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Grade 12 – Senior Year

Career Readiness

The sequel to Career Exploration: build a complete application package, interview with confidence, understand offers and contracts, and succeed in your first year of work.
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About Course

Career Readiness is the sequel to Career Exploration and Planning. Where that course
helped you work out what you might do, this one is about getting the next step — this year — and doing well
once you have it.

It assumes the foundations from Career Exploration and goes further on every topic: how employers
actually screen applications, how to build documents that survive that screening, how to interview at
depth, what offers and contracts really mean, and how to handle the first ninety days and the years
after.

What you will study

  • Unit 1 — From Plan to Target: this year’s specific target, reading job advertisements,
    and building an evidence bank.
  • Unit 2 — How Employers Screen: the hiring process from the employer’s side, applicant
    tracking systems, and assessments and checks.
  • Unit 3 — The Application Package: a targeted résumé, achievement statements, cover
    letters and forms, references, portfolio and professional profile.
  • Unit 4 — Interviewing in Depth: formats, behavioural questions and a story bank,
    difficult moments, and recorded practice.
  • Unit 5 — Offers, Contracts and Starting Well: comparing and negotiating offers,
    contracts and rights for young workers, and a ninety-day plan.
  • Unit 6 — Performing and Progressing: professionalism in practice, feedback and
    conflict, and progression in your first years.

How the course works

The activities are your real documents. By the end of the course you will have a target, an
evidence bank, a targeted résumé, a cover letter, a reference plan, a story bank, recorded interview
practice and a ninety-day plan — a complete application package. Each unit includes teaching
lessons, interactive activities and a quiz marked automatically. A mid-course assessment follows Unit 3 and
a final assessment closes the course.

A note on law and rights

Where the course discusses employment law, it uses the United States as its example and describes rules
in general terms. Laws vary by state and change over time; the course is not legal advice, and it points
students to official sources and to a trusted adult when something seems wrong.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Turn a career plan into a specific target and an evidence bank
  • Understand how employers screen applications, from software to background checks
  • Build a complete, tailored application package
  • Interview confidently with a prepared story bank and practice
  • Evaluate offers, understand contracts and rights, and plan your first ninety days

Requirements

  • Career Exploration and Planning (Grade 10). This course builds directly on it and does not repeat its foundations.

Audience

  • Grade 12 students entering work, apprenticeships or training, or taking part-time work alongside further study.

Course Content

Getting Started
<p>How this course works, what you will learn, and how you are assessed.</p>

  • Course Overview and Learning Objectives

Unit 1: From Plan to Target
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>Career Exploration helped you work out what you might do. This course is about doing the next step of it — this year.</strong></p> <p>That next step might be a full-time job, an apprenticeship, a place on a training programme, or a part-time job alongside further study. <strong>Whatever it is, the work of getting it is the same</strong>: know exactly what you are aiming for, understand what the other side is looking for, and be able to prove you have it.</p> <p><strong>This unit sets up everything that follows.</strong> By the end of it you will have a specific target, a method for reading any job advertisement, and an <strong>evidence bank</strong> — the stock of examples every later application, cover letter and interview answer will draw on.</p> <p><em>This course builds on Career Exploration and Planning. Where it assumes something from that course, it says which lesson to revisit.</em></p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 1 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Turn a long-term career plan into a specific target for the next twelve months</li> <li>Read a job advertisement for what it actually requires, and spot warning signs</li> <li>Build an evidence bank of achievements and examples to use in every application</li> </ul>

Unit 2: How Employers Screen
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>Most job-seeking advice is written from the applicant's side. This unit looks from the other side of the desk.</strong></p> <p><strong>Understanding how employers actually screen candidates changes how you apply.</strong> Who reads your application, how long they spend on it, what software sorts it, and what tests and checks come afterward all affect what a good application looks like.</p> <p><strong>It also removes some of the mystery</strong> — and some of the myths — that make applying feel random.</p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 2 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Describe the stages of a typical hiring process and who is involved</li> <li>Explain how applicant tracking systems work and prepare applications that survive them</li> <li>Prepare for common assessments, background checks and reference checks</li> </ul>

