Imerxn’s Career Exploration Camp helps students explore their interests, learn about potential careers and aim towards specific goals. They provide unique virtual opportunities to explore and engage with global mentors, renowned academicians, and peer mentors across various industries. Students have the opportunity to discuss current trends across different career options, understand future prospects, and learn about basic life skills required to succeed. They gain insights into the level of education, skills, and professionalism they need to acquire to succeed in any chosen career.

The Imerxn Career Exploration Camp is a one-of-a-kind immersive learning program. It’s personalized and curated to the specific interests and needs of the student. Every aspect of the program, right from the career skills module and direct industry mentor interaction is unique. Career readiness module for high school students is not offered in India. We are the pioneers in offering programs focusing on career awareness and career readiness through immersive experiences.

We combine immersive and experiential learning through our programs for maximum impact on the student’s learning journey.

Program highlights include:

• E-Resume and portfolio- Students get to build a resume/ portfolio that can be showcased for college applications and to apply for internships, summer programs etc.

• Training by Harvard alumni and connecting with their network.

• Certification from Harvard Innovation Lab

• Career Assessment test report ( approx. 80 pages).

• Dedicated career mentor to help evaluate and support informed decisions on suitable and relevant career paths.

• Exposure to new technology and tools used in today’s workplace environment.

• Interaction with Industry mentors across the globe engaged in the career pathway the student is interested in pursuing.

• Advice, guidance, and experiences shared by young peer mentors.

• Access to an academic mentors to guide the student on a suitable academic path

The program involves a mix of mentoring sessions as well as experiential workshops to imbibe career awareness and career readiness in the participants. Our unique skillathon facilitated by Harvard Alumni is one of its kind that helps the student gain important skills to succeed in their academic and professional career.

The overall objective of the program is to help students gain valuable exposure to the professional world early, while in high school or college. They will demonstrate a better understanding of the career planning process and how their own skills and interests match up to a career choice/major.

Outcomes include:

• Informed decision about career & Clarity on the career pathway the student wants to pursue, based upon their strength and shortcomings, and feedback how to enhance their skills

• Modeling behavior, attitude, and acquiring skills required in a workplace through the Skillathon (career skills) module.

• Achieve career awareness and career readiness

• Long-term professional career planning and goal setting - detailed career plan for a successful professional career.

• Detailed academic career plan and educational goals at the end of the program

Students in the age group of 13-17 years (8th-12th grade) are eligible to participate in the career exploration program.

This program will especially help 9th and 10th graders to make the right choice of subjects/groups as they prepare for 11th grade. Students who are confused with various career options can gain clarity about which major / career path to take up based on their own competencies and skills unraveled in this program.

It is best to start career planning early and participate in such programs to avoid choosing the wrong courses and making unfitting career choices.

It is a total of 20 hours; Students will be required to spend 10 hours per week including workshops and mentoring sessions to complete this program. The workshops, especially the Skillathon will be 2-3 hours long and mentoring sessions will be for 1 hour.

Every student will be assigned a dedicated career mentor from the Imerxn team. The student will have 2 sessions with the career mentor to discuss the Career Assessment Test report and the way forward. The parent will be part of these 2 sessions.

Apart from this, the student will have 1 session with industry mentor/academic/peer mentors based on interest, relevance, purpose, and clarity required.

It will be a combination of both group and one-on-one settings depending on the student’s career path choices. Career mentor sessions will be one-on-one. Parents can be present in 2 sessions – the “Career pathway recommendation” session and the “Way Forward” session.

No, All the students from 8th to 12th grade can enroll in this program. The ‘career exploration camp’ enables the students to gain knowledge on different career options, understand future prospects, and learn about key life skills required to succeed. If they decide they want to study abroad and need continued mentoring and guidance for profile building right up to the application process Imerxn team will be glad to suggest the next value-add program for enrollment to ensure students benefit from taking the right career pathway.

Yes. The students get a Certificate of completion of Skillathon from Harvard Innovation Lab and a 80 page Career Assessment report, which includes the various skill sets they have, the strengths and skills they need to work on, and the career choices they are likely to excel at.

At the end of the program, the parents will meet with the Career Mentor for a wrap up discussion and way forward session. We will help you decide further engagement in immersive learning opportunities that we can curate, as well as profile building and college prep mentoring programs we offer in a highly personalized manner for every student.

The metrics that we use to measure student engagement include:

• Participation in group discussions

• Response to questions

• Retention of what has been shared by mentors/experts

• The time taken to complete any assignments

• Prep work done before every session

• Response to feedback

• Clarity on educational goals at the end of the program