Best Job 2008

What's my job game

Click here for a printable card game. After you use the clues in this game, have students create their own clue cards to guess new jobs.

interview101

Conduct interviews with a partner or your teacher! Click here for interview questions and tips.

Where do I fit in?

Click here for a printable packet of goal setting and career interest worksheets.

resume101

Want to write your first resume? Click here for a resume maker just for kids! This lesson is best taught with a laptop for each student.

Be your own boss game!

Here's your chance to be your own boss! Pick a business you would like to start, and see how well you can make it grow. Make decisions wisely... because you can run it (and yourself!) into the ground if you make not-so-smart choices. Good luck!

Interview your mom or dad about their job!

Do you really know what your mom or dad does for a living and the path they took to get there? During advisory, create a list of 20 questions that you would like to ask your parents about their career choices. Go home and conduct the interview and bring the results back to share with your advisory group...you might be surprised at what you learn!

Some questions to consider:

1. When you were my age, what did you think you wanted to be when you grew up?
2. What was your first job? Did you have a job as a teenager? What did you like/not like about it?
   
3. What made you decide to go to the college you went to? Or why did you decide not to go to college?
4. If you went to college, what did you major in? What made you choose this?
5. What was your first career? What were some things that you remember about having this new responsibility?
6. Have you ever changed careers? Did you have to go back to school to do that? What made you change your career?
7. Would you want me to go into the type of work that you do? Why or why not?
8. What is it you enjoy most about your job? Least?
9. If you could go back in time and choose another path, would you? What would it be?
10. What advice do you have for me about choosing a career?
    

Career Videos

Click the tv above to explore hundreds of short videos on different careers.

So, what do you want to be when you grow up?

You have so many options available to you! Click here for a career database that will give you tons of information about any career that you are interested in.