JA Careers with a Purpose introduces students to the importance of seeking careers that help them realize their life potential and noble purpose. The program demonstrates the importance of positive values, life maxims, and ethical decision-making within the context of career and life decisions. Seven required, volunteer-led sessions.
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Session One: A Sense of Purpose
Students explore the various roles they will play in their lives and how their own skills, interests, and values will help define those roles.
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- explain the concept of life roles.
- express their skills, interests, and values.
- select maxims that help define their noble purpose.
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Session Two: What Do You Value
Students discuss values and the ways in which they prefer to work. They explore scenarios in which their values are tested and work decisions are made, and then examine how they arrive at their decisions.
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Session Three: What’s in a Name? Jobs vs. Careers
Students explore the differences between a job and a career and learn how they can apply their skills, interests, and values to a career with a noble purpose.
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- explain the differences between a job and a career with a noble purpose.
- understand that their skills, interests, and values align with multiple career options.
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Session Four: The World of Work
Students explore the world of work and see how their skills, interests, and values align with various career clusters, pathways, and careers.
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identify a way to structure the world of work.
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analyze their skills, interests, and values, and explore career clusters, pathways, and careers.
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Session Five: Your Decisions
Students make decisions as if they were employed in a real-world, high- growth, high-demand industry.
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Session Six: Your Code of Conduct
Students discuss ethics in the workplace and understand how personal ethics and business ethics intersect.
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Session Seven: Take Action
Students use a decision-making process to consider post-high school career options.
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