Career Development Program
The Center for Arts Education’s Career Development Program creates opportunities for high school students and educators to participate in school-to-career activities in the arts and related industries. The goal: to expose students, teachers, counselors, and administrators to the many career options in New York City’s $21 billion arts industry.
CAE’s Career Development Program was created in 1999, and more than 500 students and 100 worksites have participated since then.
HOW IT WORKS
Each fall, qualified students who attend one of twelve participating schools throughout New York City go through a rigorous selection process, at the end of which twenty-five students remain. At the beginning of the spring semester, this select group takes part in an intensive, two-week orientation at CAE. Also known as "Boot Camp", the orientation showcases careers in the arts and related industries as it provides job-skills training and prepares students for worksite internship placements in fields including marketing, theater, design, music, architecture, the visual arts, and fashion.
Once they earn their internships, students are assigned a project and a mentor. Recent interns' work has ranged from keeping press logs, to creating Flash animation, writing newsletters, and doing research for a television documentary.
Once they earn their internships, students are assigned a project and a mentor. Recent interns' work has ranged from keeping press logs, to creating Flash animation, writing newsletters, and doing research for a television documentary.
The orientation curriculum addresses the recommendations of the U.S. Department of Education Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS), the New York State Learning Standards for Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS), and the New York City Performance Standards for Applied Learning. The curriculum handbooks are available to the general public for a nominal fee.
During the course of their 13-week internships, students receive regular feedback and support from their worksite, CAE, and educator interns from their schools. Each student also:
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
Students who want to be considered for the program must:
- attend a NYC high school with which Career Development partners
- have a GPA of at least 2.5
- have outstanding conduct and school attendance
- be recommended by teachers and counselors
- have parental and school administration permission for early dismissal
EDUCATOR INTERNS
Educator interns are teachers who are selected by their schools to to participate in Career Development professional development activities. They also visit worksites, attend seminars with industry professionals, and provide support for student participants.
On Monday June 15, 2011 CDP celebrated another successful year with a ceremony at the Ford Foundation.
QUESTIONS
E-mail careerdevelopment@caenyc.org or call 212-971-3300 x310. to find out how to apply or to become a CDP worksite. And check out MyArtsCareer.org to learn about about pursuing jobs in dance, literature and writing, media, music, theater, and visual arts.
