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EMPOWER YOUR FUTURE: CAREER READINESS CURRICULUM GUIDE Empower Your Future Overview: Career Readiness Curriculum Guide SECOND EDITION tableof contents Empower Your Future is comprised of five domains: Beginning Your Journey, Know Yourself, Exploring Careers, Strategies for Success and What’s Next. Each domain includes comprehensive lesson plans that contain a variety of lessons and activities. The Guide supports and is aligned with the Massachusetts Career Development Benchmarks. Empower Your Future Overview........................i Unit 4: Strategies for Success Using the Guide............................................iii Part I: Job Readiness Ice-Breakers/Team-Building Topic 1: Motivation and Initiative.................146 Activities Resources........................................iv Topic 2: Workplace Safety..........................151 Topic 3: Technology Etiquette Unit 1: Beginning Your Journey, in the Workplace...........................164 Career Readiness Orientation Topic 4: New Employee Payroll Process Topic 1: Orientation and Professionalism..........1 and Your Paycheck........................170 Topic 2: Know Yourself ...................................8 Topic 5: Time Management.........................173 Topic 3: Possible Selves — Topic 6: Positive Working Relationships........179 Breaking Out of the Box...................23 Topic 4: How Beliefs/Attitude Part II: Obtaining and Retaining Work Affect Decisions...............................32 Topic 1: Job Searching...............................197 Topic 5: Communication Skills.......................42 Topic 2: Job Applications and Inquiries ........202 Topic 6: Interpersonal Skills...........................50 Topic 3: Resume ........................................211 Topic 7: Exploring Careers............................63 Topic 4: Job Interviews ...............................223 Topic 8: Goal Setting/Success.......................67 Topic 5: Cover and Thank You Letters...........233 Topic 9: Moving Forward .............................74 Topic 6: Building a Network/References.......242 Topic 7: Job Retention ................................247 Unit 2: Know Yourself Topic 8: Job Advancement..........................259 Topic 1: Positive Identity ...............................84 Topic 2: Occupational Interests......................95 Unit 5: What’s Next Topic 3: Work Values .................................102 Topic 1: Success at Work: Tips for Your Topic 4: Short-Term Goal Setting..................106 First Days at a New Job.................266 Topic 5: Highlighting Your Strengths — Topic 2: Coping.........................................270 Creating an Elevator Speech ..........110 Topic 3: Community Resources ....................275 Topic 4: Personal Finance and Budgeting .....278 Unit 3: Exploring Careers Topic 5: Long-Term Goal Setting ..................298 Topic 1: Individual and Transferable Skills ....116 Topic 2: Career Search ..............................121 Topic 3: Education and Training ..................125 Topic 4: Exploring Careers through Informational Interviews and Job Shadows...........135 Topic 5: Internships ....................................139 EMPOWER YOUR FUTURE: CAREER READINESS CURRICULUM GUIDE Empower Your Future Overview: Career Readiness Curriculum Guide Commonwealth Corporation is pleased to publish this edition of Empower Your Future: Career Readiness Curriculum Guide. Empower Your Future is a life skills, career development and employability curriculum guide developed for use by program staff taking part in the Bridging the Opportunity Gap Initiative funded by the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS). Commonwealth Corporation, in collaboration with DYS, is excited about expanding the reach of this Guide for use by public schools, agencies, non-profits and organizations who are committed to enhancing education, employment and positive outcomes for youth across the Commonwealth. i EMPOWER YOUR FUTURE: CAREER READINESS CURRICULUM GUIDE Introduction Commonwealth Corporation, the state’s quasi-public workforce development agency, in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, has collaborated with youth-serving agencies and organizations to produce this Guide and address the career readiness and employability needs of youth and young adults across the state. To support young people’s successful transition to work and career, the Guide was developed to take into account a variety of learning styles, to be interactive and engaging to youth and to be delivered in a “hands-on” manner. The material covered in the Guide is based on a positive youth development model that is asset-based, culturally responsive, and focused on the essential work and life skills necessary for personal and family self-sufficiency. The Guide contains units on several important aspects of work readiness