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Job Search Five Years Before College Graduation

In February, 102 juniors at Port Chester High School began their search for jobs in careers at a time when they are still five or more years away from college graduation. Using Candogram’s database with two million live job postings students learned about the job market with job titles, employers and job requirements.

Why would high school students look at job postings for doctors and engineers before even applying for college?

The job market is the mostly invisible activity between employers and job seekers. The search for job candidates and job openings occurs primarily through networking and online databases also known as job boards. Information is exchanged between companies and job seekers in job postings and resumes.

Job Postings Tell What Employers Need

Education Match

Education takes significant time and money and is frequently cited as the second largest expense for Americans in their lifetime. Students decide how they use these resources by selecting courses in high school and college. Students decide what they learn and for how long. Their decisions have a major impact on their job search success once they graduate and beyond.

As it turns out language used by employers in job requirements can be matched to course descriptions of high schools and colleges. For this reason it can be beneficial to use job market analysis to help guide decisions which courses to take.

Requirements for skills and education are available in job postings in great detail where employers consistently express their need. An analysis of job postings reveals that “designing skills” are ranked among the top 10 skills desired by leading employers like Apple, Facebook, IBM, Siemens, Tesla, SpaceX, Microsoft and many others. It is important that students recognize the need early and attend foundational classes in Arts and Media to support their STEM learning.

Format of Instruction for Job Market Education

At Port Chester High School the Job Market Education class was taught in two 40 minute periods separated by 2 days. The class included homework which students completed between the two sessions. Students used Candogram for job market analysis. Feedback from students showed that 85% them found the class either important or very important.

Thank You!

I want to thank the Guidance Department at Port Chester High School for their enormous trust and support.

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This is a motivational workshop for high school students. Participants discover that they already possess many valuable skills.

Students learn:

• What is the job market
• How employers communicate
• How job seekers communicate
• Analyze demand for skills and education
• How to self assess their skill set
• How high school courses create skills employers want.

All participants receive a free Candogram account. Workshops are held at your high school.

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Candogram analyzes 2 million live job postings every 24 hours and turns them into a structured database with thousands of job titles, skill and education requirements from over 60,000 employers.

The video demonstrates how easy it is to conduct job market research with Candogram.

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