Advisory Survey

April 26, 2016

• Advisory Survey
• Look up your grades in power school and on blackboard (it's been three weeks!)
• Get the same colors you used before
• Mark your high school and college grades 
• Did you meet your goal?
• Fill out the reflection and look at the college readiness rubic

HS Reunion Prep

April 19, 2016

• Choose your three best facts from the first part of the questions AND three from the bottom section to write down on a piece of paper
• Pick two big events that has happened in your life in the "ten year"that has been most meaningful to you
• Write two diary entries explaining those event (this can be typed)
• Refer to the questions on the last blog post.

Prep Mock High School Reunion

April 13, 2016

• We are going to have a mock 10 year high school reunion next week
• Answer all of the following questions realistically: 
• What college did you go to?
• What level of education did you finish?
• Was was your major(s)?
• What is your current job?
• What is your current salary?
• What city are you living in?
• What is the greatest professional accomplishment so far?
• Choose at last 4 of the following to answer (if the answer is no then that does not count as one):
• Are you married?  Describe your spouse/wedding.
• Do you have children?  Describe them.
• What are your hobbies?
• Do you have pets?  Describe them.
• What is your greatest personal accomplishment so far?
• How many weddings have you been in and whose were they?
• Roll a dice to have one of the following affect your life:
• 1-got a job promotion
• 2-car was totaled
• 3-you were unemployed for a year
• 4-took in a family member
• 5-career change/went back to school
• 6-won lottery
• Roll again to see how much you won

Interviews

April 12, 2016

Objective:  I CAN be prepared for interviews in my career.

• You should be professional and serious
• Go to your assigned room
• 10 minutes to interview 
• 10 minutes to be interviewed
• 5 minutes to complete the rubric and turn it in!

Interview Prep

April 7, 2016

Objective:  I CAN be prepared for interviews in my career.

• Pretend you have graduated from college and are now looking for a job in your field
• You are going to be interviewed and you are going to interview someone else
• Your job is to make sure you can confidently answer questions related to your field
• there are sample questions below
• Look over the rubric your classmate will use to grade your interview next Tuesday: Rubric
• Look at the you're hired column
• 1.  Which 3 do you think you will be the easiest for you
• 2.  Which 3 do you think will be the hardest for you
• Look at the list of the most asked interview questions: 
• Interview Questions
• 3. Pick at least 4 strong questions you will ask someone else from this list that you think will help you get to know someone 
• 4.  Pick at least 6 questions that you think would best represent you and answer them to TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY!
• These do not have to be the same as the ones you will ask others
• These should be well thought out answers that should be multiple sentences each!

• Look at the list of career questions:
• http://jobsearch.about.com/od/interviewquestionsanswers/a/job-specific-interview-questions.htm
• http://www.job-interview.net/interviewbyjob.htm
• 1.  Pick at least 3 career specific questions you will ask form the lists that will help you decide if you should hire someone (WRITE THEM DOWN TO USE TUESDAY)
• 2.  Pick at least 6 questions  for your career and answer them to the BEST OF YOUR ABILITY!
• These should be well thought out answers that should be multiple sentences each!

Next Tuesday 

• You should be professional and serious
• Go to your assigned room
• 10 minutes to interview 
• 10 minutes to be interviewed
• 5 minutes to complete the rubric and turn it in!

Finish Cover Letter

April 5, 2016

Look at the tips and samples of cover letters from two weeks ago.

Imagine you are about you graduate from your dream college and you are applying to your dream job

Write a sample of what your cover letter should be

• Should only be one page typed (no longer)
• Needs to be 3-5 paragraphs, including
  1) Introduction
  2) 1-3 paragraphs demonstrating your qualifications
  3)Conclusion

Use the samples to help you and remember to add things you want to do when you are in college ideally