Information about Careers



Information about Careers

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Career Assessment Tests:

Try taking a self assessment personality career test to match careers to your personality types.

Rutgers Career Services: Interest Assessments for High School Students

The assessment is based on John Holland's Theory of Vocational Choice. This theory maintains that people can be loosely classified into six categories: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. College majors and careers can also be sorted into these same categories.

Print Resources – Books:

Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance . 13 ed. New York: Facts on File, 2005.

An excellent print source for your Job Research Project. Use Volume 1 to locate a career. There is information how educational requirements, work environment, earnings, and job outlook for many careers.

Career Information Center. 9th ed. New York: Thomson Gale, 2007.

Another great print source for your project. Use volume 13 to locate information on a specific career. Each volume is organized by job type, i.e. health, transportation. You can find a definition of a job, nature of work, salary, training and education, working conditions, and job advancement.

Library Databases:

Proquest eLibrary: E Library Curriculum Edition

Search eLibrary Curriculum for magazine articles and online books on your career. Again, add career to your job title when you search. The Occupational Handbook is available online through Proquest.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library: eBooks click on link below to eBook title

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Bonk, Mary, ed. Career Information Center. 9th ed. 13 vols. Detroit: Macmillan

Reference USA, 2007. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 10 June 2010



Websites:

Career One Stop: Pathways to Career Success

Browse the careers for information on your job. You can find the current wage information, job description, and training for various careers. Select your state to get relevant wage information for your state.

My Next Move Career Exploration Web Site by the U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of Labor Website that provides career information as well as a survey to match careers to your interests.

U.S. Department of Labor's O*Net Online Career Exploration:

Search for careers that require a specific skill or for careers that have a “bright outlook” in terms of employment, providing information on various occupations. There is a link to search for job openings by state.

U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Outlook Quarterly

This is an excellent web site by the U.S. Department of Labor for up-to-date career information.

Vocational Information Center: Career Exploration

Use this web site to explore various vocational and technical careers.

Job Advertisements Online:

Career :

Search for jobs throughout the United States.

Job listings for New Jersey:

Click on “Job” and enter your job title under keyword search.



Lists local careers in New Jersey.



Use this web site to locate salary information for various geographic areas of the United States and Canada.

Wage Information and Job Prospects – N.J.

State of New Jersey – Workforce Public Information Network:

Search for N.J. wage and job forecast information. There is also job opportunities listed on the web site. There are videos to watch on various careers.

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STARTING A NEW LIST

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2. For Citation Level choose Advanced for high school. Citation Style should be marked as MLA.

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4. Click Create Project.

General Directions for each citation

For each Citation you will:

• Go to Components on left of screen click Works Cited. Next, go to MLA Works Cited and click Create Citation.

• Create Citation by choosing from the drop down box list. Then click Create Citation.

• If you are sure of what you are creating choose Continue. The green box.

• When you get to the template, fill in the information you have about your source. Remember, information from a book comes from the TITLE PAGE**Important: you must click Submit when you have finished your work to save it.

• Check for errors, omissions, etc. If you want to correct it, you may choose “edit” You are now ready to start another citation.

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• Then choose Quick Cite: Copy and Paste at the top of the page. This is useful if your source gives proper citation format. Remember to copy and paste the URL in the space provided.

• When you have completed the pasting, click SUBMIT at the bottom of the page.

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When you are finished entering all your sources, choose button Print/Export. To bypass the school’s pop-up blocker, click the blue word, click here.) Click Open. Your list will open looking like a word document which you can edit or print.

Job Research Project

Over the next few weeks you will be embarking on a journey that will help you learn more about a career that interests you. As you know, your high school career is drawing to a close, and you will soon be in a position to make some decisions about your next steps. Whether you plan on going to college or immediately entering the workforce, it will be helpful to have some ideas about various careers open to you. While you will be researching only one career, the presentations done by your classmates will provide you with the opportunity to learn about others as well. Keep in mind that the more you put into this project the more you will get out of it in terms of both grade and personal growth.

