Job Shadowing

Job shadowing is a work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker. The job shadowing work experience is a temporary, unpaid exposure to the workplace in an occupational area of interest to the student.

 There are various area businesses willing to provide job shadow experience:

  • -Somerset Hospital (Doctor, Registered Nurse, Physical Therapist, Physicians Assistant, Certified Nurse Practioner)-Somerset, PA
  • -Somerset Trust-Confluence, PA
  • -Excela Health-Greensburg, PA
  • -Seven Springs-Champion, PA
  • -Universal Forensics Corp.-Somerset, PA
  • -Nemacolin-Farmington, PA
  • -J & J Truck Bodies-Somerset, PA
  • -Meyersdale Hospital-Meyersdale, PA
  • -Guy’s Tire-Grantsville, MD
  • -Somerset Welding & Steel-Somerset, PA

Prior approval  from the Guidance Counselor required.  Visit the Guidance Office for all necessary paperwork, including parent consent, pre-shadowing research questionnaire and post-shadowing observation