Communicate

Communicate your vision and the steps you intend to take to achieve it. To do this, it's important to be clear yourself first. There are several ways to determine what your career visions are. Maybe you have participated in person-centered planning. This is a usually a series of meetings where you have a chance to tell people about your dreams for the future. Or maybe you have completed career interest surveys at school. Maybe you are someone who has always known what you wanted to do with your life. In any case, it's important to have some idea of the direction you plan to take and to be ready to talk about it with others. Here are a few ways you can record and present your career goals and related experience:

• Prepare a resume
• Put together a career portfolio (you can use PowerPoint, Inspiration, pictures, etc...)

Person-centered planning

Person centered planning is a student-centered planning meeting where individuals are invited to talk about their strengths, challenges and most importantly, their dreams for the future. Students invite people who they count on to help make decisions in their lives, and people they believe have their best interests at heart. These meetings usually take place away from school. The results of this kind of planning can be used to guide the group's next steps for creating access to college, employment and life in the community.