Introduction
Blueprint Builder is your online career planning tool that contains essential career, education and job search resources to help you plan your career path. Discover career options, find the right education and funding, and target jobs in your selected field.
Key to this learning activity is to get you think about a career path, not as a straight line but as series of interrelated actions that form one’s lifelong career pathway. You can keep track of resources in your personalized Blueprint and make notes to refer to later that will help you continue to locate and use good career information as you move towards your goal of employment.
At the end of this WebQuest you will:
- Register and personalize your account
- Explore Blueprint Resources
- Add resources to Build your Blueprint
- Follow your Blueprint career plan and find your career fit
Task
In this learning activity, you will explore career planning activities and learn how to create your own personalized Blueprint to support your career journey. .
You will: 1. Build a collection of career resources in a personalized Blueprint to support your career journey. 2. Assess various career options and identify careers best suited to you. 3. Make a plan to explore a job you want to learn more about.
Process
Task 1 - How to Register to Build your Personalized Blueprint
Watch this video, it will give you an overview of WorkBC's blueprint builder
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Task 2 - Register for your personal Blueprint Account
Step One: Create an Account
1. Click on https://www.workbc.ca/BlueprintBuilder/?page=1
2.Follow the steps to create your account
• You’ll receive an activation email—just click on that link to activate your account. Then, log in using your email address and password.
Step Three:
Take a quick tour of what is available Select “Build your Blueprint”. View the variety of resources available in each group.
Step Four: Build your own Blueprint
Browse through each of the resource categories. You can easily move between “Career Exploration”, “Education & Funding” or “Job Search” at any time.
Add “Career Compass and Career Trek to your Blueprint
Add the following resource in your Blueprint so you can investigate career options later:
• WorkBC Career Profiles - provide link
Task 3
Select Career Compass Resources and complete 2 quizzes
1. Click on https://www.workbc.ca/CareerCompass/Career-Quiz.aspx
2. Click Abiltiies Quiz and complete. Spend 5-10 minutes sometime exploring the careers that are recommended based on your answers. Save this to your blueprint
3. Click Work Preference Quiz and complete. Spend 5-10 minutes sometime exploring the careers that are recommended based on your answers. Save this to your blueprint
Task 4
Select Career Trek Resource - provide link
1. Click on ‘Skills’ (right of page). This will generates a list of occupations, corresponding information, and videos to the left of the page.
2 From the Career Trek homepage, select a key skill that you possess.
3.From the list of occupations this selection generates, record the first three occupations on a sheet of paper.
4. Watch the Career Trek videos associated with all three occupations.
Save this to your blueprint
Evaluation
BluePrint Builder
Evaulation Rubric
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Use of WorkBC Website |
Successfully uses suggested links to find information and navigates within the site easily without assistance. |
Usually able to use suggested links to find information and navigates within the site easily without assistance. |
Occasionally able to use suggested links to find information and navigates within the sites easily without assistance. |
Needs assistance or supervision to use suggested links and/or to navigate within the sites. |
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Tasks Completed |
All tasks were addressed. Project is completed. |
The tasks are only partially completed. The tasks completed demonstrates a great deal of thought. (Between 75% and 100% complete) |
The tasks are only partially completed. The tasks completed demonstrates a moderate level of thought. (Between 50% and 75% complete) |
One or more required tasks was missing |
Conclusion
Congratualation!!!
Now that you have completed this virtual journey you have gained the knowledge to move forward and find the job of your dreams.
Good Luck
Teacher Page
Estimated Time: 2
Students will need to have basic computer skills to complete this project.
Students will be asked to print their Blueprint findings. The findings will be used as part of the discussion module once the activity is complete.
If you are facilitating this witin a WorkBC contract a copy will also need to be provided to the students Employment Advisro.