Career Opportunities and Personal Finance

Virginia SOL CE.14

Explain career opportunities and understand fundamentals of personal finance.

What students need to be able to do

  • Identify talents, interests, and aspirations that influence career choice.
  • Identify attitudes and behaviors that strengthen individual work ethic and promote career success.
  • Identify human capital, abilities, intellectual and physical skills, work habits, education, and changing supply and demand in the economy.
  • Examine the effect of technological change and globalization on career opportunities.
  • Describe the importance of education to intellectual life, lifelong learning, and personal goals.
  • Analyze the role of financial responsibility in good citizenship including evaluating credit, savings, and investments.
  • Describe the importance of equal opportunities for access to education and training.
  • Research jobs and careers in public and private sectors and understand career pathways.