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1. Careers and Career
Paths
GWL3O

2. Learning Goals:
✦ Review your six post-secondary options
✦ Describe each of your options after high school
✦ Describe how each post-secondary option is connected
to careers that you are interested in
✦ Give examples of post-secondary options you might be
interested in pursuing (such as a specific school, or
place of work)
✦ Think, consider, and reflect on specific things you need
to do to get a career you are interested in

3. Where Will You Go
After High School?
Let’s look at the 6 options…

4. What Are Your
Options?
Further Education
✦ College
✦ Hands-on education
✦ Lecture-styled lessons
✦ University
✦ Lecture-styled lessons
✦ Path of specialization
(leads to graduate
programs)
✦ Private Training
✦ Specialized training that
you pay for
Direct to Workforce
✦ Military
✦ Training paid
✦ Combat and supportive
roles
✦ Commitment of service
✦ Apprenticing
✦ Training by a master
✦ Building skills to earn
certification
✦ Get a job –direct to
work/entrepreneurship

5. Your Careers…

6. Your Careers…
✦ Using your list of careers
that you are interested
in/would like to do:
✦ Think about and write
down what you think the
career path/education
required is for this job
✦ Discuss this in the forum
after the class

7. An Overview…

8. University
• Entry Requirements ~75+
• 3-4 year undergraduate
programs
• 2 years masters degree
• 4 years doctorate
• Higher wage-earnings for
comparable work
• Lecture styled learning
• Academically focused
• Higher tuition fees than other
options of postsecondary
education

9. College
• Entry Requirements ~60+
• 2-4 year diploma programs
• Some schools/programs allow
for entry into university with
partial credit
• Many career options
• Lecture/hands-on styled
learning
• Practical/experientially
focused
• Moderate tuition fees –lower
than university

10. Private Training
• Entry Requirements vary
• Programs vary in length
• Programs can be flexible with
training times and lengths
• Career options are focused on
technical skills and services
• Hands-on styled learning
• Practical/experientially
focused
• Moderate tuition fees –lower
than university

11. Canadian
Armed Forces
• Entry Requirements based on
physical and mental testing
• Multiple training programs
based on skill-sets –all vary in
length
• High academic scores can lead to
university training paid by CAF
• Career options are mostly
focused on technical skills or
combat/support roles
• Hands-on styled learning
• Practical/experientially focused
• Requires commitment of at least
3-4 years.

12. Apprenticing in
a Trade
• Gain apprenticeship through
application (like a job)
• Apprenticeships vary in length,
gaining hours of experience
equivalent with industry
standards
• Being an apprentice is a fulltime
job
• Career options are focused on
technical skills and services
• Hands-on styled learning
• Practical/experientially focused
• You earn an income while
working and learning

13. Direct to
Workforce /
Entrepreneur
• Start working for wages
immediately
• Wide open –it will be what
you make it (good or bad)
• Low success rate when
starting a business. -Takes a
long time to become
profitable
• Wages typically lower
• Little training required,
experience is a must

15. Think about a tree
The career you’re interested in is the “trunk” of the tree
All of the things you need to get there, such as grades,
volunteering, etc. are the branches and leaves of the tree.
What branches does your dream tree have?

16. Learning Goals:
✦ Review your six post-secondary options
✦ Describe each of your options after high school
✦ Describe how each post-secondary option is connected
to careers that you are interested in
✦ Give examples of post-secondary options you might be
interested in pursuing (such as a specific school, or
place of work)
✦ Think, consider, and reflect on specific things you need
to do to get a career you are interested in