Majors-Minors Fair offers career opportunities for students
These days kids are facing the pressures of figuring-out what they want to pursue as a career before they even graduate high school.
On Wednesday afternoon local high school students swarmed into the Idaho State University Pond Student Union Building to explore the multitude of career options the university has to offer before heading-out into the corporate world.
ISU Career Center career counselor Brady Cook said these days the health care and S.T.E.M fields are not only heavily in demand right now, but they are the most lucrative as well.
Brady added, perhaps we have the “baby-boomer” generation to thank.
“Nursing, hygiene, pharmacy, radio-graphic science, etc., are all options most students are pursuing when coming into ISU,” Cook said. “For example, in health care, one of the reasons I see it is booming is not so much it’s declining or more people are retiring, but because those baby-boomers need to be taken care of so there’s the demand for that.”
He advises students to do their research before choosing a career path straight out of high school by talking to someone who works in the industry or field students are interested in pursuing a career in.
Aaron Olson, Raquel Ames, and Kayleigh Spracklen are all seniors at Pocatello High School, who are set on pursuing careers in pharmacy or the health care field because they feel it will provide job security in the future.
“My parents work in the health care field so I always knew that’s what I wanted to do,” Ames said. “But, our local high schools – Poky, Century and Highland, offer courses in fields we are interested in so that way we can get a good feel for what we like.”
Miranda Wimmer is also a senior at Pocatello High School and said high school seniors need to compose a final paper and complete their senior project on the career path they will pursue post-high school graduation.
She said, this gets stressful.
“It’s like, ‘I can’t give it (the essay) to you because I’m still working on what I want to do and I’m going online and learning about the schooling and stuff like that,” Wimmer said. “Yeah, it gets stressful.”
Cook said for those who are interested in observing the trajectory of career trends, he encourages people to visit this website:http://www.onetonline.org
He said you can also contact the ISU Career Center at this website:http://www.isu.edu/advising/
