Guidance & Careers

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.

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

Students will explore the Let’s Talk Science careers resources and learn about career options that require, or benefit from, a background in STEM.

Students are introduced to career development as a lifelong process as they visualize who, what and where they want to be when they graduate.

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

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.

Canadian astronauts Jeremy Hansen and David Saint-Jacques explain how learning to fly an aircraft prepared them for the challenges of living in space.

5 images some work that a scientist who studies the Earth's soil might do such as classifying types of soil and measuring the slope of soil

6 images of different types of work that someone involved in construction might do

5 images of some work that a dietitian might do such as educating patients about how food affects their health

5 images of some different engineers and their work places such as engineers at a hydroelectric plant, in a forest and at NASA

5 images of some work that farmers do such as feeding cows, planting fields and harvesting grain

5 images of some work that horticulturalists might do such as cultivating and caring for plants in various environments