Silver Award Step 3: Earn the Girl Scout Silver Career Award
  Understanding more about your community and building a network of people you know will benefit you in two ways:
    You'll start to get ideas about the kind of career you may want someday.
    You'll meet people and develop communication skill that can really help you with your Silver Award Project.
There are four steps to earning the GS Silver Career Award:
 

1. What's out there?

What do you want to be when you grow up?  It's hard to know, isn't it?  The more you find out about career options, the more choices you'll have.  Read newspapers, go online, visit your library, or talk to adults as a way of finding out about:
    a. one job that you know nothing about.  Would you like to do it?  Why or why not?
    b. one job that very few wonen do.  What training do you need for this job?  Would you like to do it?
    c. one job that requires a college degree plus a graduate degree.  What kinds of subjects do you have to study and what kinds of schools offer the degree programs required to enter this field?
   

d. one job that requires an artistic or mechanical skill.  How would you prepare for this job? What steps would you take to move up in this career?

 
 

2.  Who's out there?

Talking to people about their jobs not only gives you more information, but also builds communication skill and a network of contacts you may need when you do your Girl Scout Silver Award Project.
   

a.  Ask a college student the following:

Why are you taking these classes? What job do you expect to get when you done?
   

b.  Find three adults with different jobs (for example: bank officer, government worker, travel agent, store manager, doctor, veterinarian).  Think about your adult network (relatives, neighbors, youth leaders, teachers). Does anyone have a job that sounds interesting to you?  Ask:

How do you spend a typical day? What do you like most about your job?
 

3. Be Your Own Boss

Like to do your own thing?  Maybe you are an entrepreneur at heart.  Earn the Your Own Business Interest Project Award.

If you have already earned the Your Own Business Interest Project Award, earn an Interest Project Award related to the field in which you would like to start a business: for example Invitation to the Dance if you would like to run your own dance studio, Desktop Publishing if you would like to offer publishing and design services to clients, Child Care if you would like to open a day-care business, of The Food Connection if you would like to  be a nutritional consultant.

 
 

4. Keep a journal

Use writing to capture and consider what you have learned in earning your Girl Scout Silver Career Award by completing these statements:
   

I have these three new ideas about making career choices:

 
   

A talent, quality, or skill that I could use in a future career and on my Silver Award Project is:

 
   

A person I met who could help me with my Silver Award project is:

 
   

I think this person could help me by:

 

If you are working on your project as a group, make sure that each girl has her own important role.  Everyone needs to work hard and use her own skills to get the project completed.