Business SHSM
Interested in becoming an SHSM student? Talk to your teacher or guidance department today!
With a Business Specialist High Skills Major, students focus on a career path to match their skills and interests in this sector. By making courses more relevant to students, kids get a better understanding of the Business sector because they learn it in a real world environment. Students learn on the job with employers through Co-op and Experiential Learning opportunities, as well as in school. At graduation they receive a specially designated diploma.
A Business SHSM may be for you if you are interested in any of the following careers:
Apprenticeship Training
- Hardware, Lumber, and Building Materials Retailer
- Parts Technician
- Special Events Coordinator
College
- Accounting and Related Clerk
- Administrative Clerk
- Administrative Officer
- Assessor, Valuator, and Appraiser
- Banking, Insurance, and Other Financial Clerk
- Bookkeeper
- Conference and Event Planner
- Court Officer and Justice of the Peace
- Desktop Publishing Operator and Related Occupations
- Insurance Adjuster and Claims Examiner
- Legal Secretary
- Loan Officer
- Personnel and Recruitment Officer
- Personnel Clerk
- Professional in Business Service
- Purchasing Agent and Officer
- Retail and Wholesale Buyer
- Secretary (except Legal and Medical)
- Social Policy Researcher, Consultant, and Program Officer
- Specialist in Human Resources
- Supervisor, Finance and Insurance Clerks
- Supervisor – Recording, Distributing, and Scheduling
University
- Business Development Officer and Marketing Researcher and Consultant
- Economist and Economic Policy Researcher and Analyst
- Executive Assistant
- Financial and Investment Analyst
- Financial Auditor and Accountant
- Mathematician, Statistician, and Actuary
- Professional Occupation in Business Services
- Securities Agent, Investment Dealer, and Broker
- Social Policy Researcher, Consultant, and Program Officer
- Specialist in Human Resources
Workplace
- Accounting and Related Clerk
- Administrative Clerk
- Banking, Insurance, and Other Financial Clerk
- Customer Service and Related Clerks
- Customer Service Representative - Financial Services
- Customs, Ship, and Other Broker
- General Office Clerk
- Payroll Clerk
- Personnel Clerk
- Postal or Mail Clerk
- Purchasing and Inventory Clerk
- Real Estate Agent and Salesperson
- Receptionist, Admitting Clerk
- Records Management and Filing Clerk
- Retail and Wholesale Buyer
- Retail Salesperson and Sales Clerk
- Shippers and Receivers
- Storekeeper and Parts Clerk
A Business SHSM will provide students with an assortment of the following TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATIONS
specific to the Business sector:
- Standard First Aid
- Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation CPR - Level A
- Customer Service
- WHMIS
- Counterfeit Detection
- Ergonomics
- Health and Safety - Office
- Management/Leadership
- A Personality Inventory
- Retail Representative
- Successful Exhibiting
- Summer Company Program