including self assessment, exploring careers and the nuts and bolts of getting and keeping jobs like resume writing, completing job applications, interacting with co-workers and taking initiative. With a consistent focus on positive identity, the activities in the guide reinforce both social-emotional and employability skills to support personal and professional achievement for young people. The Guide can be used in both short-term and longer-term youth employment programs. Guide users can follow the units sequentially or adapt sections to develop a customized scope and sequence of activities and work-readiness projects. In addition to the four main units, there is an introductory work-readiness module that can be developed into a pre-placement component or a stand-alone course in short-term work and learning programs such as summer employment initiatives. An optional portfolio component is built into many of the units. Young people could complete the training contained in this Guide with a career portfolio (hard and electronic version) serving as a concrete product to share with prospective employers, community service organizations or education-related organizations. The portfolio could include: • A resume • Cover letters • Sample thank-you note • Copies of certifications and/or training certificates • Reference letters (preferably from employers and program staff) • Vocational competencies earned (if applicable) • Writing sample • A completed job application • A sample employment email inquiry ii EMPOWER YOUR FUTURE: CAREER READINESS CURRICULUM GUIDE Using the Guide This guide offers a variety of activities, games, and discussion questions to help young people discover new information and practice new skills in relationship to their job and career development. The Guide provides a set of curriculum units that focus on an interactive and participatory approach to facilitating this curriculum. Through your interactions with participating youth, you will be able to help youth make connections to what they already know, and find ways to make the information relevant to their lives. The intent of the Guide is to help direct service staff in community based programs shape a fun and energetic learning environment for youth. Keep in mind that it’s important to be flexible and not feel like you need to get through every last activity in the Guide. You can always make adjustments to the curriculum and the young people themselves will help guide the pace and direction of many discussions. Unit One This guide is organized into five units. The first unit was created as an optional two-week (30-hour) initial training for young people to complete as an introduction to subsidized employment or private sector placements. It is one way to get to know young people, understand where they are at on their professional journey and provide basic personal and professional development training to ensure they are properly prepared for their upcoming work experience. We understand that not all programs have the capacity to provide a 30-hour training for their young people, so we encourage you to choose the pieces of the training that are most relevant and could have the greatest impact on your program participants. Units Two-Five The other four units are all organized in a similar way. At the beginning of each unit, you will find a variety of quotes that can be mixed and matched with the various sessions included in the session. The quotes can be used in the introduction to the day or at the end of the day as a way to reflect on the session’s learning. The sessions can be mixed and matched depending on your program and the young people in your program. The professional development training component of your program does not have to end when employment opportunities begin. Some sites have had great success infusing the professional development training throughout their program to continue to support young people as they progress through the program. iii EMPOWER YOUR FUTURE: CAREER READINESS CURRICULUM GUIDE Ice Breakers/Team-Building Activities Resources http://wilderdom.com/games/ http://www.icebreakers.ws/ http://www.ultimatecampresource.com/site/camp-activities/ice-breakers.html http://www.teampedia.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page http://dsa.csupomona.edu/osl/studentmanual/team.asp http://www.businessballs.com/teambuildinggames.htm http://www.teachmeteamwork.com/teachmeteamwork/master_games_list/ http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~bdg/communication.html http://www.campuus.org/resources/files/Icebreakers.pdf iv EMPOWER YOUR FUTURE: CAREER READINESS CURRICULUM GUIDE UNIT 1: BEGINNING YOUR JOURNEY BEGINNING YOUR JOURNEY EMPOWER YOUR FUTURE: CAREER READINESS CURRICULUM GUIDE tableof contents Unit 1: Beginning Your Journey, Career Readiness Orientation Topic 1: Orientation
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