CAREER IDENTITY
Students participate in mentoring, career awareness presentations, job shadowing, internships, college and industry tours, and college bridge programs.
What is Career Identity
Career identity is a structure of meanings in which students link his or her own motivations, interests and competencies with preferred career roles.
The key to finding “the right job” is to identify what college and career matches a student’s career identity. This identity is based on what students do best, what fulfills them and what they can give back through their work.
To discover career identity, students will think about current and past jobs. What do they like about them? What types of duties or projects do they enjoy most? What skills do they like using? What type of people do they like working with or helping? The answers to these questions will help students clarify their career identities.
Gear Up will help students think about ways they can make their current interests fit their career identity. Our team will help students consider what new projects they can work on, or skills that they need to learn to succeed.
COLLEGE GRADUATES WITH A BACHELOR’S DEGREE EARN ABOUT 65% MORE THAN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES, AND THESE JOBS ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE AND RETIREMENT PLANS.
HOW DOES IT WORK
The C-CREO Gear Up team works with students to focus on their imagined future. C-CREO Gear Up programs and distance technology provide youth and their families with role models that help them visualize career opportunities and pathways to accomplish their aspirations. Students’ interests, skills and talents are created through planned awareness, education and involvement activities that result in students being clear about their personal career identity.
To support students on their career journey, C-CREO Gear Up has a peer mentoring program where college students support and participate in Santa Cruz County youth activities. Career & College Success Coaches are available on each campus and at the C-CREO Hub, and students are encouraged to participate in college campus visits.
