
Career Development Curriculum
(Virtual)
Choose Your Career Path
Example Career Paths
Animal Care
Hospitality
Health Care
Retail
Customized Path
Clerical
Recreation
Retail
The retail industry features small businesses and chain stores that sell products directly to individual consumers. These businesses can be categorized based on their signature products into "hard" and "soft" retailers. Industry experts also classify retailers as department stores, discount stores, and niche businesses.
Recipe for Success
The Career Plan outlines important stages of your career development necessary to achieve your career goals. It will serve as a guide in keeping track of what you need to do to transform your career dreams into a reality.
Education
Understand what I have achieved and what I must achieve to make career attainment a reality.
Complete the education outline to keep me on track
Professional Development
Learn the key skills involved with that career
Develop a resume and cover letter
Dive into best practices for interviews
Career Exploration
Select 3 career choices from the ONET Profiler Exercise
Do some research about the specifics of that career
Look into the education needed in that career path
Self Assessment
List current education and professional qualties
Complete an ONET Profiler Exercise
Explore Job Zones within your career area
Outline Career Goal
Define a career goal
Set a goal for the current year and one year plus
Set a work schedule and deadlines to meet each goal
Marketing Tools
Learn best practices for successful job searches
Learn how to build your own network of professionals
Learn about your specific education pathway
Earn Your Certificate
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Student Takeaways (2021 & 2022)
Megan

Education Level
College: Associate Degree
Career Track
Hospitality
My biggest take away was how to make a cover letter and resume I also learned a lot about time management and active listening I most appreciated learning how to make a cover letter and I would recommend this trading program to others.
Willie

Education Level
Highschool diploma/GED
Career Track
Hospitality
Even though I’ve had a busy summer and made it to work when I was available, my biggest takeaways are to make sure I’m organized and ready for the job. Yes I would recommend this 6 week program to somebody else in fact I already did
Fatimah

Education Level
Still in high school
Career Track
Hospitality
My biggest takeaway from the 6 week training program was learning how to job search and finding out what I am most interested in also learning how to write a cover letter, I learned about time management and decision making which both helped me out a lot. What I appreciated most was how much knowledge we were able to build based on the self guided assignments and still getting paid for It. I would definitely recommend this 6 week training to someone else.
Tara

Education Level
Still in high school
Career Track
Animal Care
My biggest takeaway was learning how to build yourself in the perspective of your employer, from presenting a solid resume to accompanying said resume with a cover letter, following up on all your applications and attending interviews and engaging your potential employer. I appreciated how Hector always made sure to check if we understood everything and would get back to us regarding all our questions.

