Career Day Volunteers Needed

This year all of our Northshore School District Middle Schools will have a virtual Career Day together! In order to make this happen, many volunteer speakers are needed.

Career Day Information
The NSD Middle School PTSAs, along with the Northshore Schools Foundation, have joined forces to make sure our students can participate in an online Career Day. This year’s online program will take place on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. 

Career Day offers NSD middle school students insight into many different career fields. It gives our students an opportunity to learn what is needed to be successful in different fields/industries. We want our students to understand that no career path is ever a straight line and within any career there are lots of different avenues they can follow.

Volunteers Needed
We are looking for Presenters from ALL career fields and paths, including professional, trade, service industry, stay at home parents – you name it, we welcome it! More importantly, our past surveys show that students are eager hear about every type of job, not just those in the STEM fields.

​There are TWO (2) ways you can volunteer to help with Career Day this year! You can be a Presenter or a Moderator.

​As a Presenter, you will:

• participate using the Zoom platform.
• present alone or may be assigned with one other presenter. Please approach this as a casual conversation. Slides or presentation materials are not necessary.
• meet with 4 rotations of students. Each rotation will last 20 minutes. The last 5 minutes of each rotation should allow for students’ questions. 
• during each of the 4 rotations, you will share information about:
  • Your career journey – the path you took to get to where you are today.
  • Your field / profession – what is it?!
  • Your actual job – what YOU DO (this is the meat of what students want to hear about).

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As a Moderator, you will:

• assist the teacher in moderating the chat window in each virtual classroom.

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Sign up to be a Career Day 2021 Volunteer!

To be a Presenter:

• ​Please send an email to [email protected] with include the following:
  • ​​Field of Work*
  • Title*
  • Employer*
  • Brief Bio* (Just a couple of sentences, including your degree, first job (either as a teen or after training/education), a fun fact (what did you want to be when you were a kid, what is your favorite hobby, who inspired you, etc.)) 

*This information will be included in a directory and will help students identify the professions they want to learn more about. 

To be a Moderator:

• Please send an email to [email protected] stating that you want to be a moderator.
• You must also complete district “level 1“ background check. Become a Volunteer - Northshore School District (nsd.org) Click on School and District Volunteer and complete steps 1-3 (background check level 1). 

Goal is to have all 90 presenters and 45 event volunteers secured by the end of February.
If you know of someone that you feel would be an asset to our students, please feel free share this information!

Questions? Contact the District Career Day Committee at [email protected].

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