Volunteers Needed to present at Career Fair

Are you interested in presenting at a Career Fair?  Clarkston High School wants you to share your job experience with their students!  See information below for details.  If interested, contact SWE VP of Outreach (Anne Dancy) at anne.dancy@fcagroup.com.

WILL YOU SHARE YOUR CAREER EXPERIENCES WITH CHS STUDENTS?

Everybody has a story about how they ended up in their current profession. We want Clarkston High School students to hear yours! Are you in the position you always dreamed of? Or did your career journey lead you in a totally different direction? 

WHAT

Please accept this invitation from the CHS PTSA to participate in Career Day, a program planned specifically for 11th-grade students. The program is intended to help juniors explore career options as they prepare for senior class scheduling and college entry. Our goal is for the students to interact personally with professionals in a wide variety of careers to learn about what it takes to prepare for and be successful in those professions.  

WHEN 

Career Day is scheduled over two days to give more than 600 juniors an opportunity to interact with different professionals within specific career pathways. It's being offered on these dates and times:

•   Tuesday, January 12, 2016        _____7:10 a.m. to 10:35 a.m.               _____10:40 a.m. to 2:25 p.m. 

•   Tuesday, February 23, 2016        _____7:10 a.m. to 10:35 a.m.               _____10:40 a.m. to 2:25 p.m. 

Speakers may participate at one scheduled time, all day or both days. Light refreshments and lunch are provided both days. 

FORMAT

Three speakers are scheduled from specific career pathways to speak to three separate groups of students within an allotted time slot. (Students change rooms every hour.) Each speaker is asked to prepare an 8-10 minute presentation describing:

1.       what it takes to perform your chosen career,

2.    the education (college degree/vocation/certification) you earned to enter your field and 

3.       how the choices you made in high school (or wish you had made) affected your future. What would you do differently?

A Q&A session will follow in which speakers might also be prepared for questions about:

•   Other careers you could pursue with your degree/vocation/certification

•   Salary range for your profession

•   How much high school REALLY prepared you for the real world

•   The amount of time your job allows for your family

•   What you like most/least about your job

•   Recommendations for entering your field

WHY

When students have these kinds of candid conversations with professionals like you, it helps them make meaningful connections between what they’re learning in school and the tools they’ll need to be successful in the workforce. Visual aids help them make those connections, too. Any hands-on activity or product that might give students a better view into your “world of work" is highly encouraged!