Week of January 30th Annotated Bibliography
Torpey, E. (2015, January). Career planning for high schoolers:
Career Outlook. Retrieved January 28, 2017, from
https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2015/article/career-planning-
for-high- schoolers.htm
Just as this article states, "Without experience, it’s hard for students to appreciate what type of career they’d like to have because it’s all hypothetical," which is why as a high school student, you should take the advantage of having pathway courses available to you and take them to prepare you for the future. Focusing on a career earlier can help you to decide whether or not is something you are serious about as a future career. It can give you the option of deciding before you go into college that maybe it is not what you thought it would be and you'd rather do something very different. Interning is another way to get ahead of the game. Interning within your community and within your career field can help you to get more hands on experience. You can learn so much from a mentor who is willing to teach you all about the insight of what happens on an everyday basis in the life of that career. Your schools should also offer you different pathway based clubs such as Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) or Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). These groups can help to prepare you for any situations you could face in these jobs later on and give you more experience with the type of people you will be working with.
A lot of people job shadow and get so much out of it, which is why starting early with experience within your future career field is important. High school students have now started getting this early experience through jobs, internships, and other activities such as clubs. Some of these clubs are DECA, FBLA, FCCLA, or SkillsUSA, which all have the same goal to promote career readiness. There are also classes that are given to students as options, like Food and nutrition, Education, Cosmetology, etc. These classes prepare you or sometimes even give you the first class credit for college. They also give you opportunities to talk to workers already in those careers about as to whether or not they enjoy it or not.
This article is taken from a credible site. It comes from a government source, which makes it valid. Elka Torpey, the author of this article, is a economist for Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is a Federal Agency that is responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. It collects and analyzes information about the economy to help make private and public decision making.
This article fits into my research, because it gives me more information about pathways and how focusing on them can help you in the future. It supports my research by giving examples about a real life student and councilor and their advice for students going through high school. I can use this information and statistics to help back me up in my research and ideas.
Torpey, E. (2015, January). Career planning for high schoolers:
Career Outlook. Retrieved January 28, 2017, from
https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2015/article/career-planning-
for-high- schoolers.htm
Just as this article states, "Without experience, it’s hard for students to appreciate what type of career they’d like to have because it’s all hypothetical," which is why as a high school student, you should take the advantage of having pathway courses available to you and take them to prepare you for the future. Focusing on a career earlier can help you to decide whether or not is something you are serious about as a future career. It can give you the option of deciding before you go into college that maybe it is not what you thought it would be and you'd rather do something very different. Interning is another way to get ahead of the game. Interning within your community and within your career field can help you to get more hands on experience. You can learn so much from a mentor who is willing to teach you all about the insight of what happens on an everyday basis in the life of that career. Your schools should also offer you different pathway based clubs such as Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) or Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). These groups can help to prepare you for any situations you could face in these jobs later on and give you more experience with the type of people you will be working with.
A lot of people job shadow and get so much out of it, which is why starting early with experience within your future career field is important. High school students have now started getting this early experience through jobs, internships, and other activities such as clubs. Some of these clubs are DECA, FBLA, FCCLA, or SkillsUSA, which all have the same goal to promote career readiness. There are also classes that are given to students as options, like Food and nutrition, Education, Cosmetology, etc. These classes prepare you or sometimes even give you the first class credit for college. They also give you opportunities to talk to workers already in those careers about as to whether or not they enjoy it or not.
This article is taken from a credible site. It comes from a government source, which makes it valid. Elka Torpey, the author of this article, is a economist for Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is a Federal Agency that is responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. It collects and analyzes information about the economy to help make private and public decision making.
This article fits into my research, because it gives me more information about pathways and how focusing on them can help you in the future. It supports my research by giving examples about a real life student and councilor and their advice for students going through high school. I can use this information and statistics to help back me up in my research and ideas.