Children Unlock Treasure Chest Guide
Guide to Career Exploration

Children Unlock Treasure Chest, Guide to Career Exploration is a step — by — step guide to explore careers. Use the Unlock the Treasure Chest for Children. Guide to Career Exploration to pinpoint your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values. Discover who you really are and understand your likes, dislikes, and interests. Match your likes and interests to careers. Succeed in planning a career.

The Children Unlock Treasure Chest, Guide to Career Exploration has 3 sections:

• Guide to Exploring Careers
• Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children
• Visual Aids or Screenshots from the Unlock the Treasure Chest Guidebook

Guide to Exploring Careers

The Children Unlock Treasure Chest, Guide to Career Exploration is for kids and children who need a manual that will guide them through the steps of exploring careers. The topics included in the Children Unlock Treasure Chest Guide are:

• Learning about Yourself
• Find the Secret Code
• Understand the Secret Code – The Holland Code
• Find Your Career Group
• Identify Careers Using My Rainbow Career Finder
  
• Explore Careers Using Career Web Sites and Videos
  
• Explore Career Using Career Books

Learning about Yourself

Learning about Yourself involves AWARENESS. AWARENESS unlocks the door to the unknown. AWARENESS means pinpointing your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values. AWARENESS helps you:

• UNCOVER the mystery.
• DISCOVER who you really are.
• KNOW your likes, dislikes, or interests.

Learning about Yourself is a journey.

On Day One:

• Meet your Guide.
• Get your Career Map.
• Begin your journey to find the Treasure Chest.

On Day Three, use career test to find the HOLLAND CODES.

On Day Seven use your HOLLAND CODES to find careers that interest you.

Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children

Children Unlock Treasure Chest, Internet Resources for Teachers, Counselors, Parents, Adults, Kids and Children has information on career exploration web sites and books.

On Day Eight, you look at Exploring Careers Web Sites.

Here are the different types of Children Unlock Treasure Chest, EXPLORING CAREERS WEB SITES –

• Curriculum
• Career Information
• Career Groups – Science
• Specific Careers — Science

Here are two websites from the My Rainbow Finder.

CAREER KID INFORMATION

RESOURCE ONE: Career Ship

Career Ship is a free online career teen exploration tool for middle and high school students.

Career Ship uses HOLLAND CODES and the O*NET Career Exploration Tools.

For each career, Career Ship provides the following information:

• Tasks
• Wages
• Career outlook
• Interests
• Education
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Similar careers

Career Ship is a product a public—service web site providing career, college, financial aid, and financial literacy information and services.

SPECIFIC Career Kid Website — SCIENCE

RESOURCE SIXTEEN: Engineering – The Stealth Profession

Engineering – The Stealth Profession has a lot of career kid information about engineers –

• Types of Engineers
• True Stories
• Salaries
• Education Required
• Work Schedules
• Equipment Used
  

The Visual Aids or Screenshots from the Unlock the Treasure Chest Guidebook is an additional bonus for teachers, counselors, and parents. These screenshots are excellent for group presentations. The screenshots present the concepts covered in the Guidebook. With each purchase, you will receive Visual Aids.

The Unlock the Treasure Chest for Children. Guide to Career Exploration is a toolkit for teachers, counselors, or parents preparing kids and children for exploring careers.

Benefits

The Children Unlock Treasure Chest Guide to Career Exploration book is a visual learning technique that is a fast, quick, and easy way to introduce careers and Holland Codes.

The benefits of the Guide to Career Exploration are -

• Eye appealing - Is a colorful presentation
• Easy to use - Facilitates learning through the use of graphics
• Comprehensive - Shows the relationships between careers, interests, and Holland Codes
• Easy to understand - Simplifies the understanding of career exploration and the Holland Codes

As a visual learning technique, the Children Unlock Treasure Chest helps children, youth, and adults see and categorize career concepts, patterns, and relationships.

The Guide to Career Exploration clarifies thoughts, integrates new knowledge, and promotes critical thinking. New concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood.

The Guide to Career Exploration organizes and analyzes information. Children -

• See how Holland Codes are connected to careers
• Realize how careers can be grouped and organized

The Children Unlock Treasure Chest also improves –

• Attention Span and Concentration: holds audience's attention and helps people absorb information
• Memory Skills and Understanding: improves ability to absorb information
• Speed of Learning: reduces the time it takes to complete career tests.

Features of Children Unlock Treasure Chest

The Unlock Your Treasure Chest is used to:

• Provide career exploration classroom activities for middle school students, children, and kids
• Provide career assessment tests for middle school students, children, and kids
• Identify Steps in the Career Planning Process
• Identify Holland Codes
• Match careers to Holland Codes career groups
• Explore careers and career web sites

The Career Groups are -

Read about the My Rainbow Career Finder.