5 Strategies to Empower CTE Students to Better Engage with Future Employers

One overlooked area in work-based learning programs is the focus on empowering career and technical education students to communicate their value to future employers. As students strengthen their skills to succeed in industry, they often struggle to communicate the value they can bring to an employer.

This webinar with Jason Van Nus will discuss a renovation to the traditional ‘career fair’ design. This re-composition, what Jason calls a ‘Reverse Career Fair,’ is designed to guarantee student-employer engagement. Within this design, students will naturally have to self-advocate, promote their skills, and interact meaningfully with employers and industry representatives. While leveraged in a Georgia Work-Based Learning Program, the ‘Reverse Career Fair’ is a natural and dynamic capstone for any CTE Pathway or work experience.

Aligned with ACTE’s High-Quality CTE Framework Development, learn how to evolve your CTE and WBL programs to set students up for even more success in their future workplaces.

Learning Objectives

During this webinar, the presenter will:

• Explore the disconnect between students’ skills and “selling” their value to future employers.  
• Understand how to incorporate employability skill standards into your curriculum to help students succeed in the workforce. 
• Identify opportunities to include industry partners in the WBL process to help students learn how to self-advocate.  
• Receive a ready-to-implement plan and model to recreate a “Reverse Career Fair.”