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A Game Plan For Work Module Objectives:

- Students will identify their career goals.
- Students will recognize how education can help them achieve their goals.
- Students will identify the steps to reaching their career goals.
- Students will recognize the importance of present short-term employment to achieving their long-term career goals.
- Students will revisit their strengths and identify their interests.
- Students will identify the process of finding a job.
- Students will identify the characteristics of their ideal jobs.
- Students will use the Yellow Pages to determine that they are a good job search resource.
- Students will use newspaper ads to conduct a job search.
- Students will learn to use the Internet as a source of job and career information.
- Students will understand what networking means.
- Students will identify the right way and the right time to network.
- Students will recognize that the people they know can help them to network.
- Students will identify the experiences and job skills they possess that will help them find jobs.
- Students will analyze the skills they identified to find those appropriate for their resumes.
- Students will learn what to include in their resumes.
- Students will learn what a resume should look like.
- Students will recognize the importance of securing good references and identify potential references.
- Students will understand how to determine what employers might want to learn from references.
- Students will learn to prepare potential references for telephone calls or other inquiries from potential employers.
- Students will recognize why cover letters are important, and identify the parts of a cover letter.
- Students will write a cover letter for a job of their choice.