Soft Skills Scenarios Discussion Prompts for Career Exploration and Readiness

Give your high school or middle school students the career skills they need with these 100 career-themed prompts for conversation starters, discussions, soft skills scenarios, and journal writing. Ideal for career readiness and exploration classes.

These career-themed scenarios focus on:

• soft skills situations
• conflicts
• work dilemmas
• social dilemmas
• real-world problems and issues that teens have faced on the job

Boost life skills and career readiness by encouraging students to reflect on proactive responses to difficult situations that could occur in the workplace.

These workplace-themed questions focus on:

• career choice
• interviews
• character building
• soft skills
• workplace situations
• additional topics and themes

These prompts are perfect for:

• class discussions
• individual career conversations
• writing journals for career education
• soft skills development
• small group career conversations or counseling
• vocational studies

You receive:

• 100 general career-based prompts in:
  • List form for teachers.
  • Prompt cards
  • journal format (see the PREVIEW for a FREE sample page!)
• Journal cover
• EDITABLE prompt cards and journal page!

Both sets include 3 files:

1. Printable set of writing prompts, task cards, and writing journal covers
2. Digital set of writing prompts for online distance learning
3. Editable writing prompt page, covers, and task card pages

Many of these daily dilemmas, work-related prompts, and questions came directly from working with teens in a high school career classroom setting. Our students have many questions and often need support and guidance offered through conversations, class discussions, and journal writing.

✮ Looking for more SOFT SKILLS? Check out the Soft Skills Presentation for Employability Skills - Editable ✮

WHO SHOULD USE THIS RESOURCE?

This resource is perfect for special education, school counselors, occupational vocational, business, school social workers, and career readiness classes.

Ideas for using these prompts include:

•class discussions

•printing the journal pages and stapling them into booklet form (a cover page is included)

•Writing a prompt on the board and asking students to respond in their notebooks

•As bell-ringers or for early finishers

•Print and cut the prompt cards apart and place them in a jar. Pull a prompt as needed for writing time.

I suggest talking about these dilemmas together in class. We know that students learn from each other. Hearing ideas and reactions from peers enables them to see how others feel and exposes them to different perspectives.

*These scenarios and ideas come directly from working with teens in a career-based classroom. Most of these scenarios are taken from real-life situations encountered by real-life students.*

**You must have PowerPoint on your computer/device to edit these prompts.

These sets will be sent in zip files, so please make sure you can open a zip file before purchasing.

Check out the CAREER EXPLORATION Resources:

HUGE Career Tech Resource BUNDLE

Soft Skills Presentation for Employability Skills - Editable

Resume, Cover Letter, and Interview Task Card Bundle

Graduation Transition Plan for Life After High School

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