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Career Pathways! All the places you will go!

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    Learning Objectives

    • Identify and compare a variety of college campus resources
    • Explain the variety of career pathways available at the college
    • Compare the different Associate degrees in child development and early childhood education
    • Identify and compare the different child development certificates in child development at LAVC.

    Career Development Resources in Your College, Community, and Beyond

    Career experts say that people will change careers (not to mention jobs) five to seven times in a lifetime. So your career will likely not be a straight and narrow path.

    Be sure to set goals and assess your interests, skills and values often. Seek opportunities for career growth and enrichment. And take advantage of the rich set of resources available to you. Below are just a few.

    Career Development Office on Campus

    Whether you are a student, a graduate, or even an employer, you can obtain invaluable career development assistance at your college or university. Campus career centers can support, guide, and empower you in every step of the career development process, from initial planning to achieving lifelong career satisfaction.

    What are the Career and Academic Pathways at Los Angeles Valley College?

    • Career and Academic Pathways (CAPs) are groups of similar programs designed to help you select a program of study (i.e., a major) and speed your progress towards completion.
    • Within each CAP, you can explore a set of program maps that show a semester by semesterpath from program entry to completion. Each program map shows the recommended courses for a full-time student.

    Check out Los Angeles Valley College career and Academic Pathways video below:

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    Let’s Practice!

    Time to explore the world of careers available to you at LAVC! Explore the different Academic Pathways available at LAVC and answer the questions listed below:

    Los Angeles Valley College Career and Academic Pathways

    Questions to answer:

    Using the information that you found at Los Angeles Valley College Career and Academic Pathways

    • List the academic Pathway(s0 that you found appealing to you.
    • Explain which careers you might be interested n exploring
    • Share which degrees and/or certificates you might be inserted in pursuing.

    Your Student Education Plan

    Please use the LAVC Program Mapper as a starting point when meeting with a counselor to develop your Student Education Plan to best meet your schedule and academic goals. The information that you will find about Salary, Growth, and Careers reflects California trends from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Employment Statistics Survey.

    Licenses and Attributions

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    This page titled Career Pathways! All the places you will go! is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Gloria San Jose Daims.