Career Day
Experience Adventures

"Career Experience Adventures" are a dynamic way of extending the boundaries of classroom confines and inspiring students to new personal horizons and experiences. Classrooms ideas and themes are extended and applied out into the world to "real" job situations and career possibilities: through our tours, students reach out, explore and incorporate the many educational hopes and goals which teachers have for them by adventuring into an actual "hands-on" career workplace experience.

Career Day Adventures are designed for teachers & students with specific academic objectives and career-focus in mind - these tours may be multidimensional and include a variety of career opportunities or specifically "in depth" upon a specific career in particular.

Each suggested career module has been developed over time and "tried and true" to include a variety of preferred venues & professional contacts that we work closely with each season. In identifying and defining your personal tour objectives, our reservations office will create a tour itinerary that is interesting and pertinent to your students and educational as well. A world of opportunity awaits you and your students!

And the end results can be life-altering… we are confident that your students will be enriched and inspired after participating in a "Career Day Adventure." Most students come away feeling even more certain that they have chosen the ideal career path and find that the venues & professionals that they meet on our tours offer future networking potential & industry insight. Other students may realize that what they had previously imagined to be an ideal career choice is, in actuality, not ideally suited to them. Either way, they come away enlightened by a valuable exploration of options and a "teachable moment" has been realized!

Career Day Experience Modules

HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES -
Hospital visits, College & University Tours, Schools of Veterinary Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacology & Nursing Programs, Anatomy Lab visits, Rehabilitation Units, Professional Industry Leaders & Academic Administrators to host private "Q & A" sessions with your students. Discover and explore a variety of diverse employment opportunities & career options within the Health & Human Services sector.

MASS MEDIA, FILM & COMMUNICATIONS -
Advertising Agencies, Video Production Houses, Mobile Editing firms, Digital Graphics firms, TV news stations, Casting Agencies, Fashion Houses & Private Studio Visits, Still & Video Photogs in the industry as venues & professional sources of inspiration available to your students with just one phone call!


BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES
Financial Banking Institutions, "Behind the Scenes" Retail & Corporate Organizations Tours, "Q&A" sessions with Controllers & Accounting Directors, Sales & Marketing Directors, & CFO's to uncover the daily workings of the hugely volatile Banking & Finance sector


HOSPITALITY, TRAVEL & TOURISM
Hotel Administration, Concierge Services, Travel & Soft Adventure Experts, Food & Beverage Operations, Visitors & Conventions' Bureaus, Event Planning & Culinary Institutes are all incorporated into our "Hospitality, Travel & Tourism" Module giving your students a broad overview of the varied options available within this popular industry.

LEGAL & PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Coast Guard, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Firefighters & Police Officers, Ocean Rescue, "LawTrain"- higher learning in the field of Law or Political Science, Visits to the College or University Law Schools of your interest… Each visit and venue offers your students the opportunity to "Q&A" with working professionals in their respective work fields or area of expertise.

MARINE BIOLOGY, OCEANOGRAPHY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Daily and multi-day Marine Science & Ocean Studies program working with Marine Researchers, Point Lobos Nature Reserve, In-Depth Aquarium visits including the Long Beach Aquarium, MBARI, Moss Landing School or Oceanography, Monterey Bay Aquarium & Birch Aquarium, Sea World. You might easily incorporate a College or University visit at a school that offers a "School of Marine or Environmental Studies" program as an additional educational perk to your tour.

TRANSPORTATION STUDIES
The challenges of rapid transit metro systems and traveler safety are two popular themes incorporated into this module and we meet a real life Human Crash Test Dummy or visit B.A.R.T (Bay Area Rapid Transit), CALTrans, various Automotive Manufacturing Plants, Maritime Academies, Cable Cars & Electric Bus Transport, Ports of Call, Air Transport & the Federal Aviation Administration sites. The professionals we meet all play integral roles in the transportation industry.

AGRICULTURE & FOOD PRODUCTION
A wide variety of ag-tours and exploration adventures are easily explored in the "bread basket of the world" and the "salad bowl of the world." Visits to local Herb Farms, Berry Growing & Manufacturing Plants, Apple Farms, Ag and Husbandry programs at schools, Flower Markets, Wineries & Viticulture programs, Culinary Institutes in Organic Cooking, Raw Foods Restaurants, Grocery Buyers & Sellers, Working Farm programs, Steinbeck theme visits including Historic Cannery Row & the Steinbeck Center!

Group and Corporate Team Building Challenge yourself & support your team mates these cultural, historical or art-based tours allow teams to complete the hunt "on-task," cooperating with one another and building team spirit in a fun and interesting way!

Guaranteed
to take you where you & your students want to go,
see what you want to see &
do what you want to do!

All GREAT ADVENTURE DISCOVERY TOURS include:

• LODGING – centrally located lodging accommodations at recognizable and notable nationwide chain hotels (i.e. Radisson, Marriott, Holiday Inn, Days Inn, Hampton Inn…)
• FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE ITINERARIES – entirely flexible tour dates & tour
  lengths to suit your calendar and travel needs
• TRANSPORTATION - Air and Motorcoach tours available - deluxe Eurostyle Motorcoaches (S.P.A.B. certified to transport students on our overnight and single day adventures) Coaches with VCRs and Restrooms aboard!
• PROMOTION & REGISTRATION PACKET – complete advertising, registration sheets, rosters, room lists…. Included in each tour to get you started!
• RESERVATION ARRANGEMENTS MADE by GAT – all desired travel and
  exhibit entry reservations made for you by our office
• PROFESSINAL TOUR GUIDE ESCORTS aboard each tour as desired for full
  time tour assistance – leave the tour facilitation to us!
• MEAL OPTIONS on all packages – as desired!
• COMPREHENSIVE PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY INSURANCE for you and your school protection as sponsor of the tour
• TWO CALIFORNIA OFFICES LOCAL TO YOU TO MEET YOUR NEEDS!
• FREE TRIP FOR YOU AS THE TOUR SPONSOR!!!
  
  We know what it takes to get the job done…
  We have over 38 YEARS EXPERIENCE doing it right!
  Join us on a Great Adventure Tour this year!

Frequently Asked Questions