Career Exploration – Skills Matching & Resume Builders

Unlock Your Students' Potential Using The Ultimate Career Exploration And Resume Builder Unit

Are you finding it difficult to have your students honour their value by turning their life experiences into an exciting and valuable resume to apply to college / their first job? This 45-page complete unit has no prep required for you because it will transform your students' perception of writing a resume (which can be an overwhelming task) into the experience that they discover of who they are and create a professional brand for themselves.

This is more than just a resume template. There is an entire pedagogical framework that is created for our modern high school student (Grades 10-12). This framework teaches beyond just formatting; it teaches the critical thought process of how to create a powerful resume. Thus allowing your students to articulate their abilities and accomplishments with confidence.

WHAT DOES THIS 3-PHASE PROGRAM INCLUDE?

Phase 1: Core Principles and Paradime Shift of Resume Writing - This phase focuses on the purpose behind writing resumes as it relates to what the learner can expect in regard to outcomes. This will require learners to deconstruct previous experiences, define their hard, soft, and transferable skills, and understand the psychological impact of creating a successful resume. Utilising real-world case studies, this phase helps students to develop a better understanding of concepts learned.

Phase 2: Step-by-Step Student Workbook - Students will complete ten step-by-step worksheets that will help them create a plan of action using the following worksheets:

The Comprehensive Skills Inventory (self-assessment of their skills);

Mapping Your Ikigai (finding where you fit between what you love, what the world needs, and what you can be rewarded for);

Job Description Forensics (decoding the job description to find out what the employer is really looking for);

Forging the Professional Summary (creating a strong elevator pitch);

Academic & Extracurricular Translations (how to turn project work in school and hobbies into professional accomplishments);

The STAR Method & Action Verb Activation (writing strong bullet points with evidence);

Career Non-Negotiables (establishing your values as they relate to long-term career satisfaction);

Skill Gap Analysis (creating a plan for future growth and development);

The Master Resume Architect (conducting one final and quality check of the resume).

Phase 3: Teacher Resources & Visuals - All of the resources you need to successfully execute this phase of the program are contained here!

3 Professional Visuals/Anchor Charts to be used as teacher presentation/learning tools and classroom displays (Skill Translation Chart, Resume Overall Anatomy Chart, The STAR Method Chart).

Diagnostic Rubric & Answer Key: The use of detailed rubrics showing what 'Unacceptable', 'Developing' and 'Exemplary' work looks like enables you to be much fairer to students when grading their subjective work than merely saying "yes/no".

Great for:

CTE (Career, Technical, Education) classes

Life Skills or AVID programs

Persuasive writing (English Language Arts) units

Advisory/homeroom

College/career readiness counseling

Provide confidence and resources for students to become leaders. Download this amazing unit right now!

This Curriculum offers a clear narrative about 'no experience' through effective strategies.

1. No experience to a strong story - learn to translate everyday activities such as sports, part-time jobs and babysitting into a powerful, high-impact, professional language for college admissions officers and hiring managers.

2. Step-by-step and actionable - these 10 structured worksheets take students from confused to confident and provide tangible, high-quality resumes at the end of the process.

3. Built for teachers - includes a complete answer key and diagnostic rubrics to use when grading, removing the guesswork & making this essential life skills easy to teach.

4. Teaches modern, real-world practices and principles - this curriculum is current and teaches critical modern concepts such as how to optimize resumes for Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), using the STAR method in interviews, and developing a professional digital footprint.

The target grade levels for students to use this book include:

The terminology used in the text, e.g., "semiotics", "metamorphosis", "pedagogical framework", actually defines the grade levels we should focus on when developing a curriculum for preparing for college and nursing school applications and internships.

10th grades: it is an excellent year to be introducing students to these very important concepts

11th grades: this is the best time to teach these very important skills; at this time, the student is getting ready to apply for school.

12th grades: it is absolutely critical and very beneficial to help students refine and perfect their applications and resumes as they leave school.

Additionally, this could also be a useful resource for college freshmen who need help developing their very first resume for clubs and internships while in college.

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