Now that you have a better sense of your interests, skills, values, learning style, and your personality, it’s time to see what opportunities are out there for you to explore. 

Opportunities will present themselves to you each and every day of your life.  Many have the potential to lead you closer to your career goal, or at least, to figuring out what that goal will be.  Now it’s up to you to see what options are out there!

“Exploring Opportunities” can mean things such as:

• Understanding how our world is changing and how those changes are impacting the job market
• Researching and pursuing areas of the job market where there is demand for new workers
• Learning about the wide range of careers available to you and what it will take to get you there
• Taking courses that will give you a better sense of the knowledge you would require in a particular career of interest
• Pursuing extra-curricular, volunteer, and paid opportunities that can help you learn more about a career and begin to build the skills required to be successful in it
• Visit job sites, college and university campuses, and educational centres to learn more about the options they have available

The links below should be helpful as you continue to explore the opportunities available to you as a Halton student.

Insert links from mypathway.ca

PLUS

Halton District School Board Pathways Planner (link to PDF)

www.myBlueprint.ca:  This site provides students with the ability to plan their high school courses and research the career and post-secondary options in Canada available to them as a result of their selections.

www.schooltocareer.ca:  This site provides you with lots of helpful information about the Specialist High Skills Major, Ontario Youth Apprenticeship, and Specialty School to Career Programs available to you as a high school student.

www.volunteerhalton.ca:  This site provides you with information about the many opportunities they are to be a volunteer in the Halton region, including those that quality for the 40-hour graduation requirement in Ontario. 

Questions about volunteer requirements:  http://hdsb.ca/ParentInfo/Pages/40-HourVolunteerRequirement.aspx

Need a volunteer form: http://mmr.hdsb.ca/Record%20of%20Community%20Involvement%20Hours.pdf

…check out your school’s website too for more information about opportunities for you to explore!