Making a Choice

You should complete a 4-year course plan for the classes you plan to take throughout high school. The courses you plan should help you achieve your personal, academic and career goals. Your plan can follow a program of study and help you develop your personal learning plan.

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It’s important for students to record their goals and what better place to do that than on SDMyLife. Students are able to record both their short-term and long-term career and life goals in their profile.

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Document all of your career planning activities (field trips, career fairs, job shadowing, etc.) in your SDMyLife profile. For each activity, you can record a description, the dates the activity took place, and the name of the event or organization (if relevant). You can also attach any files related to the event.

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The Saved Careers section includes a list of all the careers you have saved to your profile while using the features in the Explore Options section. Once you save a career to your profile, you are prompted to provide additional information about why you have saved the career. You can use the heart icon to find all your saved careers.

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The Saved Schools section includes a list of all the schools you have saved to your profile while using the features in the Explore Options section. You can use the heart icon to find all the schools you have saved.

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On the Saved Clusters section, you can indicate which career clusters you are interested in and enter comments about any of the clusters. Click on a cluster title to view a list of occupation profiles that belong in that cluster. You can also review cluster matches recommended for you by Matchmaker. Click on the suggested cluster to see which careers from your Matchmaker suggestions list are included in that cluster.

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In the Skills and Interests sections, you can select or enter all of your skills and interests. You can select skills from 6 categories: Communication and Teamwork, Leadership, Personal, Creativity, Information Analysis, and Physical and technical. You can also select interests from 6 categories: Arts and Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Games and Recreation, Clubs and Organizations, and General Interests. You can rate your level of skill or interest using the 1-3 star rating system.

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