Career Skills Activites

Career Skills Activities

Introduction to Digital Technology

Activity Details/Skills Covered

Career Presentation Students researched a career of their choice using basic research skills. After,
Project conducting their research on their career of their choice students presented their
finding in a PowerPoint presentation.
M& M Group Activity Students will complete the group career activity to get student’s thinking about their
future plans for a career.
Personal Mission Completing the personal mission statement assignment will help provide students
Statement clarity on who they are and how they will live, which is very important with their
career choice.
Exploring Careers Students will complete the exploring careers assignment which will help identify the
steps they need to identify a career of their and what it will take to succeed in it.
South Dakota Reality Students will complete the South Dakota Reality Check using the website:
Check http://realitycheck.intocareers.org/RealityCheck_SD/. The survey helps students
understand the reality of how much money they need to earn to coverage their
lifestyle expenses.

Digital Design

Activity Details/Skills Covered

Self-Letter of Students are to write a letter of recommendation about themselves as if they were
Recommendation someone else. This assignment will help students think about the personal traits they
possess.
Target Your Interest This survey will can assist students in determining what type of person they are and
the interest they have. After completing the form, students are given a summary of
Career Exploration their interest and some potential majors/careers will be returned.
Guide Sheet Gathering information is a critical step for students to make an effective career
decision. Students will use the guide sheet to outline a potential career of their
Exploring Sources of choice.
Job Leads This assignment helps students learn where to search for jobs on and off the internet.
What Employers Students will also learn basic vocabulary words associated with finding a job.
Expect Students complete a graphic organizer on what employers expect and then create an
online poster using www.wordle or www.tagxedo

Web Design

Activity Details/Skills Covered

Career Exploration: Students conduct a quick job search online and see what kinds of jobs are available in
My Life your area of the country. They make a list of the worker characteristics (responsible,
motivated, good public speaking skills, etc.) that are being sought.

What is Work Ethic Student complete the OWEI online work ethic inventory

Interpersonal Skills Students answer questions from different scenarios dealing with interpersonal skills
Employability Skills
Students discuss and answer questions with a partner from different scenarios dealing
What Employers with other employability skills
Expect
Students complete a graphic organizer on what employers expect and then create an
online poster using www.wordle or www.tagxedo

Career Research Poster & Presentation Project

Outline & Poster: Using the information you have compiled, from the research done in
the lab and library, you will create a poster. The outline and poster will focus on the
following important aspects:

Educational requirements

o Does this career require a college or technical degree?
o How many years of school?
o What are good colleges to attend for this career?
Required Skills
o What skills does the career require?
o Do you have to have these skills in order to have this career?
o How is technology used in your career?

Job Outlook
o What is the future outlook for your career? Will there be growth in your
field? Please use statistics to support your response.

Salary
o What is the annual salary or hourly rate?
o Does it stay the same or does it increase annually?
o What is the least you could make? Most?
o Does education make a difference in salary?

Job Duties & Type of Work
o What is the job description?
o What hours/days are required to work?
o Is this work done inside or outdoors?

Job Benefits & Job Drawbacks
o What are the benefits of this career?
o Does this career support the lifestyle you desire?
o What are some things that may not be so great about the career?

Presentation: You will be presenting your poster or PowerPoint. You need to present
for a minimum of 4 minutes, speak clearly and loudly, have good posture, appear to

know the career well and be able to answer questions on the topic. You may use note
cards as guides, but DO NOT READ FROM THEM!!! See the oral presentation rubric
for complete details.

**Use the rubric when making the outline, poster and presentation, as guidelines
for the project.

Name_______________________________

Points Rubric for Career Research Outline
_____ Ideas & Content( 30 points) :
_____ The outline …

 Has a Thesis Statement
 Has completed I, II, III, IV, V in complete sentences
Organization (15 points):
Sentence Outline Format
 Uses the correct outline format

 Roman numerals, letters, and numbers

Correct, Accurate Copy (10 points):

 Spelling, grammar, & punctuation

_____  Typed, 12 font, Times New Roman, MLA Heading and page
_____
requirements
_____
Works Cited (15 points)
_____
Rubric for Career Research Project Poster

Appearance & Creativity (20 points):

 neatness  use of color  use of whole board

 pictures  charts  data or objects

Content (30 points):

