Education and Careers Assignment

Setting yourself up for a rewarding career will be instrumental in your future success and happiness.  Collect all the work you do through this site in a binder to be handed in.  Remember that this is a process of discovery…it is not always neat and tidy and linear…you may do some bouncing around…that’s okay!

This set of steps is the minimal requirement in order to cover all the necessary aspects of searching for career interests and educational requirements.  There is much more information that you can delve into…please feel free to do so if you are interested and have the time.

1. Goto: www.careercruising.com  user name: Reynolds  password: Roadrunners

2. Goto: Portfolio in the Top Menu Bar to create a place to save your search information [use a password you will remember!]

3. From the Left Menu Click on Career Matchmaker (just one tool to help you find careers you may by suited to—it does not work for  everyone) and follow the instructions…save your information in your Portfolio.  

4. From the Left Menu Click on Explore Careers to start looking up careers from the matchmaker exercise and/or other careers you are interested in.  There are 5 ways to search—try a variety!

5. After looking around and talking to others about your interests and options choose 5 Career Options you could potentially see yourself doing and save the printer friendly summary reports for each in your Portfolio.

6. Use the Explore Education & Training search function on the main page to look for programs available and determine where you could go to school for the careers you are interested in.  Save the information in your Portfolio 

7. Don’t forget to check back  http://www.workbc.ca/  to see if there are likely to be jobs available in the careers you have chosen.

*look in middle of page where there is a box for "career profile"

*type in name of career you are interested in e.g. "elementary teacher"

*Check and record stats:

example:

8.Complete the following Summary Chart and hand it in.

	Plan A	Plan B
Career Choice
Reasons for Career Choice
Future Job Prospects *Work Futures Sats Here
Education Requirement
Education Facility
Education Program
Education Duration (number of years)
Cost
Projected income
Other