Career Exploration & Job Readiness

Career fairs and trades days are an essential part of career-connected learning. Students who participate in career exploration can start planning for their post-high lives and careers and figure out what it takes to prepare for life after high school as they get closer to realizing their post-high goals.

When students participate in career fairs and trades days, they get real-world opportunities for contextualizing concepts like career clusters and what their training options are. At the same time, industry partners have a chance to connect and engage with enthusiastic members of the future workforce within their communities while increasing local awareness about their brand, business, or corporate social responsibility initiatives (CSR).

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Our wonderful partners at Portland Workforce Alliance (PWA) plan several career days at local businesses and organizations throughout the Portland Metro area.

Check PWA's events page for the most current schedule, as new career days are added frequently.

Upcoming PWA Career Days (spring 2025)

Each career day has separate details and registration links; check PWA's website (or follow links below) to register.

Tue, 4/29 8:45 AM-12:00 PM Opsis Architecture Career Day

Tue, 4/29 Kaiser Permanente Career Day (FULL-no more registrations accepted)

Thur, 5/1 8:45 AM-11:30 AM Environmental Health (Multnomah County) Career Day

Tue, 5/6 9:15 AM-12:00 PM Creative Career Day (Intuitive Digital, MadFish Digital, and more!)

Thur, 5/8 8:45 AM-12:00 PM Landscape Architecture Career Day (GreenWorks)

Tue, 5/13 9:15 AM-12:30 PM Mental Health Career Day (includes workshop on healthy communication & setting boundaries)

Unfortunately, Reynolds HS cannot offer field trips for groups of students to attend most PWA career days as school-sponsored events. RHS students are welcome to attend PWA Career Days as long as they:

REGISTER individually for each event in advance
ARRANGE their own TRANSPORTATION to and from each event
Have PARENT/GUARDIAN's PERMISSION if student is under 18 years old (permission form is part of the student's online registration process)
Have a PARENT/GUARDIAN CONTACT the RHS ATTENDANCE OFFICE to excuse student's absence if they are missing school to attend a PWA career day