Career Opportunities

There many different career types that your students can fit in.

Team Technology, an online business resource, listed many career types and give personality tests to help your students check their match with the job.

Today's job markets require students to be productive and well trained to provide excellent service at their stations.

Consider the following descriptions of some real time jobs that are advertised:

• Architectural Drafter - Able to operate computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) equipment or conventional drafting station to produce designs, working drawings, charts, forms and records. Analyze building codes, by - laws, space and site requirements, and other technical documents and reports to determine their effect on architectural designs.
• Sales and Marketing Personel - Ability to close opportunities, drive solutions and advance sales growth. Have outstanding interpersonal skills, strategic and tactical planning expertise.
• Administrative Service Manager - Direct or coordinate the supportive service department of a business, agency, or organization. Prepare and review operational reports and schedules to ensure accuracy and efficiency. Set goals and deadlines for the department. Acquire, distribute and store supplies. Analyze internal processes and recommend and implement procedural or policy changes to improve operations such as supply changes or the disposal of records.
• Culinary Arts Hospitality Management Professional - Able to manage sales and retail, customer service, excellent communication skill, strong attention to detail. Knowledgeable on all aspects of restaurant management including menu planning and pre-costing, FIFO, and JIT inventory systems, marketing and sales goal planning, staff training and team building.

The job descriptions listed above are just examples that your students can research and look for courses that will prepare them for the above jobs.

Exercises like these will become good discussion points among your students.

Students can also research the availability of similar jobs and their areas of interest, as well as universities that will offer the training that they are keen to study in.