By Kaitlin Gillespie
Times-News correspondent
teens20@thetimesnews.com
Job shadowing typically is a one-day event that allows students to really get a feel for a field or specific job they are interested in.
Stephanie Mitchener, the coordinator of the program at Western Alamance High School, said “it gives students real-life experience.”
Requirements normally are that they have to be a junior but in some circumstances, seniors may job shadow as well. Some may think that

Stephanie Mitchener is coordinator of the job shadowing program at Western Alamance High School. / Photo submitted
there is no one in the specific job they wish to shadow, but that’s not the case.
“Normally we do well placing a student with a shadow,” Mitchener said.
“Yes sometimes we have fields become full, but we can normally just let them go on a different day.”
Western normally has around 50 or more students do this each year and the response is a positive one.
So are you sure you know what you want to be? Try job shadowing and find out.
Kaitlin Gillespie is a sophomore at Western Alamance High School and a Teens & Twenties writer.