Who can use
Vocational Biographies?
Vocational Biographies currently has available career biographies of
1,170 people covering a wide spectrum of careers: from the traditional to
the newly emerging.
Because Vocational Biographies chronicles real-life school-to-career
paths, you can find a myriad of ways to use Vocational Biographies in
your career programs. For example, as a:
Librarian, you know
the power of the biography to inspire. Now you can provide career
information that goes far beyond mere facts and figures in these career
biographies.
Guidance Counselor,
you can bring your clients' career dreams and aspirations into focus
through the role models in these career biographies.
Careers Class Teacher,
you can suggest that your students can explore many aspects of a career
and have fun doing it through comprehensive and entertaining career
biographies.
Classroom Teacher,
you can explain your subject's theoretical principles by discussing the
practical applications illustrated in down-to-earth career biographies.
Employment Counselor,
you can stimulate adults to recognize job possibilities and develop an
if-they-can-do-it-I-can-do-it attitude from reading success-story career
biographies.
Curriculum Director,
you'll find an easy way to provide virtually any curriculum area with
useful career biographies.
School-to-Work
Coordinator, you can provide a unique resource tracing career
pathways in these diverse career biographies.
Career-Shadowing
Coordinator, you can follow for a day, without ever leaving your
site, workers in hundreds of careers, many of them not found locally,
but all of them in the career biographies.
Career-Mentoring
Coordinator, you can draw on the wisdom of individuals who, in
sharing their good and bad experiences, become co-mentors through the
career biographies.
Features and Benefits
Who Can Use Vocational Biographies?
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
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