On The Job

Polish Your Personal Brand

Learn about the role of mentors and role models, examine the importance of networking, and explore how to receive constructive feedback.

Choosing What’s in the Group’s Best Interest

Learn that groups can accomplish goals that individuals working alone cannot and that group members have to put the group’s needs ahead of their own immediate wants.

Know Your Aspirations

Students are given the opportunity to brainstorm their aspirations, then they focus on one particular aspiration and make it a specific goal, identify steps toward that goal, and devise ways to overcome potential obstacles.

Preparing for Informational Interviews

Informational Interviews

Explore Multiple Paths

Learn how to set career goals and overcome obstacles. Understand that there may be more than one path to reaching a goal.

Setting Up Informational Interviews

You want to conduct an informational interview. Get tips for finding and contacting people in your field of interest. Then practice keeping track of your contacts, setting up meetings, and responding appropriately when your contact says "yes" (or "no").

Match Strengths and Interests to Careers

How does your personality match up with jobs and career opportunities in different industries? Learn about a personality test that can help you decide what type of job would suit you best.

Collecting Evidence of Transferable Skills

You want to conduct an informational interview. How do you get started? Get tips for finding and contacting people in your field of interest. Then practice keeping track of your contacts, setting up meetings, and responding appropriately when your contact

Explore Career Speaker Videos

Explore the various career clusters to watch a video(s) to learn more about a career.

Active Listening

Learn the difference between active and passive listening, and practice active listening strategies.

What is Collaboration?

Tips for Handling Conflict

Explore 10 key tips for successful conflict resolution. Then you're in charge as you decide whether individuals are handling conflicts well or poorly.

Win-Win Conflict Resolution

When two people have opposing interests, they are in conflict. But, it's often possible for both people to win! Learn how interest-based conflict resolution works—and why it's often the best way to resolve differences in the workplace.

Expert Guidance: Conflict Management

What's the best way to handle workplace conflicts? The answer isn't always obvious! Get hand-on experience in conflict resolution as you play this scenario-based game.

Understanding Job Postings

Most job listings give you a lot of information in a small package. And every job listing looks a little different. Get the information you need about what to look for in each of seven different areas.

Top Ten Interview Questions

Top 10 interview questions to prepare for your next interview.

Knowing Yourself

Learn the importance of self-knowledge and the role that metacognition can play in learning.

Interview Etiquette

The first 30 seconds of a job interview can make or break your chances of getting the job, so it's important to get things right. Learn how to prepare for your interview, present yourself when you walk in, and answer questions appropriately.

Preparing for a Winning Interview

It takes more than a positive attitude to ace a job interview. It takes preparation and practice! Follow these nine tips, and you're sure to succeed.

Introduction to Job Search Tools

There are hundreds of job search sites online—not to mention newspapers and want ads. How do you choose the best job search tools? How do you use them?

Dressing for Interviews

When you dress for interviews, you're making a statement about yourself. You're also showing potential employers that you understand their workplace culture. Learn about three different ways of dressing for an interview.

Great Job or Scam?

Want an entry-level job that pays more than $100,000? Sounds great! But if you find one, it's probably a scam. Learn how to tell great opportunities from fakes—and how to protect your information from online pirates.

Understanding Interviewing

Congratulations: You got the job interview! If you're a little nervous, you're not alone. But, you don't have to be. In this activity, learn how interviews work, and discover how you can actually benefit from the job interview process.

Make the Match

How do you know which job is right for you? Challenge yourself to make the right match for three very different job seekers in this interactive game. As you play, discover some key factors to consider when choosing among job offers.

Crafting Your Resume

Learn how to recognize key features of a resume and explore resume formatting options. 

Digital Ethics

Learn the difference between safe and unsafe behavior online, and discover personal branding and its importance.

How to Develop a Growth Mindset

It takes time to develop a growth mindset, but it's worth the effort. Explore tips and examples to help you overcome fixed ideas and allow you to grow, learn, and overcome challenges.

Strategic Planning Decision Making

Some decisions are larger than others, like those related to the overall direction of a company or organization. These decisions require a different process and inputs, including what competitors are doing as well as what potential customers might want.

What is the Gig Economy?

Learn about the growing gig economy, and discover how many people are earning a part-time or full-time income on their own terms. Could increased access to technology and opportunities make gigs more available to you?

Problems as Mysteries

You are presented with a problem, learn how to view it as an opportunity, explore the root cause by looking for patterns and trends, and then consider an information-based solution based on that cause.

What is a Growth Mindset?

Growth mindset is a way of thinking that can help you fulfill your potential. Learn about growth mindset and how to identify it in yourself and others.

Decision Making

When decisions are hard to make, you'll want to try one of these helpful decision-making tools. Learn about the JA, PACED, and Weighted Decision-Making Tools and when to use each one.

Gigs are Everywhere

Think there are only a few kinds of gig work available? Think again! There are gig opportunities in every career cluster. Discover the amazing breadth of gigs you can choose from depending on your interests, time, skills, and resources.

Digital Literacy

Learn criteria for being digitally literate. What digital literacy skills do I have and new skills might I want to gain?

Myth of Multitasking

Learn the importance of focused attention and the potential downfalls of multitasking. Avoid distractions, and use single-tasking to focus.

Choices and Consequences

Learn that all choices have consequences, that decisions made now may affect future opportunities, and that there are multiple paths to success. It’s never too late to change direction.

Commit to Goals

Learn the importance of committing to a goal as well as how to overcome obstacles to achieve a career goal.

Is Gig Work Right for You?

Gig workers work as independent contractors. They may work for companies, nonprofits, or individuals. Gig work offers a lot of advantages, but it's not right for everyone. In this activity, you'll decide whether you have a gig-friendly life.

Using Digital Tools

Learn the importance of choosing the right digital tool for a job or task.

Working Memory

Learn that writing things down is the best way to encode them into your memory and that mnemonic devices are tools to help store information in memory.

Identify Creative Solutions

Learn that there are different ways to solve problems and that considering problems from a new perspective can help them come up with creative solutions.