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Introducing students to career exploration.

Techniques,  May, 2008  by Beutler, Steve

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USING A WEB-BASED PROGRAM HE DEVELOPED, one educator is helping students understand how their career and lifestyle choices are linked. MyLife, a Web-based life-planning program for young people, offers comprehensive budget activity in which participants develop simulations of their fantasy futures and calculate their future monthly bills--including rent or house payments, car payments, car maintenance, gasoline, insurance, utilities, groceries, clothing and entertainment.

MyLife also motivates students to explore careers to determine which occupations are good fits for them, as well ...

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