 Educational  Required Skills  Salary

requirements

 Job Duties &  Job Benefits &
Type of Work Job Drawbacks

Oral Presentation (30 points) *see rubric

TOTAL FOR PROJECT (150 points)
Comments:

150

Rubric for Career Research Project Poster

Appearance & Creativity (20 points):

 neatness  use of color  use of whole board

_____  pictures  charts  data or objects
_____
Content (30 points):  Required Skills  Salary
 Educational
requirements

 Job Duties &  Job Benefits &
Type of Work Job Drawbacks

Criteria 0 123

Nonverbal Does not attempt to Only focuses Occasionally looks at Constantly looks at
Skills look at audience at all, attention to one someone or some someone or some
reads notes the entire particular part of the groups during groups at all times
Eye Contact time class, does not scan presentation
audience

Facial Has either a deadpan Occasionally displays Occasionally Gives audience clues
Expressions expression of shows a both a deadpan and demonstrates either a to what the content of
conflicting expression conflicting expression deadpan OR speech is about;
during entire during presentation conflicting expression Appropriate
presentation during presentation expression, never
notice a deadpan or
conflicting expression

Gestures No gestures are notices Hand gestures are Uses too many Natural hand gestures
awkward unnatural hand are demonstrated
Posture gestures
Vocal Skills Sits during Stands up straight
presentation or Occasionally slums with both feet on the
slumps during presentation ground.

Enthusiasm Shows absolutely no Shows some Occasionally shows Demonstrates a
interest in topic negativity toward positive feelings strong positive
presented topic presented about topic feeling about topic
during entire
Vocalized 10 or more are noticed 6-9 are noticed 1-5 are noticed presentation
Pauses (uh, well
uh, um) No vocalized pauses
noticed
Content

Topic Audience has no idea Gives 1-2 details Gives more details to Clearly explains what
Announced what the report is on about the topic the audience about the report is covering
what report is over,
Time frame Presentation is more Presentation is 2 but still not all Presentation falls
than 2 minutes less minutes less than within required time
than required time required time Presentation is more frame
than maximum time
Completeness of One or more points left Majority of points or 1 minute short Thoroughly explains
all points
Content out glossed over Majority of points
covered in depth,
some points glossed
over

Professionalism Mumbles, audience has Thoughts don't flow, Thoughts articulated Presentation is
of Presentation clearly, though does organized and the
difficulty hearing, not clear, does not not engage audience interest level of the
audience is
confusing engage audience maintained

Student Work Samples



M & M Group Activity

Activity: "To Get You Thinking." To help get students thinking more about their future plans
for a career and where they are in the money management experience, a handful of M&M
candies can help.

Have a large bowl of the candies. Invite each student to take some but to save them until
further instructions. (With larger groups, you might have them go ahead and eat all but three
of the M&M’s.)

Each M&M color represents a category:
Green ……………….personal goals
Dark Brown………..career or careers you are interested in
Yellow………………..hobbies and interests
Orange ……………..money management experience
Red……………………a fact about money
Blue…………………..have students select a category

Ask participants to share one fact about themselves for each M&M, according to the color chart.
They are free to eat an M&M each time they share a fact with their group. This activity can be
customized by changing the categories to meet specific needs.

Ask students if they have ever thought about how much they “earn” by coming to class? How
much do you earn per class hour during their high school career.

Discuss with students that once they seriously begin to think about and write meaningful
goals, they need to consider how they are going to make those goals (and dreams) become a
reality. Help students arrive at the conclusion that with most of us, this is accomplished by
earning and income from our chosen jobs and careers.

There are three major areas you need to explore.
1) Career Factors - with education, experience, and skills and interests being
some of the main factors. (Overhead "Influence On Career Selection" and
"How Education Pays")
2) Career Options - exploring "Hot Occupations" for today and the future, along with
consideration given to working for someone else versus being in business for yourself
(Entrepreneur).
3) Career Outcomes - examining what affects the paycheck you receive for your work
and efforts, along with understanding the importance of possible employee benefits
and the impact these benefits can have on our life.











What Employers Expect Wordle Assignment

Directions:

1. Go to the following website: www.wordle.net or www.tagxedo.com
2. Select the "create" option
3. Insert 8-10 words that best describe the skills employers look for in their

employees.
4. Print your final "wordle" in color
5. Submit your wordle to your assigned class period box.

Jaylin Hicks
Mr.Dobbins
2nd Period