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:
Minimum education: Bachelor's
degree
Average salary
Occupation size
Job stability
Demand growth
Profile last updated: October 01, 2013
*check out any other information that
you might find valuable on the page
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
|
|
|