How do you ensure your homeschooled children can compete for jobs?

Question

Most jobs nowadays require at least a high school diploma or GED in order to obtain employment. Since not every student is college material or will necessarily complete college, how will you ensure that your children are able to compete for jobs which require a high school diploma, especially if they will not complete college?

Specifically, my question pertains to an actual physical diploma. Most applications require a person to have graduated high school with a "real" diploma.

Answer 1

The GED with notation on resumes and application letters that the student was homeschooled. Every major University is actively recruiting homeschooled kids. If they do well on the SATs nobody cares where they learned it, especially in math.

Also, keep a journal (you as teacher keep it) keeping notes on subjects, activities, (ice skating, volunteering, and contests etc) that the kids participate in. This will be SO helpful as they fill out applications and send out resumes.

Some applications or interviews include the question, "What are your weaknesses?" Be prepared for this question with some innocuous answers. Bad spellers, people who spend too much time playing sports in the sun, news junkies, perfectionist, etc sound like weaknesses but can't be categorized as bad things, really. Say nothing that might lead somebody to thing you have anger issues, time management problems, laziness, sloppiness, etc. It sounds like a no brainer, but questions can stump people who aren't prepared.

Answer 2

I am a home schooled child and i have no problem competing in 'The Real World' for jobs that ordinarily would need a diploma, although i have not even passed the 11th grade. I have held full time jobs in many fields, including construction, commercial fishing, daycare and preschool, horticulture (mixing and bagging potting soil, maintaining a large variety of perennial and annual plants, putting together floral arrangements center pieces and such ), and food processing.

I realize that a lot of people have a hard time with the idea of a home school students but if your child obtains a summer job as many teens do and are able to continue school while being employed they can not only receive OJT on the job training credit, but it can also be noted on a resume. If your kid is attending an accredited program the diploma given to them will serve them just as well as one issued by a public school.

Even if your child doesn't go to college the job experience that they gain while others are off prolonging that leap into 'The Real World' will serve them well and the more people who they interact with on a business level the more job security they have.

Answer 3

dude you must give a very good program for them in home school. make them learn even if the setting aint the school. as their mom you should be a teacher. educate them as best as you could. teach them manners, the right attitude in life and every stuff possible. be sure that they are indeed learned and make them read always.

Answer 4

this is why homeschooling is bad. for so many reasons. as your homeschooled, your state must send a representative to see that your children are passing classes that would be equivalent to what they would learn in a real world class istuaiton

what you are denying them is social interaction, something that many employers do weigh on when they are looking to hire.

a person could smart as heck, but be socially inept to work with others or in a group or work on a group / team project.

i can understand homeschooling until children are 12 years old, but they need social interaction from the teen years until graduation.

Answer 5

I would worry about their abilities to be social... I agree that they can get a good education at home but many people hire those who are socially apt

Answer 6

You could start your own family owned business and then hire your own kid. That's the only way I can think of to ENSURE that they get a job.