Career interests inventory | Easy reading questions for high school life skills and VPC
Resource Description
The career interests inventory for 9th to 12th grade in special education is an easy English survey you can use with students in high school as they build college and career readiness skills for the future. The print and go worksheets help students choose the career clusters that interest them, and begin thinking about subject and elective choices to help them reach their career goals for the future.
What's inside?
- Teacher information page
- 2 x student information pages in Easy English
- 13 x career preferences with a single thumbs up or down response
- 14 x career preferences based on career clusters with YES / NO responses
Who is it for?
The career interests inventory is ideal for 9th to 12thgrade special education students in high school, and young adult programs where they are beginning to plan their future. The career interests inventories help spark conversations and support students in thinking about what they like and don't like. You can use the inventories before students go on a work experience or volunteer placement.
It suits students with:
- developing reading skills
- a preference for short sentences and easy reading text
- an ability to make a choice between two options
- an interest in beginning to learn about work and working after they finish school
- no or very limited experience in a real workplace
- no training or qualifications, who are looking towards entry level jobs
When to teach this activity
You can teach the career interests inventory activity as part of a work skills unit, or as a lead in to a unit on resumes and job searching. You may prefer to use one or two surveys each week, or complete them all in several sessions as part of your career planning unit.
Career areas covered:
- Organizing jobs
- AI jobs
- High tech jobs
- Selling jobs
- Moving jobs
- Building jobs
- Money jobs
- Nature jobs
- Growing jobs
- Creating jobs
- Caring jobs
- Safety jobs
- Teaching jobs
- Service jobs