C-TEC’s Career Development System provides educational services to 10 public school districts in Licking County. The goal of the program is to help Licking County students, parents, and educators learn about career pathways, career clusters, and educational and career options. Developing skills in decision making and goal setting, plus work habits and attitudes is a focus. These skills are developed through career awareness, exploration, and preparation activities including classroom integration activities.

 

Career Development Pathways

Career Development is based on the belief that opportunities should be made available to all students from the early years in their family life, through their education and training, into the world of work, and on to retirement. Seven Career Clusters organize high school course offerings booklets and various career development activities throughout the school year. Career Development helps relate classroom learning to skills needed for employment and provides students with career-related skills to survive in the world of work.

Career Development Planning

In addition, career development provides students with support and assistance in establishing academic and career goals plus educational plans through the Individual Academic and Career Plan (IACP). This includes initiating an IACP document by students prior to the ninth grade with opportunities to review, validate, and revise the document annually in grades 9-12 as part of the process. C-TEC provides students with a computerized career planning system so students can update and validate their IACP away from school.

Career Development Lesson Plans

C-TEC’s K-12 Career Development System provides a variety of resources that support the Ohio Academic Content Standards. The following K-8 teacher developed career-infused lesson plans connect to Career Development Key Topics and Ohio's Academic Contect Standards.

Other Resources

Licking County's Career Development Program organizes many annual events around the seven Career Clusters.  Below are examples of these events that all Licking County students participate.

8th Grade Experience

Freshman Career Fair (PDF)
Sophomore Hands-On (PDF)

Junior and Senior Job/Career EXPO (PDF)