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Learning About the Business and Career

This activity aims to learn about the business or career and identify questions to ask.

Note to Instructors: Some of these activities including using the internet to look up information about business and work industries. Depending on the student’s access to computers or skills, you may need to print materials for them prior to the lesson.

Discuss

Before you do your worksite tour and/or job shadowing, you have to prepare. To make the most of this experience, it helps to know more about the business you’ll be visiting. It is important to remember that this is an opportunity to meet an employer. Let’s start by talking about the business you’ll visit.

  • What do you already know about this business, or the kinds of jobs people do there?
  • What do you think it would be like to work there?
  • What do you want to know more about?

Resource

Now, let’s double-check what the student knows about the business. Here are two worksheets for students to pick from to research information about the business. The first one is more general information, and the second option is for more specific information.

  • Option 1: Use All About the Business to guide some of your business research. This worksheet includes general questions about the business type, history, jobs and skills, customers and work culture. Students can write, type, or draw their answer to help them prepare for their visit.
  • Option 2: Use this Research Activity tool from NAF. This tool has more in-depth questions to help students explore more about the business selected.