Careers


 * **Career Research **
 * Library Day 1 - Discovering Careers and Assessing Your Skills **


 * Goals: **
 * Take a career survey to discover your skills & interests and jobs that might match them
 * Answer questions about your post-high school plans and the help you need to develop plans
 * Discover jobs that will be in high demand
 * Explorer careers you had not considered in your future

**Steps** 1. Look at this presentation on the “10 Best Jobs of 2011” and answer the questions on your handout.

2. Look at this presentation on the “10 Worst Jobs of 2011” and answer the questions on your handout.

3. Take “Job Discovery Wizard” and follow the directions on your handout. On the second page of the survey, use your expected/intended level of education NOT your current one.


 * Note**: if you don’t know what one of the phrases/job descriptions means, ask your teacher or Mrs. MacDonald for help.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">4. Read the **center column** of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">this page and write down your three-letter code on your handout.

5. Go to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">this page and, using your three-letter code for #4, follow the directions for discovering possible careers for your future. Complete directions on your handout. ||