Basic Career Advice to Junior School Children

Starting young, from little seedlings.......

Grow early work life skills in junior school

Photo credit: Katerha

As part of our business values the One Stop Career Shop works with local schools to help coach work-life skills. Generally this has been at secondary school level. However recently I observed CV writing at an earlier age.

As a fun game junior school children were asked to "bid" on simple classroom tasks they wanted to undertake, such as clearing away. They all prepared a very brief CV stating why they felt they should be awarded the task they had chosen. I thought this was a really innovative way of teaching junior school children the grass roots basics of career management. It put it into a meaningful context for them and more importantly gave them a personal goal to aspire to.

I then spoke to a subset of the children at a very high level about CV writing and what career management meant.  This is what they wrote, which made me smile:) I was very impressed with their writing, interest and level of understanding, so much I have decided to share their thoughts on our blog.

" In this day and age it is so hard to get employed so your curriculum vitae (they wrote this in full not CV!) has to be better than  the rest. You need to make yours original, but do not put too much information in your CV otherwise employers will get bored and put your CV aside. 

If you  find it hard to write CVs no worries follow the link to One Stop Career Shop  - (who needs SEO or a PR guru when you have a captive audience of ten year olds!). The most important part of finding a job is to get the right job for your career history, so that in your interview employers are impressed by your skills.

Employers are looking for responsible, organised, skillful workers who will contribute to their business.

If you are looking for a first time job to start your career history first you have to find what job you want. Next you need to find out if you want to work full time or part time and what salary you are aiming for.

We hope this article has helped you reach your career potential " 

Brilliant - spot on! I think they have captured what I told them in their own unique way.