Activity

Carrièrosité: Le jeu de cartes de carrière

High School Block, Middle Block
Subjects: Career Education, French Immersion Language Arts, Personal Wellness

Aperçu

Carrièrosité® est un jeu de cartes qui a été créé pour présenter les termes clés utilisés dans les ressources d’information sur le marché du travail (IMT) et pour exposer les joueurs aux possibilités de carrière au Nouveau-Brunswick ainsi qu’aux compétences requises pour accéder à ces possibilités.

Overview

Careerosity® is a youth-inspired game that provides a deeper understanding of careers and skills by encouraging players to associate skills and traits to jobs that may interest them.

NB Curricular Connections

Middle level block

CEFR zone A2+

French Immersion Language Arts (Early) 

  • Strand: Speaking and Listening – Big Idea: Oral Production and Interaction
  • Strand: Reading and Viewing – Big Idea: Vocabulary

Personal Wellness 

  • Strand: Career Connected Learning – Big Idea: Exploring potential career pathways

What you’ll need

  • All grades 6-12 Anglophone schools with French Immersion programs have a game kit available in both official languages. Check with your administration and/or guidance counsellor to locate yours! Are you interested in having one for your own class? Reach out to EECD Learning Specialist Michelle.byrne@gnb.ca.
  • Careerosity® | NBjobs.ca website, includes access to a downloadable glossary and additional information on occupational profiles for every occupation in the game and even more!

  • Already playing careeriosity? ! Did you know that during the month of November you can participate in a Careeriosity tournament. Find more details here! 

Instructions:

Detailed instructions are found in the kit, here is a brief summary.

  1. Shuffle the deck and deal out characteristic cards.
  2. First person will show a career card.
  3. Each player will pick a characteristic card that they think best suited for the career card. For example if it’s carpenter or welder, you could pick ‘work with tools or task oriented’.
  4. Once everyone has submitted a card, mix and reveal characteristic cards
  5. Chat about how well each one fits.
  6. Award point to the person who had the characteristic card chosen, by giving them the career card.
  7. Refill each hand and start new turn!
  8. The player with the most points (career cards) wins!

 

Check out this video, showing the game in action!

 

Downloads 

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