Name:

Career search

Objective:

  1. Ability to recognize the different career opportunities to choose from
  2. By completing a career analysis, find careers that suit your interests
  3. Recognize the requirements and education needed for all the different occupations available
  4. Identify working conditions, working experience, and salaries for specified career

Activities:

  1. Uses the resources on the internet, like NY career zone/Naviance to research for information on a career from your surveys. You will be given class time to complete the survey, research, and project
  2. Go on naviance.com and sign in. You will have to complete all the “career” based tests.
  3. 1. Personality test
  4. 2. Career cluster test
  5. 3. Career interest profiler
  6. Then go through the list of careers you were given from your career interest profiler and find at least3 that you are very interested in. You will then fill out a career research worksheet on each one. When you click on your career choice all the information should be there on Naviance. If for some reason the information is not on Naviance then you could use another reputable source.
  7. Then choose 1 of the three careers that you researched and using the information you collected you may choose one of the formats for your career presentation:
  8. Brochure-using publisher you can develop a brochure. It must include pictures, bullets of information, color, and be appealing to the eye. The bibliography would be on the back panel of the brochure
  9. Advertisement to “sell” your career on Animoto
  10. any other program you may be familiar with (must be approved by me)
  11. The information in the presentation needs to cover the following: education requirements ,skills and abilities needed for job ,advancement opportunities ,salary range ,description of job responsibilities, working conditions, job outlook, and New Paltz high school classes that you can take that relates to the career.

Name:

Career Research Worksheet:

  1. Job title:
  1. Definition of job description
  1. Education requirements and two schools you could go to for further education
  1. Skills and abilities needed for the job (at least 5)
  1. Advancement opportunities/similar careers
  1. Salary range-
  2. Job outlook-
  1. Description of job responsibilities
  1. Description of working conditions
  1. Pros and cons of this career (2 of each)
  1. Summary of this career
  1. New Paltz high school classes that relate-
  1. Bibliography

Name:

Career Research Worksheet:

  1. Job title:
  1. Definition of job description
  1. Education requirements and two schools you could go to for further education
  1. Skills and abilities needed for the job (at least 5)
  1. Advancement opportunities/similar careers
  1. Salary range-
  2. Job outlook-
  1. Description of job responsibilities
  1. Description of working conditions
  1. Pros and cons of this career (2 of each)
  1. Summary of this career
  1. New Paltz high school classes that relate-
  1. Bibliography

Name:

Career Research Worksheet:

  1. Job title:
  1. Definition of job description
  1. Education requirements and two schools you could go to for further education
  1. Skills and abilities needed for the job (at least 5)
  1. Advancement opportunities/similar careers
  1. Salary range-
  2. Job outlook-
  1. Description of job responsibilities
  1. Description of working conditions
  1. Pros and cons of this career (2 of each)
  1. Summary of this career
  1. New Paltz high school classes that relate-
  1. Bibliography