1. Career Planning: How to Help Your Child Presented by Rhonda Gibbs & Grace Malek ONEONTA CITY SCHOOLS A Presentation for Parents

2. What is the Parents’ Role? Parents are the number one influence on the career their child pursues. Download the Kuder Parents Guide: http://www.kuder.com/download s/Parent-Guide-Navigator.pdf. http://www.kuder.com/download s/Parent-Guide-Navigator.pdf

3. How do we know this? According to the National Association of Secondary Principals December 2004 Bulletin, one of the top reasons students chose not to pursue additional education after high school was because of lack of encouragement from parents. According to a study conducted by the University of Chicago, students are unaware of the career planning steps they need to take. Parents and schools are an important link to connect students education with their career goals.

4. Step-by-Step Planning Process

5. Step 1 Realize career choices must be made.  Teach decision making.  Commend your child for good work or behavior.  All kinds of work are needed and are honorable.  Discuss how careers are organized.

6. Step 2 Learn what you like to do and what you can do well.  Expose your child to a wide variety of activities.  When helping with homework, discuss how these may be used in a job.  Utilize Kuder ® Navigator: ─Encourage your child to complete the Kuder ® Career Search with Person Match (interest assessment) and Kuder ® Skills Assessment.

7. Kuder Career Search with Person Match

8. Kuder Skills Assessment 16 Career Clusters

9. Step 3 Identify occupations to consider seriously.  Review your child’s interest and skills assessments results.  Make sure your child is exploring and saving occupations of interest.

10.  Go to http://al.kuder.com/http://al.kuder.com/  Get Started by clicking on “New Users”  Click on the “Parent of a student under the age of 18” and “Continue”  Fill out your personal information to establish an account, and click to register.

11. Parent Account Home Page

12. Accessing Your Child’s Portfolio

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22. Sample Information

23. Click on “Learn How Careers Are Presented to Students”

24. How Can You Help?

25. Click on “Career Planning Timeline”. You will have a list of what YOU can do as a parent of 6 – 12 th grader(s). When you click on each grade level it instructs you to more information.

26. Career Planning Timeline

27. Step 4 Get detailed information about some occupations.  Review saved occupations together.  Watch an occupational video.

28. Step 5 Choose a short list of occupations.  Encourage your child to interview, job shadow, or participate in an internship for occupations that they are interested in.  Explore specific education, licensure, and certification requirements for these occupations.

29. Step 6 Plan for future education.  Review suggested high school plans of study for career clusters.  Discuss all the options after high school and how to get there.

30. Green Tab: “Plan for Education”

31. Creating an Educational Plan

32. Career Planning Timeline

33. Sample Plans by Top Interests

34. Sample Plan of Study: Health Science

35. Sample Plan of Study: Agriculture

36. Sample Plan of Study: Finance

37. Step 7 Get a Job.  Help your child understand what employers expect of an employee.  Discuss preparing for a job. Using Kuder Navigator your child can review interviewing skills, build a résumé, and write a cover letter. You can view and provide feedback on their résumé by accessing their portfolio from your parent account.

38. When you login with your username and password to access your account: Click on the tab “Student Portfolio” and enter the requested information that your child used to create their own account. Then you have access to your child’s Kuder Career Planning.

39. Quote Worthy One third of the hours of your waking time is spent at work, why not find an occupation you enjoy. From Take Hold of Your Future, by Dr. JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey Help your child find a career that they will enjoy. Using Kuder Navigator, they can! “ ”

40. Check out Yahoo Finance  http://finance.yahoo.com/ http://finance.yahoo.com/  This website posts top ten jobs in demand, and update the information frequently US Department of Labor  http://bls.gov/ http://bls.gov/ Occupational Outlook Handbook  http://bls.gov/oco/ http://bls.gov/oco/

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