Unstack the Odds: Help All Kids Access College—and Graduate!
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Joe Rottenborn
Executive Director, Mahoning Valley College Access Program (MVCAP)
18. GO TO COLLEGE: STEP 1
When it’s time to think about college, here to assist you is a step-by-step approach--developed over almost 10 years--by the Mahoning Valley College Access Program (MVCAP). Just do and/or consider items that follow during this year and you’ll be off to college after you graduate from high school!
1) Undertake a career exploration to identify matches between your strengths/interests and various fields/occupations, emphasizing preparation required and job-opportunities.
1. Begin the career exploration by identifying your many strengths and interests--then seek careers that would make use of those.
2. When you do a career exploration, determine what preparation a certain field requires--and what job opportunities exist!
3. To read a blog-post entitled “10 Hottest Careers in America,” just click this link: http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/college-solution/10-hottest-careers-in-america/2154/
4. For a pdf file of the actual report by the University of California, San Diego, click here: http://extension.ucsd.edu/about/images/careerReport.pdf
5. Perhaps the best question to ask yourself about careers is this: What job would you still love to do on a cold, dark, rainy Monday morning?
6. Note: You can view this step and the next one as an e-book at the following link: http://issuu.com/mvcap/docs/going_to_college
