PHOTO: Middle School Students Complete Career Exploration Program

A group of Smithtown Central School District counselors completed Career Exploration Program with seventh grade students throughout the district.

Counselors Jennifer Harnett and Kimberly Richardson from Nesaquake Middle School; Tom Riviello, Sandy Stone and Marissa Urso frmo Great Hollow Middle School; and Nancy Koch and Emily Bootle from Accompsett Middle School, helped the students explore John Holland’s Theory of Career Choice where people choose an occupation that matched their personality type to experience a higher level of success and job satisfaction.

The seventh graders completed an online assessment to discover their personality type – also known as the Holland Code – stored the information on a site on the student portal, and continue to work with the Theory eighth grade and also in 10th grade to see if the code has changed or remained the same over the years.