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To start, make sure you have a notebook for College and Career Success. Each post/activity starts with a quickwrite (QW); you will complete your quickwrites in this notebook, and share them with your EF at your meetings. For each quickwrite, spend about 10 minutes writing down whatever comes to mind in response to the QW prompt. Try to write for the entire 10 minutes.

You can also use this notebook for any thoughts and reflections you want to jot down while completing the activities, and when we get to the college and career planning, you can keep your college list and other notes about college and career interests in your notebook.

If you are new to the course, start at the bottom and work your way up. New posts/activities will appear at the top.

Friday, November 30, 2018

Career Exploration Part I

QW: What are some things that interest you?

Go to the website cacareerzone.org. First, under "Make Money Choices", click "Choose your Lifestyle."  Work through the questions, then make a note of the minimum salary needed to support your lifestyle.  You will need to multiply by 12 to get your minimum annual salary.  Enter the salary on this Google Doc.

Next, under "Assess Yourself", click "Begin Assessment" and choose the Interest Profiler.  After completing the interest profiler, click "explore occupations." Set the income range to include the value you calculated to support your lifestyle.  Then set the "job zone" scale at the top to job zone 1.  Then expand to job zones 1-2, then job zones 1-3, then 1-4 and finally 1-5.  What happens?

Job Zone 1 includes jobs that require little or no training.  Jobs in zone 2 require at least a high school diploma and some training, jobs in zone 3 require more training and possibly a certificate or associate's degree (from a community college, jobs in zone 4 generally require at least a 4-year bachelor's degree, and jobs in zone 5 require an advanced degree (master's, PhD, or professional degree).

Choose 4 or 5 careers you might be interested in (if you can't find 4 or 5 on that list, explore the rest of the site - you can search by job family, or explore all occupations). List the occupations you chose on the Google Doc, along with the job zone for each.

Choose two of the careers you listed above.  For each career, fill in the information on the Google Doc.  Then list at least 3 schools or programs where you can get the education or training you would need.  To search for colleges, use the college search tool on the College Board website.

Turn in the Google Doc to your EF.
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