Students brainstorm personal characteristics and find information about their career interests and schools and programs that prepare students for those careers. Then students engage in a writing process to create a post-secondary plan which would include educational and career goals, pathways to reach the goals, a resume, and an informational report on the educational training and career opportunities in the chosen field.

Students use a writing process to create a cover letter and resume for a specific job of interest. Students submit the materials to employers representing various career pathways. Students explain, defend, and discuss the letter and resume with these employers. Students are then given a prompt and required to write an essay in an on-demand situation. The employers also provide feedback for the on-demand essay based on the employer's hiring tools.

Teacher reviews the five-paragraph essay structure and the major considerations involving audience and purpose in writing. Teacher delivers a lesson on grammatical structures. As a prewriting activity, students brainstorm lists of positive and negative personal characteristics related to employment. Students write a five-paragraph essay about a potential career based on their personal goals and interests.

Based on their personal strengths and weaknesses related to employment, students choose an essay prompt from a list of 100 job and college application essay topics. Students write a five-paragraph essay to address the chosen essay prompt. Students submit the essay to the school's guidance counselor for review using a teacher-develop rubric.