Career Quest 2005

The Future Focus Career Quest is an activity designed to provide all Richland District One eighth graders preparing for transition to high school  important information regarding academic and career opportunities.  

Career Quest student preparation sessions and faculty orientations are a prelude to the culminating experience at the Fort Jackson Community Activity Center on February 15, 2005.  

On this date participating eighth graders will have the opportunity to engage approximately 180 business partners representing all 16 career clusters in an inviting, high-energy environment.  Additionally, invitations have been  extended to local government, military and community officials to observe the Career Quest.  Students will ask a minimum of three questions regarding the business representatives’ careers and will be awarded varying levels of incentives based on the number of successful interviews they complete.  

The Future Focus Career Quest Team members, Career and Technology Education staff, and Fort Jackson military personnel will provide the required staffing needs for this event.   

Post-event activities will include business representative and student surveys, distribution of career cluster information, and a critique of each phase of the Career Quest.  Arrangements have been made to install SCOIS.Net, a complete Internet career guidance system, in each middle school to allow students to further explore careers.

In addition to academic and career planning, a major goal of the Career Quest is to increase parental participation in the registration process for rising ninth graders.  Schools with 85% or higher parental attendance at school meetings will be recognized at a school board meeting.