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What is the Importance of Developing Job Skills?
Financial literacy is the way to teach! The class works in small groups to discover the relationship between education and income level. They use their math and problem-solving skills to complete two different activities. They work out a...
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Guide to Interviewing
Provide future managers with the skills they need to conduct a succesful interview with a potential employee. Establishing an interview schedule, preparing interview questions, tips for conducting an interview, and do's and don'ts are...
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The World of Work
Students identify between appropriate and inappropriate behaviors at work. In this work behaviors lesson, students use a dictionary to define the related terms and visit various links to complete activities that define work place...
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Employment Soft Skills: EL Civics
Help your English learners with their conversational and occupational skills in this presentation. A phone conversation between an employee (Sandy) and her boss (Mr. Williams) demonstrates English conversation procedures, as well as...
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Career Development: Interviewing
Prepping pupils for the real world is a vital part of our job. This activity focuses on getting upper graders ready for their first post-collegiate job interview. They will prepare a resume, research a potential company to work for, and...
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Resume Writing Workshop
The ability to write a concise and effective resume is an essential skill for those seeking employment. Prepare your pupils for the working world with a resume-writing assignment. Start off by showing them this presentation, which...
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Mini Me Society Economy Those Doggone Resumes
Third graders practice writing resumes. For this resume lesson, 3rd graders discover the attributes of resumes, complete an activity that exhibits their likes, and write their own resume as they follow the model provided in a PowerPoint...
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Work Conversation: Beginning ESL Lesson
Useful for a lesson about conversational English or vocational skills, this presentation features a short conversation between an employee and his boss. Pupils can practice their English greetings and occupational vocabulary. Pictures of...
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Customer Service: Checking Your Knowledge
In this job skills worksheet, students respond to 4 multi-part questions that require them to consider how they would handle customer relation skills.
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Tuesday Tours: Communication
Students explore communication skills. In this career traits instructional activity, students are introduced to Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis Model of Communication. Students discuss the impact of verbal and nonverbal communication...
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Resume Worksheet
In these resume worksheets, pupils complete the information listed on the resume as a part of a job application process.
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Writing a Resume
Ninth graders research a future career and write a resume for the job. In this job skills lesson, 9th graders work in groups to identify future job skills and duties. Students then write a resume for the job.
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Creating Star Quality Job Seekers
Students prepare to job hunt. In this job search lesson plan, students examine sample resumes and sample job applications. Students write their own resumes and discuss job interview tips. This lesson plan is set up for students to move...
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A Look at Our Community
Students identify jobs in their community. In this careers lesson plan, students make a list of jobs and the skills they require, then participate in community field trips or listen to speakers. Lesson includes extension ideas.
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Reading Comprehension- Job Opening: Legal Assistant
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a job advertisement for a legal assistant. They fill in 11 statements using words from a word bank that are based on comprehension of the advertisement.
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Job Fair
Students develop job interviewing skills by using role play.They practice interviewing in English. The lesson targets second language learners. The activity is ideal because the role playing allows for scaffolding and clarification to...
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Writing for Different Audiences: A Discussion of Cover Letters And Resumes
Learners examine the process of writing a resume. They identify examples of casual and formal language, read an article on writing resumes, discuss key questions, write a resume, and discuss and edit another student's resume.
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The Ideal Employee
Students participate in role playing activities that help them practice successful job interview skills. They take part in mock interviews with employers from the surrounding area. This provides excellent feedback for students about their m
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Creating an Effective Resume
Students assess their skills, then document their employment history by preparing a resume.
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Career Exploration Program
In these job skills worksheets, students read and rank the job skill options into the top ten skills. Students discuss the skills and how they are ranked.
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Interview Cheat Sheet
For this job skills worksheet, students prepare for a job interview by listing their skills and accomplishments according to various prompts.
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Job Skills
In this job skills worksheet, students read the sentences and choose the best word to complete the sentences about job skills. Students click on the answer button to find the answers to the 8 sentences.
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Job Education Worksheet
In this job education worksheet, students interview different people to gain information about their occupational folklife. Their goal is to determine where they learned job skills best.
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Who Works Here?
Fourth graders list all of the workers in their school. They interview them to find out more about each occupation.