Shape your Path

“Shape your Path” is aimed at helping youth who are still deciding what to do after high school. This forum will match their personal aptitudes and interests with different career options and begin mapping their plan for their next steps. Through the webinars, they will learn to identify their skills, volunteering, and mentorship opportunities in their chosen field of interest, as well as begin researching and preparing for post-secondary programs to support them.

Below you can find archived webinars and learning resources.

WEBINARS

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Gap Years: What to do when you need a break from being a student.

Gap Years are perfect for those who are feeling burnt out, unsure of what they want to study, want to get some real life experience (and earn some cash) or just need a recharge before jumping back into school or the next phase of “adulthood.” In this workshop we will explore the pros and cons of taking a gap year, tips for how to make this time purposeful instead of “wasting” it, what it means for future university or college, and how to talk to your parents about this beneficial pathway.

Exploring the Trades

Shannon shares her life journey and different career paths, including a college diploma, pre-apprenticeship, and trades school to help educate youth on the available pathways. Shannon believes that education is power, and by providing youth with more options, we are empowering them to be able to make better lifelong decisions.

Resume and Career Coaching

The process of finding a new job is both an art and a science and this workshop is designed to help develop the skills you need in today’s labour market. It will offer you tools to map out the path from identifying your passion to landing a new position. We will explore the ideas of personal branding and how best to present ourselves to the working world.

Art & Portfolio Development – How to Work Professionally as an Artist

Creatives are innovators by nature; carve out a path that works for YOU. Feeling lost or not knowing how to move forward is ok! Admit where you are at and go from there…working with a counsellor, mentor or coach can help

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

As well as contributing to the Virtual Forum Series, Experience Canada’s program partners are also offering additional resources to assist with asynchronous learning.

Gap Years - Discussion Guide & Learning Resources.docx

Gap Years - Discussion Guide & Learning Resources Gap Years are often misunderstood in Canada - sometimes assumed to be year-long extravagant backpacking trips to Europe for the affluent, but in actuality are a tool for students who want or need to take a break from formal education. This prese…

Job Search Webinar and workshop overview.docx

Workshop Promotion Summary The process of finding a new job is both an art and a science and this workshop is designed to help develop the skills you need in today’s labour market. It will offer you tools to map out the path from identifying your passion to landing a new position. We will expl…

Exploring the trades presentation

Gap Year Workshop Overview

In this workshop we will explore the pros and cons of taking a gap year, tips for how to make this time purposeful instead of "wasting" it, what it means for future university or college, and how to talk to your parents about this beneficial pathway.

Exp Canada Presentation - Career Coaching.pptx

MODERN JOB SEARCH SKILLS Jennifer Gaudette

Career Choices

Our Career choices program aims to create online resources to support youth in planning for post-secondary – whether that is continuing in school, or venturing out to the workplace. The virtual series will cover a broad range of possibilities, both traditional and non-traditional, reflecting the diversity of opportunities in the marketplace.

Gap Years - Assignment/Project Overview.docx

Gap Years - Assignment/Project Overview During the workshop, youth will be asked to use half of a piece of paper to draw a backpack and put in all of the things that are on their mind, the things that they are currently balancing in their lives. This element is designed to help students recogniz…

Exploring the trades discussion guide

Exploring the Skilled Trades presentation and activity
was created and facilitated by Shannon Tymosko in
collaboration with Experience Canada for Virtual Youth
Leadership Forum 2022-23.

Career Choices - Learning Resources - Experiences Canada

We encourage you to view the webinars with your students, and continue the conversation in your virtual classrooms using our lesson plans and workshop facilitator guides.

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