WE'RE BACK!!! Career Services Newsletter 1.23.19

Jennifer Kennedy
Jan 23, 2019
3 min read

WE'RE BACK! After a great semester of Career Exploration, Winter Break and Exams, Career Services is back just in time to wish our iMeck Family a Happy New Semester. Just as before we will continue our journey through the rest of this school year with great work-based learning opportunities and experiences,that will be announced and chronicled right here on our weekly Newsletter.

This week we want to encourage you start this semseter right. Check out this article about starting the semester out right, then read below to see what you missed and whats coming up next.

Upcoming Events

Jan 23rd-Senior Status Check

Jan 28th- iGOALS Series: Information Technology

Jan 30th- ASVAB Interpretations

FEBRUARY- CTE Month and Naviance Training

Feb 1st and 6th- CTE Trivia

Feb 4th- iGOALS Series: Law Pulic Safety and Safety, Corrections and Security

Feb 7th-Senior Status Check

For more dates visit our website and sign up for ALL Career Services Activities at bit.ly/iSiGNUP or by clicking the buttons below:

February is CTE Month

Every February, the CTE community celebrates CTE Month® to raise awareness of the role that CTE has in readying our students for careers and college. ... Led by a variety of CTE groups and spearheaded by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), the month is organized around a different theme each year.

Throughout the month the iMeck Leadership Team will make our way to your homerooms to train all iMeck students on Naviance and to begin Career Action Plans and Portfolio's.

Each grade level will participate in the following activities:

Grade Level Activities:

ALL iMeck Students- Resume Building

9th- Strength Explorers (Pathways)

10th- Personality Assessment

11th-Super Match College Search and Identify Post-Seconday Path

Other CTE Month Activities Include:

CTE Month Activities

Feb 1st and 6th- CTE Trivia

Feb 4th- iGOALS Series: Law Pulic Safety and Safety, Corrections and Security

Feb 7th-Senior Status Check

Feb 11th- iGOALS Series: Manufacturin

Feb 15th- iGOALS Series: Finance

Feb 18th- iGOALS Series: Human Service

Feb 19th- Ritz Carlton and Johnson and Wales Fieldtrip

Feb 23rd- CTE Fair

Mapping Out Your Future with Naviance

Another great way to start your semester off is to start planning with Naviance. Students can simply access Naviance though the Clever App on NC Ed Cloud.

Career and College Promise

Did you know? That students can be licensed in a prior to graduating High School. Career and College Promise (CCP) gives North Carolina high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to get a "jump start" and earn college credit toward a two-year or four-year degree while still in high school. Students are dually enrolled in their high school and at Central Piedmont Community College, allowing them to receive both high school and college credit for courses taken through the program. Best of all, CCP classes are tuition-free during the fall, spring and summer semesters. (Non-CMS students are responsible for student fees and insurance fees).

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