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Dear LFHS Parents and Guardians,


Career Connections’ Scouting Your Future connects professionals with LFHS students through an easy, virtual meeting platform. Professionals will discuss their career paths, a typical day, and answer student questions.


Did you know:

  • The New York Times reports there will be 3.5 million open cybersecurity jobs across the globe in 2021.
  • Employment of substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors is projected to grow 23 percent from 2020 to 2030, much faster than the average for all occupations (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
  • According to LinkedIn, digital marketing is the most in-demand career in 2021.
  • Finance offers a fast-paced, continuously challenging career. The global balance of business, finance, and economics shifts every day, which is what makes it so fast-paced, and varied.


Scouting Your Future is on Thursday, October 21 and Friday, October 22 and will offer 8 panel discussions that cover the jobs listed above, as well as many more trending careers, over Google Meets. We have an amazing group of distinguished professionals representing seven different professional areas, including healthcare, law, human resources, mental health, media and marketing, cyber security, and finance. Our final panel is "Scouts 10 Years Out", which focuses on alumni who have all graduated from LFHS within the past 10 years.


The "Scouts 10 Years Out" panel will consist of a variety of alumni who have experience in the military service, going straight into the job market after undergrad, or individuals who have or are working to complete a masters program right away. We are excited to showcase the different steps alumni are currently taking to get to their career goals. This will be an "in progress" look at professionals who can easily relate to what our students are thinking about pursuing and to offer insight into how students can take the next step into life after LFHS. For the full line-up of panelists, please click here for the brochure!


The panel schedule for Scouting Your Future is as follows:

Thursday, October 21st

Friday, October 22nd

9 am: Healthcare

9 am: Legal

11 am: Cyber Security

11 am: Finance

1 pm: Media and Marketing

1 pm: Pharmaceutical Business Focus:One Mission, Many Professions

3 pm: Mental Health

3 pm: Scouts 10 Years Out

How can your student participate:

Complete the sign up at bit.ly/lfhscareers to receive an email reminding your student of the session schedule with the link to join the Google Meets. All panels will be live at bit.ly/scoutingyourfuture. While students are viewing the Google Meets, there will be a time when they can submit questions to any of our panelists to be asked by the moderator. Your students must be logged into their LF School email account to access the links.


There will be a raffle of unique prizes for students who participate in three or more sessions - such as early access to Open Doors Career Shadowing in February! If you have any questions, please contact Ashleigh Malec at amalec@lfschools.net or any committee member.

 

We hope your students can join us!

 

The Career Connections Committee

Laura Adams, Samantha Boyle, Elizabeth DelFava, Ashleigh Malec, Melissa Oakley, Leah Strothman, Marty VanderVelde, and Martha Zeeman