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Business Connections Overview |
Real-World Jobs
Students do real-world jobs for non-profit and small business clients. Business skills are a very important part of the Interactive Media curriculum. The entire two-year IM program contains many projects that are actual, real-world jobs. Many of the jobs completed during the junior year are basic design jobs done for the High School administration, staff, faculty, sports teams, and extracurricular programs. These "in-house" jobs are taken on and completed by the students and facilitated by the IM teacher in order to help students develop the skills specific to working in the design industry. Students learn the communication skills necessary to work efficiently and confidently with adult clients, and organizational skills such as time management with deadlines, teamwork, and recognition of common patterns that occur with commercial design projects. During the senior year, students will work on more difficult jobs with outside local businesses and non-profit agencies.
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Business Seminars Business seminars teach skills that are typically known as "soft skills" or "professional skills" or "employability skills." These are the skills that are statistically the most sought after skills from all employers, so they are valuable and "transferable" from one job to another. How do people get these skills? Quite often, Interactive Media students will get these skills from working with clients. However, they will also engage in the following activities:
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What are the careers of the future? Here are some areas that have job trends that are on the rise:
Employment Outllook The Employment Outllook for Interactive Media careers indicates expected growth. Additionally, Interactive Media "future careers" will utilize the skills that are being introduced in the high school Interactive Media program. High school students who complete Interactive Media courses will have the advantage of a head start competing for careers in a new highly competitive emerging global market. |
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