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Back ﻿Scholarships (excel document coming soon) College Representative visits (excel document coming soon) **Career Counseling**  **College and Post High School Planning** Have a plan for their future. If we don't know where we want to be in 4 or 5 years, how will be know how to get there? Motivation is shown to increase when a student has an idea of where they want to be, because they know the kinds of things they need to do to meet those goals. This does not mean that a student needs to know what they want to be when they grow up, just that they can begin to visualize different options. I meet with students to talk about different careers that combine their interests and abilities. Click below to check out Career Cruising, an online career exploration tool that combines interest inventories and skills inventories to generate personalized career portfolios for each student. Students can research careers along with the training required for those careers and educational institutions that offer those programs. They can see interviews with professionals in those fields, learn salary ranges and outlook statistics for the future of that career.

I help students research colleges and other post-high school options. We research the requirements for admission, programs offered at these colleges/institutions, locations, tuition and scholarships opportunities (see below for financial aid information), among other interests the student may have. Juniors and Seniors are able to miss a total of 2 days of school in order to visit colleges. A permission slip is available in the office and each teachers' signature is required in order for the absence to count as excused, and the student is responsible for the work they miss while they are on a college visit. In addition to the permission form, students are required to attach a business card from the admissions office and obtain a signature from someone in the admissions office of the college and turn this in upon their return to East Dubuque in order for the absence to be considered excused.

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