Middle School
High School
Implementation:
Classroom Based
Pillars of Student Success
Work Readiness
High Work Readiness
Financial Literacy
Minimal Financial Literacy
Entrepreneurship
Minimal Entrepreneurship
JA It's My Job (Soft Skills) will help students understand the value of professional communication and soft skills, making them more employable to future employers across multiple career clusters. Lessons will focus on social and soft skill competencies relating real-life experiences to job skills and preparing students for their future careers. Topics include communication and presentation skills, manners, listening skills, and cell phone etiquette. This program is part of the JA Work and Career Readiness Pathway. Recommended for high school but may be adapted for middle school.
Program Concepts
Cell phone behavior and function in the workplace, Character development, Career preparation, Employer expectations, Ethics, Job application, Job interview, Positive attitude, Professionalism, Making a good impression, Manners, Relationships with others, Resume, Self-motivation, Soft, interpersonal, or transferable skills, Workplace behavior and productivity, Workplace communication
Skills Students Learn
- Active listening
- Analyzing and applying information
- Collaboration
- Critical observation
- Decision-making
- Demonstrating soft skills in a mock interview
- Evaluating alternatives
- Examine forms
- Oral and written communication
- Presenting information
- Role-playing
- Self-evaluation
- Working in teams
- Weighing consequences of personal behavior