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Impact Report

For plan Youth Development (Valencia County)
Date October 15, 2008, 8:59 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report Career Development The Valencia County Home Economist in cooperation with Valencia High School completed two career development courses. The home economist met with students once a week for ten consecutive weeks during the student’s work-study period. Each semester the home economist worked with approximately eleven youth. A few of the topics covered over the ten week course include getting to know yourself, researching careers, finding and applying for a job, interviewing, workplace ethics, developing a positive attitude, interpersonal relationships at work, and professional communication skills. Course Objectives: • Help youth identify personal interests that could lead to a career choice. • Help youth learn more about themselves so they will be able to match their personality traits with a career in which those traits will help them to be successful. • Help students to learn various methods they can use to research careers. • Help students to begin the process of finding sources of job leads. • Help students investigate the job services offered by a public employment agency. • Role play interviews as a means of preparing youth for a job interview. • Demonstrate how cooperativeness, initiative, responsibility, and self-management can help the students to be more successful. • Help students to evaluate their attitudes toward other people and situations to see if their attitude needs to be improved.