Career Research Paper
Format: 3 pages, double-spaced, typed, #12 font Content:
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For the Career Research Paper, choose a career that interests you or one suggested by the career assessments done in the class. Answer these possible questions:
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Describe the career. What are the typical job duties? Why are you interested in this career?
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Are certain personality types and skills desired and/or required? How does your personality type match this career or not? Go back to your AchieveWorks Assessments. Click on this Video (Links to an external site.) on finding your assessment results.
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What are some advantages and disadvantages of working in this career? What type of environment will you be working in?
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What is a typical day, week, month, year? What is the salary or pay? Part time? Full time?
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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?
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What are the educational requirements? Licenses?
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What are related majors or majors needed for this career?
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What are related occupations for this career? Research other occupations similar that may be of interest.
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What are the growth opportunities?
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What interesting facts did you discover?
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Extra: Find a job advertisement on this career and paste it on a piece of paper or download it from a website (extra)
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To research your career, use at least 4 sources of information
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