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What are Employers Looking For?
Job Readiness

Career Decision Making
Steps to Career Preparation Success

The Steps to Career Preparation Success PowerPoint presentation is designed to help you prepare for future jobs and satisfying careers. This guide helps stress the importance of completing career assessments, studying career options and gaining knowledge about career clusters and options. Learn about the connection between your skills, interests, abilities and career options. Complete a self-discovery survey. Explore the type of work you would like to do.

Baseball – More Than A Pastime
The baseball season invokes the familiar clichés, "America's favorite pastime" and "all-American as mom and apple pie." But is there more to the sport than recreation? Young people who participated in sports activities during their high school years were more likely than nonsport participants to have volunteered.

Successful Interviewing: The Do's and Don'ts
The job interview.

Tips for successful job interviews: (1) Being enthusiastic. (2) Being likeable. People want to work with (and hire) people they like. (3) Being determined. (4) Being informed. You need to know about the company and what will be expected of you as an employee. View the attached documents for additional information.