Career Connections

Career Connections Resources for Both Students, Parents, and Teachers

It is highly important that our students begin to make career connections early in their education. By being informed on the multitude of careers and exposed to various real-life problems, students will be better equipped to make decisions and develop their own success plan. Therefore, this page has been developed to arm both students, parents, and our teachers with the tools necessary to help them through what can otherwise be an overwhelming task. Get started below by exploring the resources provided!

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Check out Career Builder's Latest Site: Find Your Calling

Career Builder's Site Find Your Calling is an easy way to start looking at career options based off of a few simple questions.

CareerOneStop for Career Exploration

CareerOneStop is your one-stop shop for exploring careers. This site comes complete with a skills matcher, job searches, career exploration information!

Xello

Xello is a college and career readiness solution for K-12 students that helps align their strengths and interests to post-secondary goals, and improve student outcomes. Through the South-Western City Schools, every student has an account whereby they can upload their resumes, recommendation letters, schedule college visitations, and complete various career exploration activities. The school Guidance Counselors will assist students in navigating this valuable tool to help align students with their career goals.

Ohio Means Jobs

The Ohio Means Jobs website is a great resource for students to begin to develop their career plan. With Ohio Means Jobs, students can create a personal profile, take an interest survey that will match careers with their interest, develop a career plan, search in demand careers, determine the skills necessary for success and colleges that can deliver these skills, find job postings, and take practice assessments such as the SAT or ACT.

Ohio Means Jobs is a great online counseling tool for both parents and students to use in planning for a career. Check out the video and good luck!

LinkedIn can be a great tool for junior and senior students to begin building their profile and adding to their network. LinkedIn is a social media site for professionals to become connected with others in the area of their focused career interests.

When a profile for LinkedIn has been completed, it essentially acts as an online resume used to promote one's skills, experience, aspirations, and much more. LinkedIn allows employers to search for potential employees and allows individuals to search for jobs, follow companies, and join groups. Check out the video to learn more about how LinkedIn can benefit you!

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Students
Parents
Teachers

This tab provides students access to a wealth of information for developing their career success plan.

This tab provides parents with the information needed to help their child create a successful career plan.

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Note: This tab provides a multitude of resources teachers can use when developing career aligned lessons.

Website Resources

CTE Online is a great source of projects and lessons for both academic and career technical teachers.

This site contains multiple career-related activities and lessons.

CTE Online is a grea resource to find lessons and activies.

The above link is a great site to find lessons covering a nice range of topics. Some of the lessons/tutorials are interactive, while others provide printable lesson materials.

Find multiple scholarships to apply to and up your chances at getting your schooling paid for!

Prepfactory is a great place for students to find help in preparing for the SAT or the ACT--and it's free! Give it a try!

Kids.gov offers more ways to discover and explore careers.

Click the above link to access and begin filling out your Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

Search for scholarships, internships, colleges and more by clicking the image above.

ProfessorWord is a free browser tool that helps you learn SAT, ACT, and GRE words on any site with just a simple click.

South-Western City School District Career Tech

It is the policy of the South-Western City School District not to discriminate, in violation of federal, state, or local laws, on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, veteran’s status, religion, disability, age, gender, genetic information, or sexual orientation in admission to access to, treatment in, or employment in any service, program, or activity sponsored by the South-Western City School District. The Board’s policy of nondiscrimination extends to students, staff, job applicants, the general public, and individuals or organizations with whom it does business. Inquiries or complaints regarding compliance with this policy or the nondiscrimination requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title II, Title VI or Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendment Act of 1972, Age Uniformed Services, Executive Order 11246, Equal Pay Act, Immigration Act of 1990, Ohio Revised Code, and Columbus City Code should be directed to Amber Hufford, Student Services Coordinator, 3805 Marlane Drive, Grove City, Ohio 43123-3304, telephone 801-3000, or to the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, or the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Copies of the Nondiscrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy and Grievance Procedures are available in all school administrative offices, the Board of Education office, the Southwest Public Librarys, and on the South-Western City School's website at www.swcsd.us.