Unit 3: The Application Package
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>This unit produces the application package</strong> the course promises: <strong>a targeted résumé, a cover letter, prepared references, and — where your field needs them — a portfolio and professional profile.</strong></p> <p><strong>Career Exploration Lesson 5.2 covered what a résumé and cover letter are.</strong> This unit is about making ones that work: <strong>tailored to a specific role, written as achievements rather than duties, and built to survive both the quick screen and the careful read</strong> described in Unit 2.</p> <p><strong>The activities in this unit are your real documents.</strong> By the end of it, you should be able to apply for your target role the same day an advertisement appears.</p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 3 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Choose a résumé format and structure it for a specific role</li> <li>Write achievement statements that show results</li> <li>Write a tailored cover letter and complete application forms well</li> <li>Prepare references, and build a portfolio and professional profile where relevant</li> </ul>

Unit 4: Interviewing in Depth
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>Career Exploration Lesson 5.3 covered the basics of interviews: preparation, common questions and follow-up.</strong> This unit goes further, into the parts that make the difference between a reasonable interview and a strong one.</p> <p><strong>Three things matter most.</strong> Knowing the <strong>format</strong> you are walking into. Having a <strong>bank of prepared stories</strong> that answer almost any behavioural question. And <strong>practising aloud, with feedback</strong>, until the answers come naturally rather than rehearsed.</p> <p><strong>The unit also covers difficult moments</strong> — questions you should not be asked, questions about pay, nerves, and rejection — because how you handle them is part of what the interviewer sees.</p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 4 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Prepare for different interview formats, including video and group assessments</li> <li>Build a story bank and answer behavioural and situational questions using STAR</li> <li>Handle difficult questions, pay discussions and requests for accommodation</li> <li>Practise with feedback, follow up well, and learn from rejection</li> </ul>

Unit 5: Offers, Contracts and Starting Well
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>An offer is not the finish line. It is the start of a set of decisions</strong> — whether to accept, what to ask for, what you are agreeing to, and how to make the first months go well.</p> <p><strong>Financial Literacy covered payslips, benefits and tax. Career Exploration covered starting a new role and basic rights at work.</strong> This unit builds on both: <strong>comparing offers on their real value</strong>, <strong>reading what you sign</strong>, <strong>knowing the specific rules that protect young and new workers</strong>, and <strong>planning your first ninety days on paper.</strong></p> <p><em>This unit describes US rules in general terms. Employment law varies by state and changes over time. It is not legal advice — check current rules with official sources, and ask for help when something seems wrong.</em></p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 5 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Compare offers on total value and negotiate respectfully</li> <li>Read an offer letter and contract, and recognise key clauses</li> <li>Explain protections for young and new workers and where to get help</li> <li>Write and use a ninety-day plan for a new role</li> </ul>

Unit 6: Performing and Progressing
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>Getting the job is the start. Doing it well — and moving on from it well — is what builds a career.</strong></p> <p><strong>Career Exploration covered what employers want and how to communicate at work.</strong> This unit applies those ideas to the situations that actually arise in a first job: <strong>workplace norms you have to read rather than be told</strong>, <strong>feedback you did not want</strong>, <strong>conflict with colleagues, customers or managers</strong>, and <strong>how to progress</strong> — to more hours, more responsibility, better pay, or the next role.</p> <p><strong>Leadership & Professional Development</strong>, the elective, covers leading others and advanced professional skills. <strong>This unit concentrates on succeeding in your own role.</strong></p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 6 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Apply professional norms in person, online and in hybrid work</li> <li>Receive and give feedback, and handle conflict constructively</li> <li>Recognise harassment and know how to report it</li> <li>Plan for performance, progression and your first years of work</li> </ul>

Course Completion
<p>Final assessment and full-course review.</p>

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  • September 30, 2026
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