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Through Replicated Reality, we have envisioned a career center in each local school – even at the elementary level! It’s never too early to promote career awareness and options! Our career center package sets up a place where students can go to explore different career areas, take part in video interviewing, get employment application and resume help or, with additional lab modules, take part in trying out different job skills.
Our goal with the career center is to give students a space to explore some options, without pressure, both in the community and globally. Career Center employees will be trained in basic employment processes, such as filling out applications, creating a basic resume, conducting an interview, and going on an interview. These trained employees can then mentor other students and even conduct interviews for teachers. Our package includes a video camera and tripod so in-person interviews can be recorded for teacher review.
The career center can also be used as a club sign-up center for various school clubs like LEGO or Safety Patrol. Participation in school clubs can easily work into our online jobs module, where students can earn a paycheck for participation – thus encouraging and rewarding extracurricular involvement.
As part of our career center curriculum, we have also included tools and ideas to create a school-wide career day. These tools include invitations to guest speakers to speak at your school about a variety of jobs and careers. Hosting a career day is an excellent opportunity to create community connectedness as well as promote greater career awareness for your students. It also provides an opportunity for your career center employees to shine as ambassadors of your school!
Implementing a career center within the elementary environment can help promote a healthy view and awareness of what a student’s future can look like. By creating a priority on career awareness and exploration, students are given the ability to consider various career areas. Introducing employment processes familiarize students with common vocabulary and interactions that will help them succeed both academically and outside the classroom. Advantages and benefits of prioritizing career awareness through a local career center include:
Career Tech Education
A career center will give older students the opportunity to experience an on-site job, including an entire application and interview process. This experience offers valuable skill building in basic career skills and communication. In addition to career center employees, the space will give students a place to explore career areas in age-appropriate ways. Through our brochures and curriculum, our additional lab components, or community involvement like Career Day or guest speakers, there is something for everyone.
Community Awareness
By exploring jobs and careers in the community, students begin to become aware of a variety of options and individuals. Providing a deeper understanding of these jobs help students realize the true inner workings of their community and the world around them.
Social Emotional Learning
Through the mentor driven program of the career center employees, students engage in peer-to-peer interactions both in a casual and more professional settings. Career center employees are trained in the soft skills of customer service as well as professional communication skills as interviewers. All students are encouraged to self-reflect and identify interests, hobbies, and strengths that could lead to greater self-satisfaction, self-esteem and empowering the student’s decision-making abilities.
Personal Connections
Personal connections both within the school and community are encouraged through the career center. Students can connect and be inspired through interactions with peer mentors in the career center itself or through community interactions with guest speakers, community volunteers and more.
Language Arts / Math / Social Studies – Additional Value to Existing Assignment
Career research can be an enriching activity to many academic assignments. Our career center can provide information about a particular job through our “What’s it like?” series or enrich a math assignment by comparing salaries of various careers. Whether it’s a report, community research, or math comparisons, the career center can provide an additional hands-on enrichment for your academic experience.
Our Career Center package includes everything you need to set up a simple career center. As part of the initial purchase, we will even come to your site to help you get everything up and running smoothly! The career center includes:
Custom Career Center Signage Including Your School Logo
With each center, you will have the option for a stand-up or hanging banner branded with your school logo to seamlessly integrate with your school. These signs are sure to assist students in identifying the new school service you are offering and encourage school spirit and a sense of ownership to the newly implemented school community space.
Large Bulletin Board
This bulletin board provides adequate space for employment opportunity announcements custom to your school. Employment opportunity could be club sign-ups, interest in any of the Replicated Reality on-site employment, or anything that you might need.
Video Camera & Tripod
By implementing an interview space, you can introduce students to the concept of self-recording an interview response (following many of today’s remote trends), conduct and record student-to-student interviews (allowing students the experience on both sides of the table, recorded for teacher review), or conduct teacher-to-student interviews in a professional setting. Career Center student employees will be trained for use of the video camera and tripod to offer assistance to any career center customer.
Basic Card Readers
Card readers allow employees to “clock-in” using their student IDs, as well as customers to scan for services.
Career Center Educational Brochures
Eight high-quality glossy trifold brochures that include titles such as “What’s it Like to be a Teacher?”, “What’s it Like to be a Bus Driver?”, “What’s it Like to be a Social Media Influencer?”, “What is a Career?”, and “How to fill out a Job Application” will provide schools with supplemental materials to the Replicated Reality curriculum. Additional “What’s it Like” series will be continuously added for additional purchase. By offering these brochures for both upper and lower elementary grades, there will be educational resources fit for all career center customers.
Brochure Displays
Simple counter brochure display stands will make set up and offering of the brochure resources easy and effective. These eight-slot stands conveniently hold all brochures offered in the package, making them readily available to career center customers.