(YCB) Your Career and Beyond Module Wrap Up

Your Career and Beyond Module Wrap Up

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Sixteen Career Clusters were created nationally to help students be more successful and to better prepare for college. Within these career clusters are career pathways that offer more specific training and the opportunity for students to earn nationally recognized credentials in a career field. This course is the gateway course in two Career Clusters with a total of six Career Pathways.

Professional development is a continuous improvement process lasting from the time an individual decides to enter the workforce until retirement. It encompasses the processes that workers engage in to initially prepare themselves, continuously update themselves, and review and reflect on their own performance.

Professional development can take many forms. Obtaining additional college degrees or doing other coursework is one common way to develop professionally, but not the only way. Professional conferences supply informal learning opportunities situated in practice. Subscriptions to professional journals, mentoring, and job shadowing opportunities are also important components of professional development.

Studies have proven that when young people volunteer, more adults volunteer also. When young people volunteer, the community gains a generation of young people who are about where they live and are willing to make a commitment to improvement.

One benefit of participating in a Career and Technical Student Organization is the opportunity to compete and win. For FBLA, it all begins with region competition, then moves from there to state and national levels. If you prefer to compete only against yourself, another way to gain recognition through FBLA is through the Business Achievement Awards or BAA.

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