CCE Career & College ExplorationsIrving ISD · Grade 7

Six Weeks 6 · Week 2 · Thursday

Day 4: Seven Steps of an Effective Job Search

Students will identify and apply seven steps of an effective job search to one supplied fictional opportunity without applying or sharing personal data.

Daily Learning Contract

  • Topic: Job Search
  • Objective: Students will identify and apply seven steps of an effective job search to one supplied fictional opportunity without applying or sharing personal data.
  • TEKS: d(6)(A)
  • Demonstration of Learning: three-page seven-step trace with a supplied fictional posting, screening record, tracker, tailored résumé bullet, and authorized next action.

TEKS: d(6)(A) Evidence: three-page seven-step trace and tailored résumé evidence

Before Class

Per student, provide the three-page packet, a pencil, and the student's private resume or the printed Jordan model. Pairs may screen the supplied posting, then each student completes a tracker and tailors one true bullet. Project this model: Target: classroom design helper. Source: supplied CCE card. Screen: fictional, no contact route. Status: practice only. Next action: compare one true flyer bullet to the responsibilities. Students do not apply, create accounts, contact employers, upload a résumé to an external site, or enter personal information.

Seven Steps

  1. Set a realistic target.
  2. Prepare truthful materials.
  3. Choose safe, credible sources and people.
  4. Search with specific keywords and location.
  5. Screen the posting and employer.
  6. Track opportunity, deadline, and status.
  7. Tailor, apply through an authorized route, and follow up appropriately.

50-Minute Flow

  1. Warm-up — 5 min. Why “search jobs” is not a plan.
  2. Model the seven steps — 10 min. Walk one fictional opportunity from target through follow-up.
  3. Build Steps 1-4 — 12 min. Target, materials, sources, and search string.
  4. Screen and track — 13 min. Responsibilities, qualifications, deadline, authorized route, source/date, status, next action.
  5. Tailor and follow up — 7 min. Revise one résumé bullet for the fictional posting.
  6. Exit — 3 min. Most important skipped step and why.

Key and Safety Boundary

At minute 14, students should sequence all seven steps. If one-third apply before screening, replay target, prepare, source/search, screen, track, tailor/authorized apply, and follow-up. At minute 30, the tracker should keep source/date, fictional status, and authorized route visible. At minute 43, the tailored bullet should use true evidence and the next action should name a trusted route. Strong evidence keeps searching, screening, tracking, tailoring, applying, and following up separate. A message or job-board result is not verification; use the official employer site or a known adult. No real-world action occurs in this lesson. Safe trim: supply the search string and screen one field together; protect screening, tracker, tailored bullet, and authorized next action. Collect one trace.