Workshop #7: Career Readiness - Herszaft
- Work, Learn, & Grow Staff
- Dec 11, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Dec 18, 2023
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DUE: DEC 16th by 12 PM
Prompts (answer in at least 200 words):
What does it mean to you to be career-ready?
How has this WLG experience helped you to become both college and career-ready?
What "life skills" would you like to learn in the future to become more career-ready? What skills would be useful to know?
Reminders:
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To get full credit:
You must have written your response & posted by the deadline
You must have replied to two peers
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Aliya Leger
Career ready to me is acquiring elements and skill sets for you need for any career path you may choose in the future. Some of the skill sets are communication, teamwork & interpersonal, leadership, creativity & problem solving, professionalism & productivity, global perspective and digital fluency. The WLG experience has prepared me for college and my future career by helping me think deeper into my likes and interests and things I can and can not do, people and things I can and can not work around etc. I thought about my short and long term goals when it comes to myself or my career or education. Some life skills I would like to learn more about in the…
Camila Alcedo
To me being career ready is the process of preparing students of any age with the essential skills they need to find, acquire, maintain, and grow within a job. Technically is to make sure you have the skills that it take in that career. I would say yes, because of all the researches that I have do to for the homeworks,helped me to discovered those little pieces. The life-skills i would like to earn in the future to become more career ready are problem solving, critical thinking, communication skills, decision-making, creative thinking, interpersonal relationship skills, self awareness building skills. Th most useful to know can be problem solving,communication skills, decision-making.
Jayden Mero
To me career-ready means that you know what career job you want to do and you are both mentally and physically ready to pursue that career. It could also mean to have a lot of knowledge on different careers and not just one, giving you more opportunities to pursue different careers. The WLG experience has helped me to become both college and career-ready by giving me life skills that I will use in both categories. It also taught me more about my career and if the major that I want to study is right for me. I would say some life skills that I would like to learn in the future to become more career ready would be…
Vivian Lamb
What it means to be career ready is to have a good understanding of your workplace values, interests, and goals. When you have a good understanding of them it will make it easier for you to pursue whichever career path you want to take as well as give you a good idea on what kind of employee you will be. Another way to be career ready is being well prepared for the career you are pursuing. That includes creating a resume, preparing for interviews, having good professional behavior and understanding the work ethics of the company that you wish to work for and how that aligns with your values. WLG has helped me become both colledge a career…
Nikhil Saili
Being career-ready means that you understand the basics of the career you are pursuing and the work ethic that the field of work requires. This WLG experience has helped me to become both college and career-ready by teaching me the essential information that a college student should have and telling me information on the certain careers I can pursue. One life skill I would like to learn in the future to become career-ready is how taxes work since taxes are extremely important and they develop financial literacy. some other skills that would be useful to know are how to efficiently have good time management skills, organizational skills, and how to learn as fast as possible effectively. I believe…