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Career Exploration

To maintain a thriving economy, students need to be prepared for high-demand, well-paying jobs, yet there are currently more jobs than skilled workers to fill them. This series looks at how schools are preparing students for the future workforce.

New coordinator will be face of career-work experience effort

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema

Her role includes creating job opportunities, serving as a liaison with businesses and helping students hone skills employers want them to master...

Heavy-metal ready

Career Exploration Erin Albanese

Fourteen students, including several women, graduated from the first cohort of Metallica Scholars, an eight-week welding course...

Students earn credits, gain jobs through GRCC training program

Career Exploration Erin Albanese

After more than 600 hours spent learning to build houses, fix cars, take blood pressure and complete other skills needed for jobs available in West Michigan, 52 students graduated in December from the GRCC Job Training programs...

Educators connect students with workforce opportunities

Career Exploration Erin Albanese

Apprenticeships provide pathways to in-demand, high wage careers, a U.S. Department of Labor representative recently told high school students...

Students tour world of manufacturing

All Districts Linda Odette

Touring several local plants, students learned manufacturing isn’t what it used to be...

Women in skilled trades hone skills, explore careers, network with industry experts

Career Exploration Erin Albanese

Project Accelerate is a seven-week, once-weekly course offered through The Build Initiative, a Pontiac-based program that works to build knowledge for women interested in construction and related fields...

Hopes, Dreams and Here We Go

Career Exploration Charles Honey

To help seniors prepare for “life’s next step,” Northview’s English 12 classes teach students employability skills such as résumés, job interviews and public speaking...

Grant Gives Students Welding Skills, Virtual-style

Kent ISD Janice Holst

Whether you are in high school attempting to settle on a career, an adult back to school to upgrade skills or a young child...

From Construction Class to Happy Homeowners

Career Exploration Erin Albanese

Talk about being invested in your students' work. After students spent last school year building a house through the East Kentwood High School residential construction...

Students Get the Lowdown on High-Tech Jobs

Career Exploration Charles Honey

Remington Switzer has been “messing with computers” for most of his life, loves gaming and is interested in a career in programming. But visiting...

Interviewing 101 Helps Students Hone Skills

Career Exploration Charles Honey

Had it been a real job interview, Katlyn Siddall might well have been hired. In a practice interview in the high school library, Katlyn told...

Pounding, Assembling, Constructing a Possible Future

Career Exploration Erin Albanese

When it comes to starting early in career exploration, Kentwood elementary students are hitting the nail on the head – literally. During a science, technology,...

Girls ‘Inspired to do More’ at Tech Camp

Career Exploration Erin Albanese

Eighth-grader Hien-Tran Bui entered coding commands for her website focused on tips for putting on makeup. She had just learned the basics of site-building...

Wanted: More Than a Few Work-ready Graduates

Career Exploration Erin Albanese

Let's talk about a glaring example of the disconnect between the workforce and the pipeline of students who will soon enter it. Last spring, Kent...

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