Wisconsin Careers workbook helps youth prepare for future

“Prepare For Your Future,” new full-color workbook published by Wisconsin Careers, aims to help teachers and school counselors effectively guide youth in grades 6-9 through the career-planning and decision-making process.

“Too many youth have no idea where they want to go because they have no sense of their future,” says co-author Kara McCarty of Wisconsin Careers. “This workbook helps students become more directly involved in making their own career decisions and become aware of how success in school really prepares them to achieve their own career aspirations.”

Wisconsin Careers, a program within the Center on Education and Work in the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education, has provided teachers and counselors across the state with career-related curriculum resources for more than 30 years. The program offers “WISCareers” and “CareerLocker,” online information systems that allow students to explore career options indepth, build resumes and cover letters, and look into colleges and jobs that support their career goals.

“Prepare For Your Future” links directly with these first-rate information systems and includes activities that range from matching interests and values to occupations to budgeting and lifestyle planning. The workbook also connects to “Career Clusters,” a new national initiative in which thousands of occupations available across the United States are grouped into 16 clusters.

“We are proud to offer yet another high-quality tool to help youth see the relevance of their education and to explore the many ways in which they can apply their talents in the increasingly complex world of work,” says V. Scott Solberg, Wisconsin Careers director.

For more information about the handbook, which is sold in sets of 30, and other Wisconsin Careers resources, call (800) 442-4612, extension 2.