High School Students Build New Web Site Listing Available Jobs and Career Options
Published May 08, 2009
A new resource for employers and prospective employees is coming, thanks to Madison County high school students.
The students are developing a jobs-available section of the Madison County School District Web site, www.madison.kyschools.us.
The section, listing available positions and the required skills or training successful applicants need to have, is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2009.
From a simple model crafted in early discussions with local business leaders, the concept grew in scope, says David Gilliam, principal of Madison Southern High School.
“We said that our students ought to be able to develop something like that rather easily, and then people could access it through the school district site,” he says. “We turned the idea over to our Student Technology Leadership Program chapter, and they began working on it.”
The Web site’s new section will include career opportunities countywide as well as local business information, job descriptions, career tracks, income and wage scales, educational requirements, and more.
As students have compiled the information, they have learned about the county’s business community and the careers available locally, Gilliam says.
“It’s gotten more intense than we originally planned, and our STLP group has partnered with the one at Madison Central High School. We can take the Berea end of the county while they take the Richmond end. Now the students are interviewing people at different businesses so they can put comprehensive profiles on the site as well as the jobs information.”
Story by Joe Morris
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