit & Risk Management for Verafin.
Learning from the Experiences of Others

Learning from the Experience of Others

Lessons

Students will recognize the benefit of seeking advice from those experienced in specific career areas that interest them.

What are your Employability Skills?

What are Your Employability Skills?

Lessons

Students will identify employability skills in which they are strong and those that need work, create an Employability Skills Profile and develop plans to improve their employability skills.