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Course Descriptions:
JA Career Success equips students with the tools and skills required to earn and keep a job in high-growth career industries. JA Career Success is a series of six lessons. The average time for each lesson is 60 minutes.
This new program covers key topics, such as:
- 4Cs: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity
- Strong soft skills
- Work priorities
- STEM and other high-growth industries
- Personal-brand and job-hunting tools—resumes, cover letters, interviews, and digital profiles
JA It's My Business
If entrepreneurship is behind a country’s economic success, then what is behind entrepreneurship itself? Can one learn to think and act like an entrepreneur? Most definitely. This program teaches students the four key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs: believing in themselves; filling a need; knowing their customer and product; and being creative and innovative.
JA It’s My Business will provide an engaging, academically enriching, and experiential learning sessions in entrepreneurship. The students will be able to:
- Define entrepreneurship
- Identify four key entrepreneurial characteristics
- Describe how entrepreneurs fill a market need
- Discuss the role of market research in determining market need and competitive advantage
- Recognize how being creative and innovative are necessary entrepreneurial skills for starting a business
- Develop business plans based on a set criteria
Following participation in the program, students will be able to apply their entrepreneurship skills to education, career, and service pursuits.
JA Our City
City life comes into sharp context through Our City, a programme designed to inspire student exploration of the relationship between the jobs people perform, the skills they need to perform these jobs, and the impact their work has on a city’s well-being.
The Goals are:
- Help students discover a variety of occupations
- Help students identify what types of businesses can be found in a typical city
- Develop the students’ understanding of how workers apply their skills to their jobs
- Heighten the students’ awareness of the contributions of businesses to a city
JA Food R Us
To educate students on the following topics in relation to food:
- Food sources and how to ensure sustainability in supply chain;
- Making the right food choices and impact to health, lifestyle and environment
- Problems with food in the global market – food wastage and imbalance in food supply
- Possible careers to explore in the food industry
JA Career Success equips students with the tools and skills required to earn and keep a job in high-growth career industries. JA Career Success is a series of six lessons. The average time for each lesson is 60 minutes.
This new program covers key topics, such as:
- 4Cs: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity
- Strong soft skills
- Work priorities
- STEM and other high-growth industries
- Personal-brand and job-hunting tools—resumes, cover letters, interviews, and digital profiles
JA It's My Business
If entrepreneurship is behind a country’s economic success, then what is behind entrepreneurship itself? Can one learn to think and act like an entrepreneur? Most definitely. This program teaches students the four key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs: believing in themselves; filling a need; knowing their customer and product; and being creative and innovative.
JA It’s My Business will provide an engaging, academically enriching, and experiential learning sessions in entrepreneurship. The students will be able to:
- Define entrepreneurship
- Identify four key entrepreneurial characteristics
- Describe how entrepreneurs fill a market need
- Discuss the role of market research in determining market need and competitive advantage
- Recognize how being creative and innovative are necessary entrepreneurial skills for starting a business
- Develop business plans based on a set criteria
Following participation in the program, students will be able to apply their entrepreneurship skills to education, career, and service pursuits.
JA Our City
City life comes into sharp context through Our City, a programme designed to inspire student exploration of the relationship between the jobs people perform, the skills they need to perform these jobs, and the impact their work has on a city’s well-being.
The Goals are:
- Help students discover a variety of occupations
- Help students identify what types of businesses can be found in a typical city
- Develop the students’ understanding of how workers apply their skills to their jobs
- Heighten the students’ awareness of the contributions of businesses to a city
JA Food R Us
To educate students on the following topics in relation to food:
- Food sources and how to ensure sustainability in supply chain;
- Making the right food choices and impact to health, lifestyle and environment
- Problems with food in the global market – food wastage and imbalance in food supply
- Possible careers to explore in the food industry
LET THEIR SUCCESS BE YOUR INSPIRATION​
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