Expectations:

Introduction

This is where you introduce your reader to your subject. Share what you may already have known about the subject before researching it. You should also explain why you chose this particular career to research. This part of your paper will be written in the first person.

Research

You will conduct research to learn more about your career of choice. This research needs to include internet sources, databases, journals/magazines, and books. Mrs. Nagle will go over some sources that should be of particular interest. Through your research, you will answer most (if not all) of the questions on the following pages.

Job Ad

In order for you to see what an actual “want ad” for this particular job looks like, you will find one either in the newspaper or on a job search website. You will make a copy of the ad to include in your paper. Make sure you state the source of the ad.

Qualifications (Conclusion)

Based on the information that you found in your research and in the job ad, do you think that you’d be a good candidate for this job. Please write a paragraph or two explaining why (or why not) you’d be a good candidate. This part of your paper will be written in the first person.

Still Interested? (Conclusion)

Based on the information you found in your research, are you still interested in this career? Please talk about your significant findings and your feelings about them. This part of your paper will be written in the first person.

Write-up

You will write your findings up in a formal essay. You will not include the below questions in your actual essay. Instead, you will take your findings and organize them into an essay format that sounds good and makes sense. Since this is a formal essay, you will not use “I” or “me”, with the exception of the introduction and conclusion paragraphs.

*** This entire paper should be approximately 3 or more pages. ***

REMEMBER – Whenever you use information that is not your own you must cite it. If you do not it is called plagiarism. You must use Noodletools to create a Works Cited page. Any information that is directly stated from a source needs to be in quotes.

Presentation

In order to share your findings with the class, so that everyone can benefit from your research, you will prepare a presentation. The presentation will be between 5 and 7 minutes long and must include visuals (posters, PowerPoint, video, handouts etc.) Your presentation will not be a reading of your paper. You must figure out a way to convey your findings in an interesting and informative fashion. Remember this is a formal presentation and should be treated as such.

The following questions need to be answered in your research paper. Each question needs to be written on a note card and then answered on that card through your research OR notes need to be written in Microsoft Word/Pages in the below format.

Questions for Research:

1. What type of education is required?

2. What special skills are required?

3. Are special connections required to break into the field?

4. What are the specific responsibilities of this job?

5. What is a typical day like?

6. Approximately how many hours of work are required per week?

7. In what department in a company is this job typically found?

8. Who does someone with this title typically report to?

9. Does someone in this position usually manage others?

10. What are the opportunities for advancement?

11. What are the best aspects of this job?

12. What are the worst aspects of this job?

13. How much interaction is there with other people? With the public?

14. What are the perks of this job?

15. Does it follow a regular schedule? If not, what type of schedule does it follow?

16. What are the general conditions? Are there safety/health concerns?

17. What are the benefits like?

18. Are there retirement benefits?

19. Do people in this job/industry belong to a union?

20. What dress is required? (casual, business casual, suit, uniform)

21. Is there any travel? How much?

22. Are there any sacrifices that may need to be made?

23. Are there opportunities to work from time? Flex hours?

24. Are there opportunities to be your own boss?

25. What are salaries like?

26. Are there particular parts of this country where it’s easiest to find this job?

27. What is the job market like right now in this field?

28. What are the trade associations for people in this field?

29. What are some career journals that people in this field may subscribe to?

|Assignment |Due Date |Point Value |

|Complete Rutgers career survey and pick a career (Type a couple of sentences telling me your career|3/26 |10 |

|& why you chose it) | | |

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|Answered Questions on note cards |4/07 |30 |

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|Source Check in Noodletools (at least 5) |4/8 |20 |

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|Research Paper Draft – Research based info only |4/9 |50 |

| |Weds. | |

|Introduction, Job Ad, Qualifications, Still Interested? – Written Draft |4/11 |40 |

| |Friday | |

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|Final Paper |4/23 |75 |

| |Weds. | |

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|TOTAL Points | |225 |

* LATE PAPERS EQUAL A ZERO – NO EXCUSES! *

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