The Future ...
This unit will help you think about your future.
Career Cruising Will be used for all the items on this page!
Matchmaker Results: You need to copy the text of your top 10 career choices and paste them into a Word document.
Name it matchmaker. Create a folder in your H drive and call it Careers.
Put all your files from this Weebly in that folder.
You will need to Highlight or identify the 3 careers that you are going to investigate and use for your presentations.
Save your matchmaker document to your H drive Careers folder
Careers - Detailed questions
Using your Matchmaker document you need to use the 3 highlighted careers to complete this section.
Name each of the 3 separate Word documents the title of the career.
Example: Education, Art, Computers
All of the following information is found on the career cruising web site.
Complete these steps for each of the 3 careers you choose:
1. What aspects of this occupation are suited to you? List them with bullets
2. 3 facts from the job description section need to be written in your own words.
3. Describe the working conditions in your own words.
4. Earnings – wages:
a. What is the pay Level of Experience?
b. What is the national median income?
c. What are some of the ways to earn extra pay?
5. Education:
a. What is the Education & Training required for your job?
b. What are other suggested qualifications?
c. What are the suggested high school subjects? (snip and insert)
6. Take snips of the 3 levels of the career path for the job.
7. List 3 other occupations that you might be interested in that are related to this job.
8. Watch the video interviews for the career. List one thing that you learned from an interview.
When you have completed this step you will have 3 additional documents in your Career folder; each of the documents will be named the career name.
Career Cruising
Open a new Word document and name it Learning Styles and save it to your career folder.
From the Career Cruising Assessment information answer/complete the following
1. What are the 3 learning styles from career cruising?
2. Snip the pie chart with the learning percentages and insert the picture in your document.
3. What is your strongest learning style? (You can list two if they are close or tied.)
4. List (don't snip) the things you can do to help you learn based on this style?
The learningstyles.doc should be saved in your career folder in your H drive.
Open a new Word document and name it Learning Styles and save it to your career folder.
From the Career Cruising Assessment information answer/complete the following
1. What are the 3 learning styles from career cruising?
2. Snip the pie chart with the learning percentages and insert the picture in your document.
3. What is your strongest learning style? (You can list two if they are close or tied.)
4. List (don't snip) the things you can do to help you learn based on this style?
The learningstyles.doc should be saved in your career folder in your H drive.
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