Step 1: Choose a career that interests you. This is a fun and informative project that uses your research skills. You will need to complete the following:
1. What the Career is (Job Description)
2. Education/Training Requirements
3. Opportunities for Advancement
4. Salary/Earnings/Benefits
5. Description of “A Typical day in the life of a person in my career choice”
You’ll use this website for your information that is specifically for Michigan Jobs and Career Pathways:
Step 2: Take your notes carefully and thoroughly. Use your own words when taking notes.
Step 3: Examine your information and try to put the facts into a logical order. You will want to follow this order on your document.
Step 4: Complete each section - each section should contain different and precise information.
If you find that you cannot find enough information on your career, you will want to change your career.
Good luck and have fun!
CAREER RESEARCH
Essential Question: What requirements (educational and personal) do I need to succeed at reaching my career goal?
1. What the career is: This includes a description of the career itself, skills or tasks that one performs in this career, and any additional information that you feel is relevant to this area.
2. The educational/training requirements: What level of schooling is necessary? Are there any special tests or exams? (Examples: teachers need to pass the Michigan Teacher exams; truck drivers need to have special driver’s licenses.) Are there any physical or personal requirements? (Examples: the ability to lift heavy loads; the ability to solve complex math equations.)
3. Opportunities for Advancement (Examples: Nurse to nurse trainer; pet store cashier to pet store manager)
4. Salary/Earnings/Benefits: (include vacation time, medical benefits, retirement plans, flexible hours, annual pay increases…)
5. A Typical Day in the Life of …”: A description or list of tasks that one would perform in a typical day.
VISUAL PRESENTATION: OPTIONAL
A PowerPoint can be designed to hold all career information in text form and be accompanied by related pictures, graphs and diagrams. The presentation must contain the information (in paragraph or bullet form) in each of the five areas that has been found through research:
1. Titles in Attractive, readable fonts for each section
2. Description of Career
3. Educational/Training requirements
4. Opportunities within the career
5. Salary/Earnings/Benefits
6. A Typical day in the life of…