Career Mentors

Career mentors help you learn about professional and career opportunities.

Career mentors share information and answer questions about their profession, give tours of their work sites, provide job shadowing opportunities and help you plan for achieving your career related goals.

Take advantage of school programs that encourage adults from your community to share their experiences and give you a first-hand impression of what their jobs are like.

Think you want to be a computer technician? Look for an opportunity to "shadow" a computer technician through a day at work. Talk with computer technicians and find out what they do, how they got their jobs, what their schooling was, and what they like and dislike about their work.

Each kind of career may have specialized educational requirements, skills, standards of dress and behavior, advancement tracks, qualifying licensing or certifications, and an associated knowledge base. The elements of each career path are constatly changing. Career mentors can help explain to young people the changes that are taking place in the work environment based on the mentors' experience in a particular field.

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