Never before have opportunities to create a rewarding future abounded as they do today! As a successful high school student, you will now begin to combine what you haved learned about the world with what you are learning about your own abilities and interests. This is the beginning of your plan for a satisfying life after graduation.

Developmental Guidance classroom activities, taught by the guidance counselors in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 will help you with this process. You will learn about career areas that seem most promising for you and about the training and education that is necessary to enter jobs in those areas. You will assemble a tentative "post high school education and career plan," and then present that plan to your parent(s) and guidance counselor during grades 11-12.

Try to meet regularly with your counselor, pay careful attention in classes, and involve yourself in several school activities. Do not neglect to ask family members and friends what they do on their jobs and how they got into the work they do. Then use the variety of resources on this website and in Memorial's Career Resource Center to craft your ever-evolving career plan.

SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT the Wiscareers website: The Madison Metropolitan School District has contracted to gain access to this very comprehensive and helpful website. We strongly urge you to use it as the basis for your planning. We will train all ninth through twelfth graders in its use. When you sign on to Wiscareers for the very first time, you will need to supply the Memorial High School access code, and then create a personal account. This school code is "mhs-c762". Then establish your own account so that you can store your post high school search results as you go through high school. For your own account username please use the first initial of your first name followed immediately by your last name. For your own password please use your Memorial ID number.

Wiscareers is internet-based. You and your parents can access it anytime and anywhere that you have internet access.  Save your work each time, and then assemble it into your Wiscareers "e-portfolio."

HELPFUL INTERNET LINKS:

1. WISCAREERS: Our preferred college search site, taught to all MMSD students.
2. FSA:New U.S. government site with a variety of career planning devices.
3. OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK HANDBOOK:  On-line catalogue with specifics of occupations.
4. MY FUTURE.COM:  Comprehensive military career development site.
5. COLLEGEBOARD: Another fun way to explore careers from the Collegeboard.org people.
6. MAPPING YOUR FUTURE: A USA Today recommended site for career exploration.
7. AUTOMOTIVE JOBS TODAY: Great site for looking at careers in this field.
8. FINDING A PART-TIME JOB USING JOBNET: Wisconsin site for job seekers.
9. SNAGAJOB.COM: Looking for a part time job? This might work!
10. MYMAJORS.COM: Fun new site offering a new way to decide on your college major.
11. ASSOCIATION FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION: Many helpful ideas
12. WHAT CAN I DO WITH A MAJOR IN ... Exactly what it says!

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