SCHOOL CAREER
CLUB GUIDE
School career clubs enable students to build fulfilling, high-impact careers.
A school career club collaborates with parents, teachers, career coaches, companies, development agencies, as well as colleges and universities, to enable young people discover and pursue their dream careers
Benefits of a Career Club
Career clubs can enable students to build fulfilling, high-impact careers through the following:
Self-discovery
Students undertake activities that
enable them to make informed decisions about their
future based on self-awareness
Networking
Connect students with alumni, industry
experts, and professionals in their fields of interest
Soft skills
Equip students with valuable soft skills
such as goal setting, time management, leadership,
confidence, teamwork, problem-solving, and
communication to give them an edge in the job market
College preparation
Assist students in preparing
for college in terms of college choice, courses, and
scholarships.
Work experience
Provide internship opportunities in
fields of interest.
Career Guidance
Provide access to career coaches to
offer tailored guidance to students.
Entrepreneurship
Introduce students to
entrepreneurship as a potential fulfilling and high-impact
career path.
Job market trends
Equip students with knowledge of
job market trends to help them be competitive and make
informed career choices.
Social responsibility
Give students opportunities to
become socially responsible citizens by engaging them
in community service projects that promote social good.
Resume building
Enable students to understand that
resume building starts early and covers both soft and
technical skills and experiences.
How to Build a Career Club
Career guidance master
Identify one teacher to be the career guidance master.
Recruit members
Communicate to students and parents that the school is introducing a career
club and invite interested students to join.
Career club leaders
Select club leaders such as the president, secretary, treasurer etc.
Club charter
the career guidance master works with the club leaders to develop a club charter
that describes the purpose, rules, and main activities of the club (see sample charter on page 5,
and edit as necessary to fulfill the needs of your school)
Meetings
The club should hold regular meetings to discuss career-related topics, plan activities,
and provide support to members.
Activities
The club should organize activities that will help members achieve the club’s purpose.
Activities could include career fairs, internships, skills workshops, guest speakers, mentorship,
coaching, and community service projects.
Collaboration
Collaborate with parents, teachers, career coaches, universities, colleges, and
development partners, to find support for career clubs.
Evaluate and improve
Collect feedback from members, tracking attendance, and assessing
the impact of the club’s activities on members’ career development. Improve the club based on
feedback.
Key Activities of a Career Club
Soft Skills Development
The club can organize training sessions to help
members develop soft skills
Mentoring/Coaching
Members can be linked with mentors or coaches to guide
and support their career development.
Internship
The club can arrange for students to be attached to companies in their
fields of interest
Guest Speakers
The club can invite guest speakers to inspire students.
Career Fairs
The club can organize career fairs to provide students with
opportunities to explore different career paths and effectively prepare for college.
Community Service
The club can participate in community service in fields of
interest to students
Sample Career Club Charter
Name of School: Vision High School
Name of Career Guidance Master: Mrs Christine Atieno
Purpose of career club: to enable students to build fulfilling, high-impact careers through
self-discovery, knowledge of job market trends, networking, skills development, college
preparation, internship, career mentorship and coaching, social responsibility, and resume
building.
Rules of career club:
- Respect: respect the opinions of others, even if you do not agree with them.
- Learning: learn from each other, and from the resources such as speakers, coaches, and online resources provided by the career club.
- Support: support each other to grow, by sharing information that is of value in
advancing careers - Personal: seek and find your own career pathways, that are in line with your purpose
and passions.
Main activities:
- Soft skills development: The club can organize training sessions to help members develop soft skills.
- Mentoring/coaching: Members can be linked with mentors or coaches to guide and support their career development.
- Internship: the club can arrange for students to be attached to companies in their fields of interest during holidays
- Guest Speakers: The club can invite guest speakers to inspire students.
- Community service: the club can participate in community service in fields of interest to students.
Signed: Career Guidance Master
Name:………………………………………………….
Signed: Club President
Name:………………………………………………….
Date of Charter: 20th April 2023
Recser Career Formula
The Recser Career Formula contained in the Career Choice Book provides three pillars for fulfilling and high-impact careers.
First, explore your passions and purpose to enable you to understand your career personality. Allow yourself to embrace the activities you enjoy and the issues you care about.
Secondly, understand the job market for your desired career. How easy is it to find a job or create a business – today and in the future – if you follow the career path you have in mind?
Thirdly, develop hard and soft skills that will empower you to excel in your preferred career path.
This pillar will also enable you to choose the right university or college.
Fulfilling and high-impact careers happen at the intersection of the three pillars.
Partner With Us
Are you an investor who believes that people drive change?
Are you interested in long-term impact in Africa through empowering young people to find fulfilling high-impact career pathways?
We invite you to partner with the Career Choice team that has invested their time and passion to build this high-impact initiative.
Ways to Partner
Career clubs in secondary schools
Career coach training across Africa
Book donations to school libraries
Career clubs in secondary schools
Beginning 2023, Recser is sponsoring secondary schools to develop career clubs to enable students to build fulfilling, high impact careers.
We have developed a career club guideline for school principals and career guidance masters to refer to.
Through career clubs, students undertake activities that enable them to make in formed decisions about their future based on self-awareness
Sponsoring one school to develop and run a successful career club for one-year costs USD 2,000 and only USD 500 annually after that. One million dollars will sponsor between 500 and 700 schools to develop career clubs. The long-term impact that will accrue from such an investment is in the order of billions of dollars because people drive change, and Africa needs lots of transformational change.
Career coach training across Africa
Our sister platform, CoachLinks, (https://coachlinks.com/ ) has over 150 certified coaches based in Africa.
We are introducing the book to the coaches to use in their coaching work, increasing and deepening the impact.
In 2024 and beyond, we will invest in training career coaches and mentors to support schools and young people in finding fulfilling and high-impact career pathways
It costs USD 1,500 to train one career coach who is able to coach >2,000 young people each year through individual and group coaching
A donation of USD one million dollars will result in >600 career coaches trained and certified, with the potential for 1,200,000 students benefiting annually. Imagine the potential long-term impact.
Africa needs approximately 12,000 career coaches/mentors, many of whom would be career guidance masters in high schools
Book donations to school libraries
Recser has so far donated >200 books to schools in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania, and intends to donate 300 more in 2023.
Donating 5 books to a school will cost USD 100, inclusive of shipping expenses
The donation process includes the introduction of the school Principal and career guidance master to the idea of career clubs
Recser Support for Career Clubs
- Recser can support your school to develop a career club.
- Recser staff will work with your school to find sponsors such as universities or development agencies that can provide sponsorship for your Career Club.
- You can speak with us, whatsapp chat, or email via;
Address
Nairobi, Kenya
Phone
+254 115 155 551
E-mail
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