Format: 3 pages, double-spaced, typed, #12 font Content:
- For the Career Research Paper, choose a career that interests you or one suggested by the career assessments done in this class. Answer the following questions in the written paper (paragraph format).
- Describe the career. What are the typical job duties? Why are you interested in this career?
- Are certain personality types and skills desired and/or required? How does your personality type match this career or not? Go back to your Assessments in College Scope to help you answer this.
- What are some advantages and disadvantages of working in this career? What type of environment will you be working in?
- What is a typical day, week, month, year?
- What is the salary or pay? Part time? Full time?
- What is the job outlook? Is there a demand or not in this field? How difficult or not difficult is it to gain employment in this career?
- What are the educational requirements you need to complete to get into this field? Licenses? Experience?
- What are related majors or majors needed for this career?
- What are related occupations for this career? Research other occupations similar that may be of interest.
- What are the growth opportunities?
- What interesting facts did you discover?
- Extra: Find a job advertisement on this career and copy/paste it into your paper. Go to College Central (your campus online job-board you learned about in Week 5 Discussion)
- To research your career, use at least 4 sources of information listed in the bullets below.
- Websites, Texts, E-books, Articles (databases at the library)
- Informational Interview: It is encouraged you use an interview with a person in your career of interest. Go back to the Informational Interview Assignment in Week 3.
- Assessments you did in CollegeScope. Click on any chapter and view your results in your portfolio of Assessments (Personality, Multiple Intelligences, Learning, Skills). Click on this Video
