Career Development Experience Toolkit

A supervised career development experience must include the following:

• A course transcription and corresponding school credit for the experience or compensation of the student’s work hours for the career development experience, or both.
• A workplace with authentic working conditions and tasks that include, but are not limited to, timekeeping, evaluation of work, responsibility to adhere to safety protocols, or adherence to the standard operating procedures of the organization. The workplace experience must reinforce the relevant technical and essential employability competencies.
• Collaboration between the school district and the community or business partners in developing and monitoring the experiences.
• Feedback given to the student.
• At least 60 hours of participation completed by the student through a single experience or across two experiences; however, no individual experience may be less than 20 hours.

In addition to workplace settings in business or community partner locations, a supervised career development experience may include a workplace setting that is (a) based in the school district if the setting is authentic and the district employee serving as a supervisor is fulfilling the role of an industry mentor or supervisor rather than the role of a classroom teacher; or (b) virtual if it includes authentic virtual, remote, or hybrid working conditions and a mentor or supervisor who is an employee of the workplace’s organization.