Last year I taught a career prep class. I found a lot of good resources on the Internet. One of them was a video telling students how to use (and not use) the Internet for finding a job. In addition to the usual admonition about being careful about what they put on their Facebook pages, was the suggestion that they have a personal web site geared to show their interest and preparation for the job field they wish to enter.
This sounded like a really good idea. We could go through the same kind of process we did in class to identify their transferable skills, and take the product of their classwork and turn it into a web site designed to sell them to an employer.
They would blog about their prefered field of interest. They could share information about challenges they have faced and overcome. We could pick some of the things interviewers often ask and build blog entries or short video clips around them. Kids could practice, so that when they finally taped their video, it would be smooth and confident.
I'm very interested in seeing what we can do with this. I have also been suggesting to my son, Paul, who just graduated from SAU, that creating a professional blog based around his field could be a great tool for getting a job. I think this has lots of good possibilities.
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