Students get career guidance - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Thursday | April 17, 2014

Students get career guidance - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Thursday | April 17, 2014

GET READY FOR CHOICES IN MONTEGO BAY, TUESDAY APRIL 15, 2014

Are you planning to be part of Jamaica’s world-class workforce of the 21st century? Well come to our CHOICES Zoom Seminar entitled “Preparing for The Future World of Work”. Further details are below: DATE: Tuesday April 15, 2014 TIME: 9 a.m. – 3p.m. (Registration from 8a.m. – 9a.m.). LOCATION: West Jamaica Conference Centre, Mount Salem, Montego Bay TARGET GROUP: Secondary-level students ENTRANCE COST: $300 per student. All students who attend will do The Career Key Test, critical to making the correct career choice and which they will get to keep for themselves. Career counselling will be available. For more information follow this link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p5ywoyxP48&feature=em-share_video_user Teachers accompanying students enter free of cost. This event will use the proven and successful CHOICES one-stop-shop formula with students participating in talks and presentations and exhibitors sharing in the activities in order to provide relevant information for them. There will be presentations & talks on The Future World of Work including Preparing for STEM Careers, Writing A Winning Cover Letter & Resume and more. During this event students will be introduced to job-ready requirements such as the soft skills, the 17 foundation skills which will help them to success - valuing cultural differences, diversity; reading; writing; listening; speaking; mathematics – and much more, creating their life success portfolio . There will be lots of prizes, give-aways and contests for teachers and students. ON SALE: CHOICES Magazines for all grade levels at $100 each and other CHOICES materials. CHOICES CAREER RESOURCE INFORMATION PACKAGES - $3500 each on that day only for counsellors, form teachers, grade supervisors, libraries and career resource areas. We look forward to your response and to your school’s participation. We must advise that the earlier you can confirm your attendance the better as there will be limited space available.

CARIBBEAN TOURING

A week "on the road" at the end of January 2014 saw CHOICES popping in to Barbados, moving on to St. Kitts-Nevis and rounding off with a quick stop in St. Lucia. Students in secondary schools in Barbados, St. Lucia and St.Kitts benefitted from career awareness workshops while counsellors in St. Kitts-Nevis received introductory training to CHOICES and its products including The Career Key, Caribbean edition. New schools added to our list were Ellerslie Secondary in Barbados - kudos to Mrs. Andrea Baptiste and Mr. Cumberbatch - and Saddler's and Charles E. Mills Secondaries and Basseterre High in St. Kitts - thanks to Mr. Dublin-Collins, Ms Everlene Huggins and Ms Charmaine Heyliger at BHS, Anester Mulraine and Mr. Roysdean Richards at CEMSS.  The big link-up of Dr. Lawrence Jones, author and President of The Career Key took place in Basseterre for the training of the counsellors there.

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