Work and Career Readiness
Career Exploration
Pipeline AZ (Quiz): Quickly see how your passions and skills match with available career pathways, then connect with everything you need to get there.
JA Inspire (Interactive Experience): Explore careers, network with Arizona employers, and attend panel discussions in JA’s premier virtual career exploration fair!
JA STEMBOT (Activity): Learn about STEM careers and practice STEM skills while solving puzzles and playing games.
JA Career Speaker Series (Videos): Learn about different skills, careers, businesses, and opportunities from real-world professionals! Thank you to everyone who has participated in this project.
Explore High-Demand STEM Careers (Activity): Learn about STEM careers and ways to prepare for these careers while still in school.
Research Your Dream Job! (Reading): Are you curious about the salary, demand, and education requirements of the careers you are interested in? Explore the answers here!
JA Access Your Future (also available on iTunes and Google Play): An app that helps break down cost of goals and dreams into real and usable numbers.
JA Self-Knowledge Treasure Hunt (Reading): Skills, interests, and values help you focus in on what kids of jobs and careers you might like. Do you know yours?
JA My Way (Interactive Online Activities): Keep your career goals on track through learning about your personality, career options, resumes saving for college, and more!
JA Career Decisions (Presentation): Create a career plan based upon your interests and talents and learn how to set SMART goals to achieve your plan.
Career Preparation
JA Inspire (Interactive Experience): Explore careers, network with Arizona employers, and attend panel discussions in JA’s premier virtual career exploration fair!
JA Getting to Know Excel (Interactive Tutorial): Learn how to use Excel.
JA Getting to Know PowerPoint (Interactive Tutorial): Learn how to use PowerPoint.
JA Getting to Know Word (Interactive Tutorial): Learn how to use Word.
Hour of Code (Website): Use this resource to get to know about coding. A skill becoming higher in demand every day!
Girl’s Hope Boy’s Hope (Website): GHBH scholars are supported from adolescence through college graduation and beyond, offering a holistic spectrum of programming that evolves with the age and needs of youth.
JA Grades Count! (Find the accompanying worksheet here) (Interactive Lesson): Do your grades really matter? Explore the consequences of grades and other factors that can affect college options and scholarships.
JA My Way (Interactive Online Activities): Keep your career goals on track through learning about your personality, career options, resumes saving for college, and more!
JA Work Values (Presentation): Explore how to get and keep a job.
JA How to Create an Elevator Pitch (Activity): How would you pitch yourself to a potential employer? Create and learn how to use an elevator pitch.
A Quick Guide to Business Etiquette Around the World (Reading): Use this cultural guide to make smart etiquette decisions.
College tips
Interpreting a Financial Aid Award Letter (Find the accompanying worksheet here) (Reading and Activity): Learn how to interpret a financial aid award letter and negotiate for more aid.
Applying for Financial Aid with FAFSA (Find the accompanying worksheet here) (Reading and Online Activity): Learn how to complete the free application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form to apply for aid.
Community FAFSA Playbook (Reading): A full guide of the ins and outs of FASFA.
ASU – First Star Academy (Website): The First Star – Arizona State University Academy is a free, comprehensive four-year college access program that aims to provide foster youth the academic support, enrichment, and resources needed to enroll and succeed in college.
JA Money Jar Podcast: College Tips – How to Pay for Your Degree (Podcast): Mindy and Rishika spoke with The College Investor expert, Robert Farrington, about what options are out there when students consider how to pay for college.
JA Money Jar Podcast: What Do Colleges Look At? (Podcast): They speak with a college admissions coach about what students can do to plan for a successful college application process.
JA Money Jar Podcast: Surviving and Thriving While Changing College Majors (Podcast): One-third of students change their career majors in college. Learn from a successful entrepreneur who went from engineering to being a trumpeter in the San Francisco Symphony.
JA $ave: It is Never Too Early to Decide on a College (Reading): Let’s explore how to choose a college.
JA Inspire (Interactive Experience): Explore careers, network with Arizona employers, and attend panel discussions in JA’s premier virtual career exploration fair!
Scholarship opportunities (Online Resource): Check out some scholarship opportunities from Scholarship America.
GCU Fostering Futures Scholarship (Scholarship): Understand the latest with GCU’s Foster Care education scholarship.
Trade & Workforce Information
JA Inspire (Interactive Experience): Explore careers, network with Arizona employers, and attend panel discussions in JA’s premier virtual career exploration fair!
How to Get into Trades! (Website): Understand what it takes to get into various trades from Indeed.
High Growth Trades (Reading): This article goes over the highest paying trades in 2021 and the steps needed to go into that career path.
Explore Occupations and Compare Their Growth Rates, Salaries, and Educational Requirements (Interactive Tool): Research and learn about the careers that interest you.
MCC Career & Technical Education Programs (Website): Explore your possibilities with a Career and Technical Education (CTE) program at MCC.
East Valley institute of Technology (Website): Learn more about getting ready for a future career through EVIT.
Real Estate (Website): Find out more about the real estate career field and the requirements to get started.
JA Speaker Series (Videos): Learn about different skills, careers, businesses, and opportunities from real-world professionals! Thank you to everyone who has participated in this project.
JA The Money Jar Podcast: Cool Trades- Sheet Metal worker (Podcast): Some broad career categories within trade industries are mechanical trades, industrial trades, medical trades, and building trades.
JA Money Jar Podcast: Cool Trades- Construction Worker (Podcast): A member of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) and started her career as a construction worker and laborer when she was in her early 30s.