research paper 903

CAREER RESEARCH PAPER

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 the class. Answer the following questions.

1. Describe the career. What are the typical job duties? Why are you interested in this career?
2. Are certain personality types, interests, skills and values desired for your career – how does it match you? Go back to your portfolio of Career Assessments in CollegeScope: AchieveWORKS-Personality, AchieveWORKS-Intelligence, AchieveWORKS-Learning Styles. Go back to the Career Cruising Assessment on Interests and Values.
3. What are your interest codes for this career? How does your interests and values match this career? Go to Career Cruising.
4. What are some advantages and disadvantages of working in this career? What type of environment will you be working in?
5. What is a typical day, week, month, year? What is the salary or pay? Part time? Full time?
6. 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?
7. What are the educational requirements? Certificates? Licenses? Degrees? Advanced Degrees?
8. What are majors needed for this career?
9. What are related occupations for this career? Research other occupations similar that may be of interest.
10. What are the growth opportunities?
11. What interesting facts did you discover?
12. Extra: Find a job advertisement on this career and paste it on a piece of paper or download it from a website (extra)
13. To research your career, use at least 4 sources of information:

• Internet
• Texts, E-books, Articles, Library Research (see Discussion Five for a review of library resources).
• Informational Interview: It is encouraged you use an interview with a person in your career of interest. Included is a separate sheet that talks about Informational Interviews and possible questions to ask. See handout for Informational Interviewing under Additional Resources below.
• Career Cruising
• AchieveWORKS assessments in your CollegeScope portfolio
• O*NET: https://www.onetonline.org/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Outlook Quarterly and Career Outlook Publications: https://stats.bls.gov/careeroutlook/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• California Career Zone: https://www.cacareerzone.org/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

1. Include a “Works Cited” listing of the sources you used. Get help form the library if you need help with your “Works Cited” format. For computer sources, list the Web address and date accessed. Remember to ask a Librarian for help. There is also an online librarian.