JA Careers with a Purpose introduces students to the importance of seeking careers that help them realize their life potential and noble purpose. The program demonstrates the importance of positive values, life maxims, and ethical decision-making within the context of career and life decisions. Seven required, volunteer-led sessions.
  • Concepts: Career, Career choices, Job, Life roles, Maxim, Noble purpose, World of work

  • Skills: Analyzing information, Building self-confidence, Categorizing data, Oral and written communication, Public speaking, Working in groups

    JA Careers with a Purpose is a 7 session course and is recommended for students in grades 9-12. Instructional materials are packaged for 32 students and include detailed activity plans for the volunteer, workbooks for students, and consumable materials to be used in the classroom.
 

Our Families emphasizes the roles people play in the local economy and engages students with activities about needs, wants, jobs, tools and skills, and interdependence. Five required, volunteer-led activities.

The key learning objectives listed beside each activity state the skills and knowledge students will gain.
  • Concepts: Business, Choices, Consumers, Earning, Economic Incentives, Economic Institutions, Employment, Family, Human Resources, Incentives, Income, Interdependence, Jobs, Money, Needs, Resources, Scarcity, Skills, Spending, Tools, Voluntary Exchange, Wants, Work


  • Skills: Analyzing information, Decision-making, Differentiating, Drawing, Following directions, Interpreting symbols, Listening responsively, Making observations, Map reading, Matching, Recognizing symbols, Sequencing, Teamwork

    Our Families is a series of five activities recommended for students in first grade. The average time for each activity is 30 minutes. Materials are packaged in a self-contained kit that includes detailed activity plans for the volunteer and materials for 30 students.
 
The Company Program (CP) is a comprehensive and fun program that allows students to set up and run their own business enterprise. With the support and guidance of professional volunteers from the Kuwaiti business community, students will learn to appreciate and better understand the role of business in Kuwaiti society.

CP takes students and their companies through four main stages: 1. organising the company, 2. developing a business plan, 3. managing the company, and 4. liquidating the company. By organising and operating an actual business of their choosing, students not only learn how businesses function, they also learn about the structure of Kuwait’s free enterprise system and the benefits it provides.

Including activities as diverse as researching, interpreting data, negotiating, selling and reporting, CP allows students to experience first-hand the application of verbal, analytical and mathematical skills in a professional business setting.

CP can easily be set up as a supplemental module to other INJAZ Kuwait programs (such as Personal Economics or The Entrepreneurship Masterclass), or as a stand-alone program.

  • Gain a basic understanding and appreciation of Kuwait’s free enterprise system

  • Learn the basics of setting up a business, including constructing and carrying out a business plan

  • Learn the fundamentals of marketing, including establishing production and sales goals

  • Improve their presentation skills and increase their confidence

  • Evaluate the impact of technology, management and government regulations on productivity


  • Learn how to deal with shareholders

  • Develop leadership and team working skills

  • Make connections between what they learn at school and the real world
 

JA Ourselves is a class room based program that tackles three of the JA Pillars of Success; work readiness and financial literacy in a moderate way as well as a minimal approach to Entrepreneurship.

Ourselves is a series of activities recommended for students in aged between 5 to 6 years. It is designed to develop personal economic concepts, through story book characters presented by the volunteer in read-aloud and hands-on activities, to demonstrate helping, working, earning and saving, with hands of activities to engage the students.
  • Supplement the elementary social studies curriculum with business and economics related skills and concepts.

  • Increase the students understanding of personal economics.

  • Help students discover the individuals make choices.
    Introduce students to money, with an emphasis on earning and saving money.

  • Make the students aware of the importance of education for their future.
 

Success Skills meets the needs of a diverse group of high school students by providing engaging, academically enriching, and experiential learning sessions in work-readiness education and career perspectives.
  • Concepts: Building rapport, Careers , Career choices, Choices, Communication, Conflict resolution, Cooperation, Data collection, Effective teamwork, Evaluating information, Job interview, Marketing, Oral communication, Problem-solving, Reflect and evaluate, Resolve conflict, Synergy, Values

  • Skills: Active listening, Analyzing information, Analyzing points of view, Brainstorming, Categorizing data, Cooperation, Critical thinking, Deductive reasoning, Interpreting information, Oral and written communication, Problem-solving, Public speaking, Reflect and evaluate, Self-assessment, Synthesizing and evaluating information, Working in groups

    JA Success Skills is recommended for students in grades 9-12.
 
INJAZ Kuwait Job Shadow (JS) is a one-day program that allows students to gain an authentic work-world experience. By spending a day “shadowing” a professional at his/her workplace, students learn about business culture, work ethics, and career choices.

JS is an academically motivating activity designed to give students a first-hand look at the world of work. As they witness first-hand the application of English, mathematics and problem solving skills, students will be able to answer the all too common question “Why do I have to learn this?”

Depending on the age of students and type of curriculum, JS may also be part of a more time-intensive internship, giving students a chance for a more thorough and realistic experience of their chosen career.

  • Gain first-hand experience of professional life

  • Understand that a good education is the key to getting a good job

  • Make connections between what they learn at school and the real world

  • Develop a personal action plan to obtain the skills necessary to secure the career of their choice

  • Expand their knowledge of careers to assist in their career decisions

  • Get a first-hand experience of teamwork
 

Banks in Action (BIA) teaches high school students about the principles of the banking industry in an exciting and interactive way. Using computer simulation, groups of students “take over” a bank and become responsible for managing all the money in it.

Simulating real life situations, BIA allows students to learn how to attract deposits, make decisions about borrowers and set interest rates, while having to make informed budgetary decisions, such as how much to spend on marketing or research and development.

Requiring written reports on the bank’s performance, students will witness first-hand the application of verbal and mathematical skills in a professional business setting.

The program can easily be presented as a fun competition: the winning group is the one that makes the highest profits and return on investment for their shareholders.
  • Gain a basic understanding of banking and the place of banks and financial institutions in modern economies

  • Gain a basic understanding of the fiscal calendar

  • Make connections between what they learn at school and the real world

  • Differentiate between private and government banks

  • Understand the importance of making cost-effective decisions

  • Learn about, loans, funds and interest rates

  • Acquire basic accounting and finance skills

  • Understand the importance of team work