BUSINESS RESOURCES
Create the Ultimate Experience
The Basics – Talk The Right Talk
The following topics are a good starting point for conversation about your business/industry. Remember, your audience has limited or no work experience, so avoid using industry jargon unfamiliar to your audience’s age group.
- Current job overview
- Required postsecondary experience
- Necessary interests, skills, and values
- Career field outlook
- Upward Mobility
- Technologies used
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Staying up-to-date in your field and professional development
- Current job openings
- Entry level positions
- Approximate salaries
- Words of wisdom
Make These Engaging – It’s a Must!
Learning is most effective when it is hands-on and visual. Incorporate a hands-on activity during the visit for a lasting, meaningful experience. Below are strategies that ASF presenters have used to successfully activate student learning:
- Digital presentations
- Tours
- Work product samples
- Instruments, artifacts, & tools of the trade
- Industry problem-solving exercises
- Modeling a procedure
- Printed materials
- Funny stories
- Teamwork & work place simulations and role playing (ASF can assist in developing short activity)
- Rotations with different professionals/speed interviewing