Career Narrative - Mesa Public Schools
Career Narrative
A career narrative is a 1 ½ - 2 ½ page typed essay that defines your career goals and tells the reader a little bit about who you are, what you are good at, and why you have chosen this path.
Section 1: Career Plan Sheet
Complete this plan sheet. This information will help you write your Career Narrative, Complete one based on what you know about yourself and information you have learned about yourself in class.
Part 1 Personal Profile
Interests: What do you like to do, what intrigues you, what do you enjoy learning about and doing. This may include hobbies, sports, music, clubs, etc. BE SPECIFIC!
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Skills: What can you do? Do you communicate well, speak well, manage money, fix things, computer skills etc.
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Aptitudes: What areas do you have a natural tendency to excel in? Are you good with numbers, communication etc?
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Personal Characteristics: This includes all of your qualities and personal attributes. Are you patient, a good problem solver, competitive etc.?
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Values: These are the things you hold deeply and are essential to you. You might include things like, gaining recognition and respect, creating new things, helping others etc.
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Work Environment: Describe your preferred work environment. (Inside, outside, tasks performed dress code etc.)
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Geographic preference: Where do you want to live? Big City? Small Town? Stay in AZ? Travel frequently?
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Educational Level:
How many years of post-secondary education do you want to pursue? ____________________
What options for further education are you willing to consider (community college, university, technical school?)
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What resources do you have to finance your education? (Scholarships, loans, parents etc.)
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Lifestyle Conditions: Consider your desired standard of living. In today’s dollar what would be acceptable for starting pay? BE REALISTIC
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Part 2: Career Plan
For this section you need to have a specific career in mind. You may want to refer to your computer research.
The career I am planning on pursuing is: _______________________________
1. Write a job description for this job. This should include main duties and responsibilities. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Is this job related to my interests? yes no
Explain: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What main skills does this job require? Do you already possess these skills or are you planning to learn them?
Skill Have/Don’t have Where learned
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4. Does this career choice conflict with any of you values? Explain. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. How well do your personal characteristics fit with the career choice? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. How well does the work environment match with your preferences?
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7. What is the required level of education? _______________________________
8. Are there options for what degrees, certifications, or other post secondary training you need?________________________________________________
9. Where can you get it?_____________________________________________
10. How long will it take?______________________________________________
11. How much is this training going to cost?_______________________________
12. What plan do you have to pay for your education?_______________________
Education required __________________________________________________
Where can you get the education? ______________________________________
How long will it take to complete the training? _____________________________
How much will it cost? ________________________________________________
How will you pay for it?_______________________________________________
13. Will this afford you the lifestyle you desire? What is the pay range you can expect? Are their any special benefits that are common in this job? Is there significant life style choices associated with this career? (travel, high stress, long hours etc.)
Pay range: Starting Salary _________ Average _________ Top __________
Special considerations:
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14. What are the negative aspects or possible disadvantages to pursuing this career? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
15. What is the job outlook? Are there any roadblocks that may make it difficult to achieve this goal? How might you overcome theses obstacles? Explain.
Job outlook:____________________________________________________________
Roadblocks:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Overcoming obstacles: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Overall, does this career seem a good match for you? Explain.
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Now that you have thought fully considered your future goals relating to your career, use the information to write your report.
Career Narrative Rubric
|Content | | | | |
|Title page |(5) has title page typed |(4) has title page typed, |(2-3) Title page is messy or|(0-1) no title page |
|5 |neatly with name, date and |with name, date and titles |hand written | |
| |titles | | | |
|Introduction |(15) clear and complete, |(10-14) clear and complete, |(5-9) Statement not clear, |(0-4) Not interesting |
|15 |interesting, presented in a |somewhat lacking creativity |lack of interest contains 4 |contains less than 4 |
| |way which make the audience |contains 5 of 6 components |of 6 components outlined in |components outlined in |
| |want to read it, |outlined in directions |directions |directions |
|Body |(50) Covers all topics |(40-49) Covers all topics |(30-39) Covers 3 of 4 topics|(0-29) ) Covers 2 or less of|
|50 |presented in the directions |presented in the directions |presented in the directions,|the topics presented in the|
| |plus other information, |flows smoothly. with good |flows less smoothly, with |directions, |
| |flows smoothly. with good |transitions |fair transitions |does not flow smoothly, with|
| |transitions | | |weak transitions |
|Conclusion |(20) Clear and complete |(15-19) Clear and complete |(10-14)Less clear and |(0-9) not clear and complete|
| |statements including a |statements including |complete statements |statements does not |
| |thoughtful description of |advantages and |including some advantages |including advantages and |
| |advantages and |disadvantages, attempts to |and disadvantages, attempts |disadvantages, attempts to |
| |disadvantages, steps to |describe steps to fulfill |to describe steps to fulfill|describe steps to fulfill |
| |fulfill career goal clear, |career goal clear, All |career goal clear, not as |career goal clear, not as |
| |All stated in appositive |stated in appositive manner |positively stated |positively stated |
| |manner and enthusiastic |and enthusiastic | | |
|Mechanics |(30) Easy to read and |(25-29) Easy to read and |(15-24) Not as easy to read |(0-14) Not easy to read and |
| |written in proper format, |written in proper format, |and written in proper |not written in proper |
| |less than 2 grammar or |less than 4 grammar or |format, less than 6 grammar |format, more than 6 grammar|
| |punctuation errors |punctuation errors |or punctuation errors |or punctuation errors |
| |typed as stated in |typed as stated in |typed as stated in |font hard to read or not |
| |directions |directions |directions |typed at all |
|Totals | | | | |
Section 2: Career Narrative
Now you should be ready to write your career narrative. Your final draft needs to be typed. It should be in essay form and will be the introduction to your 4th quarter project, the Portfolio. Failure to complete this project will result in an incomplete and possibly failing and loss of credit. Grading will be based on the attached rubric.
Type should be 12 font in a plain easy to read font such as Arial, New Times Roman etc.
1 ½ -2 ½ pages
1 ½ line spacing
Introduction:
Define your career goal. If you do not know for sure what you want to be, at least identify a career cluster. Explain why you have chosen this career. What interests you about it? Why do you think you would be successful at it? What experiences you have had so far that lead you to think you would like this career?
Body:
Describe the career in all of the following areas
job description: duties and responsibilities of the position
personal qualities/characteristics needed for success
working conditions and environment
average salary
benefits
educational requirements
cost and time of education
where you can get the education needed
Conclusion:
Include advantages and disadvantages for this career. It should be clear in your writing that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. List the disadvantages followed by the advantages.
What Specific plans do you have for pursuing this career? Include further work experience, classes/programs you will take post-secondary plans.
End on a positive note. This should be a sample of your best work!!!
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