Justice High School held their first Career Day on Thurs­day, March 2^nd during the school day. The purpose of Career Day was for students to get a better under­stand­ing of what they plan on pursu­ing in the future, after high school. There were guest speak­ers from a vari­ety of careers, colleges and univer­si­ties, and mili­tary branches who came to speak to students and help advise them as they make deci­sions for what their next steps in their careers will be. There were also sessions for resume writ­ing work­shops, schol­ar­ships and finan­cial aid. 

These provided oppor­tu­ni­ties have helped students gain an under­stand­ing of what they would like to pursue in the future. Addi­tion­ally, trying new expe­ri­ences has allowed students to explore differ­ent career paths. By hold­ing this event at school, Justice has helped students and staff gain a better under­stand­ing of the indus­tries and career paths they feel passion­ate about and which ones they don’t.

The Career Day allows for an easier college, or job, appli­ca­tion process in the future. Justice College and Career Special­ist Deidra Ander­son helped with the orga­ni­za­tion of this event. “It was created to help prepare indi­vid­u­als regard­less of age, in differ­ent aspects and differ­ent indus­tries and have knowl­edge to share, and we get discour­aged by what we think we know and we didn’t know because we didn’t have the infor­ma­tion and we weren’t exposed,” said Anderson. 

Ander­son believed that hold­ing this event was a great oppor­tu­nity for the Justice commu­nity, “I think students will be more informed about differ­ent colleges and differ­ent career oppor­tu­ni­ties. I think it built a commu­nity amongst us staff and students,” said Ander­son. “We got to learn from some cool guest speak­ers and even our teach­ers were brought into the class­room, and I think that at the end of the day we learned that even though we are doing some­thing differ­ent we are still learning.”

Senior Hashim Ahmed expresses his enjoy­ment of the Career Day expe­ri­ence. “It was really bene­fi­cial and I learned a lot about what I want to do in the future,” said Ahmed. He believes that having this oppor­tu­nity at school gave him further knowl­edge and infor­ma­tion that he may need in the future. He also got to connect with differ­ent colleges that he is currently inter­ested in apply­ing to, during his deci­sion process, he was also able to receive further infor­ma­tion about how to apply, the require­ments and the dead­lines. Hashim plans on study­ing busi­ness in college he states that, “It was really nice, I got to learn more about more careers, and I learned about what I want to do which is busi­ness.” He hopes that the career and explo­ration day would continue in the future so that more students will receive the help and infor­ma­tion they need for the future or even learn new skills.