Pathways+Week+7

= ** Happy Monday to everyone, hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. ** =



**As promised here it the link to KahnAcademy.org. **

**Tuesday March 8 -** Mr. Frank Kennedy from Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week will be coming to talk to you about this wonderful opportunity

You will be presenting your "Hello My Name Is" PowerPoint this week.

** Presentation Dates: ** ** Black Day - Monday March 7/Wednesday March 9 ** ** Red Day - Tuesday March 8/Thursday March 10 **

Make sure that you have followed the directions/rubric ([|Instructions & Rubric]) that was handed out in class. Regardless if you created a Prezi or a PowerPoint you must upload your presentation to your E-Portfolio (Wikispace) in the Personal Characteristics page.

** Here are the directions: ** ** PowerPoint ** - If you have created a PowerPoint you must save it as a PDF and then uploaded to SlideShare. Once you have uploaded the presentation you will embed it into your E-Portfolio. Click [|here] for the upload directions.

**Prezi** – If you created a Prezi you must copy the embedding code in as a widget into your E-Portfolio. Click [|here] for the directions. Once everyone has presented we will start working on your resumes.

Home Page of your E-Portfolio - Please ensure that you have completed your Home page by Friday March 11. You are requried to have an introduction to your space which includes what you are doing now and what your aspirations are. Click on the link to look at Patty-Ways ﻿ to give you ideas.

__**Résumé/Curriculum Vitae **__



Click on this link [|resume] for a sample. You can also find this in my OUTBOX, you will use this as a guide to create your own resume. You may also take a look at my resume under About Me page here on my wiki.

[|Parts of a resume]we will be going over together in class.

You will submit a rough draft and it will be returned to you for revisions. You will have several revisions before you are done. You will be required to complete a [|resume references]. Once final revisions are done then you may complete the [|guidance counselor] form, please request an appointment with your guidace counselor via e-mail so you can discuss your resume and options for future classes, possible post secondary schools, jobs, etc. You will be uploading your resume onto your E-Portfolio in your Experience page. You will also upload onto Naviance.

**This is an intersting article: **

**4 jobs everyone should have ** By Rachel Farrell, Special to CareerBuilder

Before I started working in "the real world," I had several part-time jobs. I babysat. I worked in a fast-food restaurant. I worked in retail. I worked as a waitress at a bar in my hometown. And each time I came home complaining after a hard day's work, my mom would tell me that someday I would realize the value in the job I had. Fast-forward some years later, and only now do I realize the meaning of her words. Every job I had taught me something, not just about work ethic, but also about life. [|Bing: How to steer clear of job scams] Here are four jobs that can teach you valuable life lessons: **1. [|Server] ** <span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Everyone's been to a restaurant with bad service. You have a slow, inattentive server. Your food comes out the wrong way. And as a result, you tip the bare minimum -- or nothing at all. <span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">But have you ever stopped to think that it's not always the server's fault? (I mean, sometimes it is, but not always.) He or she could have given the cook your correct order -- but the cook messed up. A colleague could have called in sick, leaving your server with all of the tables in the restaurant. Yet the server takes the blame. **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What you'll learn: **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A job in food service teaches you empathy. Not only for the server, but for people in general. After all -- not everything is as it seems. Think about that the next time you want to leave a next-to-nothing tip. **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">2. [|Retail clerk] ** <span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">You can always tell if someone has worked in retail before. Those who haven't sometimes treat sales clerks rudely or like they are above the workers. They may act as if the associate's only job in life is to assist in their retail therapy. Those who have worked in retail tend to have a little more patience with the sales associates and are more respectful toward them. **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What you'll learn: **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Just because someone's job is to help you doesn't give you the right to be rude or disrespectful. Those two virtues -- patience and respect -- will take you a long way in the way you treat other people. **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">3. [|Customer service] ** <span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Think about all of the times you've called customer service, whether at an airline, a cable company, your cell phone provider or an insurance company. Chances are, you called when you were angry or had a complaint. You probably chose to take your frustrations out on the customer service rep. <span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">After working in customer service -- specifically at a call center -- you'll hopefully change your behavior. You realize that whatever you're upset about is not the rep's fault. In fact, you know they want to help you. **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What you'll learn: **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A job in customer service can teach you kindness and will make you think twice about the way you treat people. **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">4. [|Manual labor] ** <span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">It goes without saying that manual labor of any type, whether mowing lawns or construction, is hard work. Those who perform manual labor or have in the past know that the hours are long, the work is hard and you have to pay attention to everything, as safety is a large issue in most manual labor positions. **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What you'll learn: **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">More than anything, manual labor will teach you work ethic. There is little room for error and no matter what you're doing, you'll be working hard. <span style="background: white; color: #07519a; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-decoration: none; textunderline: none;">[|Bing: Skills every employer wants]

**// Objective: //** // Students will be able to articulate their experiences by developing a rough draft of a resume and then after being proofread will create a good copy of a resume'. Students will be able to share this information with their guidance counselors and seek additional input for post-secondary training. //

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