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Ten
Reasons Why You Should Choose a Career Program
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About
99 percent of all career program completers find jobs
within six months of graduation. |
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With
college costs skyrocketing, experience in a Career Program
can help students make choices about a career pathway
before investing in an expensive education. |
| 3 |
Career
program students can earn money while still in high school
for things like car insurance, concerts and clothes. |
| 4 |
The
Compact offers 25 career programs ranging from Health
Careers Technologies to Urban Forestry, from Collision
Repair & Auto Refinishing to Culinary Arts and Catering. |
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By
taking advantage of opportunities such as Career Program
internships, mentoring and worksite learning, students
get a first hand look at the realities of a prospective
career choice. |
| 6 |
Over
the next 10 years, 65 percent of Ohio's new jobs will
require high-tech skills. |
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Career
program completers earn 13 to 47 percent more than their
non-college classmates. |
| 8 |
About
35 percent of career program completers go on to college
or advanced training, and many use their job skills to
help pay for their education. |
| 9 |
Only
a third of the jobs now available will require a college
degree in the next 10 years. |
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The
average worker makes eight to ten job changes in a lifetime.
Career program completers are better prepared to adapt
to changes in the workplace. |
