PWA works with Oregon employers to host about two dozen career days a year for high school students, and we support the “Discover Careers” program for Oregon Health & Science University. Here are some of our favorite photos from late winter and early spring career days. (Read what students say about the value of these career days.)

 

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Design is an important part of Portland’s employment outlook, so we’re glad to work with such a rich diversity of businesses with specialties such as shoe design, industrial design, graphic design and experience design. They include Nike, Instrument, Upswell and Ziba Design.

 

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We also took students to McKinstry, a full-service DBOM firm (design, build, operate and maintain). McKinstry folks did an excellent job showing the many cool careers connected to creating (and caring for) energy-efficient buildings.

 

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We also visited a number of health care employers, including Legacy Health and Oregon Humane Society. Health care is one of the region’s fastest growing employment sectors.

 

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Finally, our tech career day at Elemental Technologies was very popular with students. So were two tri-county career days at Microsoft, one aimed at girls.