What is Your Hot Job?
A FREE, standards-aligned career exploration resource for grades 3-8 that helps students discover their strengths and explore future career possibilities.
Students will uncover answers to questions such as:
- “What career pathways are out there?”
- “What are my strengths, interests, and passions?”
- “Why does what I’m learning in school matter for my future?”
Your Hot Job is a flexible resource. Find support for quick activities, or access a full unit of study. Materials can be scaled up or down to match your students’ readiness.
What Can I Expect From Your Hot Job?
Your Hot Job combines a student-friendly career-interest survey, real-world stories and role models, and ready-to-go lessons and activities. Bring meaningful career exploration into any classroom, without needing to create new curriculum from scratch.
What is Skills Explorer?
- Your starting point for career exploration. Students take a brief Skills Explorer survey to discover their top strengths.
- Personalized results in kid-friendly language. Each student receives a fun profile with suggestions that match their interests, broadening their view of the career possibilities ahead.
- Built on a research-backed framework. Grounded in the Holland Code model, the Skills Explorer framework connects interests and skills to career pathways.
What are Power Skills Courses?
- Video-based lessons to build skills useful for any job. Short, student-driven courses help kids learn soft skills such as collaboration, problem-solving, time management, and more.
- Aligned to standards and SEL frameworks. Lessons connect to ELA standards, CASEL competencies, and 21st‑century skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and responsible decision-making.
- Ready-to-teach supplemental lessons. Power Skills lessons are embedded in the Unit of Study and can be used to dive deeper into any or all of the skills students need.
What Career Pathways are Featured?
- Broad, diverse career pathways. Students can explore industries from space and technology, to sports and health, to public service and hospitality, and many more.
- Kid-friendly career insights. Career cards with “fast facts” job summaries help students compare education paths, skills, and salary ranges in an engaging way.
- Space to imagine “what’s possible”. Reflection worksheets in the educator resources allow students to connect industries and careers to their own motivations and long-term goals.
What Teachers Are Saying About Your Hot Job
- The site helps motivate and encourage my students to work harder and reach their goals. They get excited to learn about what career matches their personality. Thank you!
- This was great to broaden their horizons and have them think beyond the jobs they see every day.
- I think Your Hot Job is such an excellent way to launch my career research unit. It's so well organized and user friendly with graphics that are appealing to students.
- This tool was especially helpful for my Title 1 kids that feel they don't have options beyond high school. This has truly opened their eyes to what is available and attainable to them.
- The site helps motivate and encourage my students to work harder and reach their goals. They get excited to learn about what career matches their personality. Thank you!
- This was great to broaden their horizons and have them think beyond the jobs they see every day.
- I think Your Hot Job is such an excellent way to launch my career research unit. It's so well organized and user friendly with graphics that are appealing to students.
- This tool was especially helpful for my Title 1 kids that feel they don't have options beyond high school. This has truly opened their eyes to what is available and attainable to them.
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