Career Day Overhaul v2.0

I am presenting the new version of this mod. The biggest change is an add-on - that adds a Custom Career Day event that you can plan for any day you want. However the in-game event also got some additions, new interactions. I decided to go with Early Access for 1 week cause I spent so much time on making this work, I hope you understand :)

The description is long, but should answer entirely how this mod works and what it adds. Also, remember to delete the previous version, as the name changed.

(Compatibility; Requirements; Languages and Change log at the end of the post)

New changes within in-game Career Day:

• Veterinarian representative added to career stand pool (updated status for all stands below). The only minus is that Vet doesn't have a career outfit

• The Ultimate Career Guide - a book your Sim can take from the career table, I think I covered there all ways of getting income, apart from crafting. There are categories and under each categories there are specific careers/jobs. (Note for modders of custom careers: you can add your own careers to this book, using injector and copying interactions I used for in-game careers. I can help with that if there are any questions.)

• Take a Lollypop - new interaction at the career table that is available when you have Businesses & Hobbies EP.

• Take a Treat - new interaction at the career table that is available when you have Spooky Stuff SP ;)

• Removed override from in-game jobs filtering - if any other creator is overring this as well (like DannitySimmer) this will no longer conflict.

NEW CUSTOM CAREER DAY EVENT

With an add-on you can now plan in the calendar or organize straigh away a Career Day that will last 10h and can be planned for any day of the week, in Auditorium (general lot) or Library. It is a copy of exact career day from the game, just tweaked. You still need the High School Year pack to use it. I do not plan to make it base game compatible at this point. It could be possible with some changes, but I need to focus on some other mods right now, I need the break from this topic.

What's different:

Basically the event looks the same and has the same additions that I introduced in the in-game event, so 6 stands, more careers, more interactions etc. (although I had to create a lot of things from the scratch to make them work outside the active High School, it was quite a tedious work).

There's few things new:

• Active participant can be of all ages. Eventually, I decided to go this way, cause the event could be organized anyway by a Sim of any age (game mechanism), so there was no reason why they couldn't simply participate actively.

• You can (but it's not a requirement) invite other participants (teens or young adults), up to 3, but more teens will come anyway.

• Special Guest job - it's the 7th job representant that you can invite on your own. That way you can invite a Sim also with a CUSTOM CAREER. Modders don't need to make any changes for that to happen. If you know that a certain Sim has a certain career within your save, and you want THAT Sim to show up - you can. It will work also with regular careers. However, the Special Guest will reply only to 1 question - details about the career and the reply will be simply info, where they work. (Note for modders of custom careers: if you want, you can inject new interaction that will be available only during this event and your job representant will be able to answer that).

• Teacher was replaced by Career Advisor - just the change of the title ^^ and no need to invite, they'll come on their own.

• New goals during the event - you don't need to follow it, but people sometimes install mods and don't know what they add, so it is a small addition to show what else you can do during the Career Day :D

• Rewards - nothing big, just a small benefit if you actually talked to job representatives and found some interesting careers

IMPORTANT NOTE:

You need to place 6 career tables (each in different color) for the guest speakers to give their presentations. If you decide to invite a special guest of your own choice - you must place additional 7th career stand - in green color, specifically (it's the custom recolor I created). Each job representant is connected with special stand color. In the original event it's solved differently, but I couldn't make it work in my custom event due to some in-game logic, that I couldn't figure out.

Fun fact:

That I discovered only during this longer event, but it will also apply to normal Career Day event. If you make a job representant to leave the event - they will be replaced almost immediately with new one. Not always, but often the new comers will represent different careers.

I think that's all from news. So below the old description of what this mod was adding so far.

CORE of this mod released so far:

• 3 additional stands (don't forget to place them on the lot for the job representatives!)

• 22 additional careers are added to the pool (now there are 31 careers in all):

  • 1st additional stand:  Civil Designer, Engineer, Scientist, Conservationist, Gardener, Naturopath, Vet, Park Worker

  • 2nd additional stand: Tech Guru, Writer, Law, Education, Activist, Mortician, Salaryperson;

  • 3rd additional stand: Painter, Social Media, Entertainment, Critic, Style Influencer, Romance Consultant, Actor.

• 3 new interactions to each Job Representative: Ask About Possible Salary / Ask About Helpful Skills /Ask About Suitable Studies - always with answer 

• Now when Sim asks for Details about career - they will get answer as well, there will be name of the company hiring and career description.

• Reactions to job details should happen now more often

• 3 new interactions to the Teacher (always available, not only during the event):

  • Ask About Possible Scholarships - gives general information about the scholarships (available only if you have Discover University EP)

  • Ask About Scholarships Chances - gives specific advices for the given Sim (available only if you have Discover University EP)

  • Ask For Career Advice

• Career Stand interactions:

  • Take a Free Pencil - but don't take too much, cause a teacher will not like it! ;)

  • Take a University Leaflet - once you have a leaflet you can also read it (available only if you have Discover University EP)

COMPATIBILITY

My mod is compatible with Schedule School Events: Prom, Exams and Career day by SonozakiSisters. Both mods complement each other perfectly :)

REQUIREMENTS

Requires HIGH SCHOOL YEARS pack, and XML injector (the newest version) to work.

Languages:

English - by default

Polish - by me (integrated)

German - by Blubbie, to download from here: http://simfil.es/4662224/ - might be missing for new parts. Or by helene912, to download from here: https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/translations/ilkavelle-in-german

Chinese (traditional and simplified) - by Jonas (integrated) - missing for new parts.

Spanish - by RoshySims (to download from here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/107000041 - might be missing for new parts.

French - by KimikoSoma, to download from here: https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/mod-career-day-overhaul-par-ilkavelle-trad-fr - might be missing for new parts.

Dutch - by Kimberley (integrated) - missing for new parts.

Russian - by Pumpkin4u, to download from here: https://boosty.to/pumpkin4u/posts/16b6ec95-e1a0-40b9-8e31-9ec452465105?share=post_link

Change log:

28/02/2026 - updated for all February patches

7/12/2025 - not patch related, this update included some fixes, improvements and changes, also PlumbBuddy manifest was added. Details what exactly was changed for this mod can be found in this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mods-update-145212977