PIC Career Specialists are stationed in BPS high schools to identify, prepare, and match students with paid work experiences in professional environments. They connect with students throughout the year through workshops and career exploration experiences, including individual coaching, resume writing and interviewing skills workshops, career panels, job shadows, mock interviews, and Excel and financial literacy trainings.
How do career exploration activities help students?
Participation in career exploration activities provides students with the opportunity to:
- Get excited about possible careers in professional industries
- Understand the connection between possible career interests and postsecondary education
- Practice appropriate workplace behaviors, including arriving on-time and dressing professionally
- Engage in networking activities and begin to build a professional network
- Learn more about a particular industry or company with the goal of working there in the future
Bootcamps
PIC’s vacation-week bootcamps allow students to earn a small stipend while exploring a career and develop hard skills that will prepare them for jobs and internships. Past bootcamps have provided participants with an opportunity to develop skills in coding, data science, 3D printing, robotics, architecture & design, financial literacy and Microsoft Excel.