The document summarizes the Bearcat Career Experience program at an international school. It discusses holding career exploration and experience weeks to expose students to potential careers. In the exploration week, various speakers present to the whole high school. In the experience week, sophomores, juniors, and some seniors are placed in week-long internships at local companies. Feedback from both students and companies was overwhelmingly positive about the program providing valuable experiential learning opportunities. The goal is to continue expanding the number of company partnerships and student placements.

1. September 4, 2012
9:30am – 11:00am in the LT
Bearcat Career
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Sum

2.  Academic, Personal/Social and Career Domains
 Career Domain
Standard B
Student will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success
and satisfaction
 C:B2 Identify Career Goals
C:B2.3
Use employability and job readiness skills in internship, mentoring,
shadowing and/or other work experience
 Interestingly, my guess would be that the Career domain might be the
neglected/forgotten ASCA “child” of the three domains (or at least not
considered of the same priority) in schools

4.  An opportunity for
company
representatives to meet
with their future
intern(s)… to get to
know each other and to
clarify any
questions/concerns
either party may have
over coffee/juice and
hors d’oeuves.

5.  The Bearcat Meet and
Greet is also an
invaluable learning
experience for our
students to talk about
themselves, their
accomplishments, goals
and aspirations in a
semi-professional
setting.

16. *an evening after the last day of the placement

17.  Evaluate their placements
 Thank you email to their supervisor (cc’d to me)
 Eat pizza!
 Complete their online CAS form (optional)
 Pick up their Certificate of Participation
 Informally share experiences
 Takes pictures and video of their thoughts
 Goodbyes 

23. All Student Video Feedback & Pictures Here!

25.  Blog
 http://bearcat-careers.ism-online.org/
 Facebook Page
 https://www.facebook.com/BearcatCareerExperie
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27.  Developing a stronger partnership with
companies offering placements in June and the
company representatives that speak at our
January “Career Week”
 Early advertising for the placements
 Better completes our Careers program…
“Explore” Careers in January…then
“Experience” one of them in June

28.  The opportunity to
develop overseas
placements for our
student through our
alumni scattered
around the world
 An opportunity to build
and strengthen our
relationships with our
Bearcat Alumni

29. Feedback/Evaluations

30. Feedback/Evaluations

31.  The feedback from companies was
overwhelming positive regarding the Bearcat
Career Experience program.

32.  “I think the exposure will help the students to
decide clearly whether they are ready for the
research field as their career option. They
worked in the research lab just like any
research student with hands on experience of
working using latest technology and
techniques.”

33.  “Programs like this are important in giving our
future community leaders a chance to develop
their awareness of the world around them, and the
kind of role they want to play in it.”
 “It is very fulfilling to see how the students are so
amazed with the processes we share with them
and how their faces lit up as they were on the
XXXX airplane observing everything that's going on
around them.”

34.  “Experiences we have early on in life, especially
the early teen years, impact the choices we
later make as adults. I think it is most helpful
for the students that ISM provides the Bearcat
Career Experience with a view to providing
incoming juniors and seniors, the much-needed
venue to be steeped in (even if for a week) with
a view to helping them gain insight and form
decisions regarding their career choices.”

35.  “Worth the time, a great way to reach out to the
younger generation!”
 “This program was an equally enriching
experience for us as it was to the youth. It was
a good opportunity to help them with their
career decisions and at the same time for us,
be able to create a program for eventual longer-
term internships.”

36. Based on responses
from 25 of 30
companies

37. 40%
36%
Based on responses
from 25 of 30
companies
20%
76
4%
%

38. Feedback/Evaluations

39.  The feedback from student was overwhelming
positive regarding the Bearcat Career
Experience program/their particular
placement.
 However, a few students had some issues with
their placement (not their first choice/boring at
times/not exactly what they wanted/expected)
 Please peruse through the next few slides for
some selected quotes from different student
interns.

40.  “I may not have had a positive outlook going
into the experience but once I started it was so
much fun, it wasn't just a boring desk job, we
got to interact with museum go-ers and the co-
workers were just like us.”
 I really loved my experience at XXXX, which
helped me understand what I really want to do
(research of some sort). I loved how we did
something that really contributed…”

41.  “In the beginning I wasn't really eager on doing
the internship over the holidays, but the
opportunities and experience we got from the
XXXX were amazing, so now afterwards I'm
really glad I decided to join the internship
program.”
 “The placement this year gave me an
unforgettable experience, and I appreciate
that.”

42.  “I thought this placement was perfect for me
especially because I take Business HL and I
really wanted experience in working in a big
business because that is what I want to most
likely do in the future and I felt XXXX really gave
me a view on the environment of the business
and really increased my overall interest and I
would be really happy if I were to get a job with
a fantastic company like XXXX.”

43.  “I had an amazing time and I learned and saw
so much more that I had hoped for. I really
learned so much and this has strengthened my
choice of career path. I am so glad to have
taken part in the experience and I am so
thankful to the XXXX staff.”
 “Informational, eye-opening, and consistently
fun and interesting. Wish the briefings were a
tad shorter, but that's just one small nitpick in
an otherwise excellent posting.”

44.  “I am 100% satisfied with this placement, and I
have no regrets about choosing this placement.
I honestly do not have anything bad that I could
possibly say about this career experience.”
 “The overall placement was no doubt, a
memorable experience. It was great being able
to see how the particular company functions,
as well as all of the work being conducted,
inside and out.”

45. 84%
Based on responses
from 112 of 120
student interns
100 16
% %
0%

47. Companies Students % of Grade
10/11
Our Goal 3-5 20 approx. 5%
2010/2011
Actual 14 60 approx. 16%
2010/2011
Actual 30 120 approx. 32%
2011/2012
Currently ? ? ?
2012/2013

48.  Bearcat Career Exploration (Week)
 Januar y 14 to 18 th
 For the ENTIRE HS Student Body
 Various Speakers at ISM (Careers)
 Contact me if you are interested
 Bearcat Career Experience (Week)
 June 10 to 14 th
 For Sophomores & Juniors (maybe a Senior or two)
 Students placed in companies for one week
 Contact me if you are interested

49. Doug McQueen
Grade 9 / 10 School Counselor
Surnames A-Lh
Room 1060
mcqueend@ismanila.org
+632 840 8664

50. mcqueend@ismanila.org