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Visiting a Workplace

Visiting a Workplace

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Purpose

Visit a workplace to experience the work environment, get insight into potential careers, and learn more about providing for yourself and your future family.

Description

As a group, visit the workplace of a professional you know. Prepare questions ahead of time. Participants could ask about educational requirements, day-to-day tasks, work-life balance, and potential salaries. Find out if employees or employers have suggestions or ideas to share that might help participants as they consider their future careers.

More Ideas

  • Workplace vision board—Invite participants to draw a picture or make a collage of their ideal future workplace and share it with the group. Encourage participants to describe what is important to them about that workplace.

  • Invite a professional—Find out which careers members of your group are interested in. Then invite one or more professionals from those fields to talk about their careers. Ask them to provide an overview of the types of jobs that are available in their field of work, the types of skills needed, the potential salaries, and the required education to be successful.

  • Outside the office—Visit a workplace that isn’t an office building. Take a field trip to a police or fire station, construction site, airport, farm, museum, television station, factory, or any other local business, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the kind of work that goes on there.

  • Job shadowing—As a group, come up with a list of people who have jobs that participants want to learn about. Invite each participant to choose someone from the list and arrange to spend a day watching that person on the job—for example, follow a doctor making her rounds, watch a teacher with his class, or look over building plans with an architect. Afterward, meet back together to share experiences and insights.

Discussion

Encourage participants to talk about what they are learning. Discussions can take place before, during, or after the activity. You could ask questions like the following:

  • Why do you think it is important to visit a workplace?

  • How does visiting a workplace help you understand how to be self-reliant and prepare for future responsibilities as parents and providers?

  • What feelings or impressions do you have about preparing for your future career?

  • How can you apply what you are learning in your life?

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