{"id":782,"date":"2017-12-15T13:03:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/?p=782"},"modified":"2023-04-12T15:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T20:33:45","slug":"job-shadowing-experiences-oceana-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/news\/job-shadowing-experiences-oceana-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Shadowing Experiences for Oceana Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Students in the Workplace<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother successful Students in the Workplace series finished up in October.\u00a0 Participating businesses included <strong>Shelby State Bank, Valley City Metals, Pixel Grafix, and Lakeside Rehab<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>25 juniors<\/strong> toured the businesses, spoke with employees one on one and learned about career and educational pathways.\u00a0 Students replied that their favorite parts were <strong>\u201cgetting to feel the atmosphere before making a commitment to that career\u201d<\/strong> and that they were <strong>\u201cable to talk one-on-one with a person specialized in a field I&#8217;m very interested in!<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0 While businesses provided feedback including, <strong>\u201cI was impressed by the student\u2019s interest in our company and their interest to enter the workforce.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 Each business expressed an interest in participating in the program next year as well!\u00a0 Oceana CAN! is looking onward to a <strong>Spring session<\/strong> with potential participating businesses including\u00a0 <strong>GHSP, Oceana Medical Care, Peterson Farms, Gray &amp; Company, and Mercy Lakeshore Hospital<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discover Manufacturing Day\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nOn <strong>October 5th<\/strong> Jim Frank opened the doors of <strong>Valley City Metals<\/strong> to community members and students as part of a nationwide initiative to <strong>encourage the next generation of manufacturers<\/strong>. \u00a0Jim Frank and his employees helped to show two groups for a total of <strong>11 students and a few community members<\/strong> around his shop. \u00a0The groups saw the different machines, parts, and positions at his company. \u00a0Students toured the machine floor as well as following different members of the front of the house while they conducted their duties such as payroll or the ordering or parts. \u00a0<strong>Next year<\/strong> Valley City Metals, Michigan Works, and Oceana College Access Network are looking to make manufacturing day a <strong>larger event, getting more businesses and schools involved!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out event pictures <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/about-us\/photo-gallery\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the Workplace Another successful Students in the Workplace series finished up in October.\u00a0 Participating businesses included Shelby State Bank, Valley City Metals, Pixel Grafix, and Lakeside Rehab.\u00a0 25 juniors toured the businesses, spoke with employees one on one and learned about career and educational pathways.\u00a0 Students replied that their favorite parts were \u201cgetting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanacan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}