Next Stop: Job
Are you interested in ways of preparing for your future career? The “Next Stop: Job!” curriculum teaches youth in an engaging fashion about how to prepare for their start in the workforce. Geared toward high school students, it provides youth with practical and necessary resources on how to write a cover letter, design a résumé, conduct themselves in an interview, dress for success, and finally how to manage their money. Check out the resources below for more about “Next Stop: Job!”
Lesson Plan
Teacher/Leader Resources
Fantastic Cover Letter
- JobStart, part 5: Writing the cover letter
- Build Your Future: Choices, Connections, Careers – Facilitator Guide and a Career Journal for each student
- Barnes and Noble basics: Getting a job
- 5-minute career activities
- Workforce readiness: Get in the act! Workforce readiness group activities for middle school youth
- Are you a teen worker?
- Career quizzes: 12 tests to help you discover and develop your dream career
Designing an Awesome Résumé
- JobStart,Part 4: Preparing your resume
- Build Your Future: Choices, Connections, Careers – Facilitator Guide and a Career Journal for each student
- 5-minute career activities
- Dream Catchers: Developing career and educational awareness
- Career quizzes: 12 tests to help you discover and develop your dream career
- Swanson, D. (1995). The Resume solution: How to write (and use) a resume that gets results, 2nd. edition. St. Paul, MN: JIST Works, Inc.
How to Ace an Interview
- The Perfect Business Handshake – Activity and Handout
- Communications Toolkit
- Navigating Social Media Sites for Teenagers – Fact sheet
- Interviewing Tips – Fact sheet
- Speak up: A guide to public speaking – Fact sheet
- Build Your Future: Choices, Connections, Careers – Facilitator Guide and a Career Journal for each student
- Career quizzes: 12 tests to help you discover and develop your dream career
Dressing for Success
- Dress to Impress
- 5-minute career activities
- Career quizzes: 12 tests to help you discover and develop your dream career
Money, Money, Money: How to Manage Your Earnings
- Florida/IFAS Department of Youth, Family, and Community Sciences
- My Financial Future
- What are teens spending most of their money on?
- Living On My Own Simulation – Available at your local UF/IFAS Extension office