Careers

To find the career that's right for you:

• Connect with a mentor
• Job shadow professionals
• Participate in career days at school
• Build a resume and practice interviewing
• Check out hot & emerging occupations
• Research careers in your favorite/best school subject
  What Can I Do With a Major In ...?
  Major Discovery Series by Kutztown University
• Do a career interest survey
• Visit Career Research/Resources Links
   

HOLLAND CODE MEANING:

Realistic
-practical, hands-on problems and solutions
-deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials such as wood, tools, and machinery
-enjoy outside work
-do NOT like occupations that mainly involve paperwork or working closely with others

Investigative
-ideas and thinking more than physical activity
-search for facts and figure out problems mentally rather than to persuade or lead people

Artistic
-deal with artistic side of things like forms, designs, and patterns
-like self-expression in their work
-prefer settings where work can be done without following a clear set of rules

Social
-assist others and promote learning and personal development
-prefer to communicate more than to work with objects, machines, or data
-like to teach, give advice, help, or otherwise be of service to people

Enterprising
-start up and carry out projects, especially business ventures
-like persuading and leading people and making decisions
-like taking risks for profit
-prefer action rather than thought

Conventional
-follow set procedures and routines
-prefer working with data and detail more than with ideas
-like precise standards rather than judging things by yourself
-prefer when the lines of authority are clear

Soft Skills employers like their candidates to possess, according to the National Association of Colleges & Employers

Communication
Honesty/Integrity 
Interpersonal
Motivation/Initiative
Work Ethic
Teamwork
Analytical
Flexibility/Adaptability

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Below is a chart of how much you can potentially earn at different levels of education.

(chart from nowu529.com site)

The Occupational Outlook Quarterly (vol. 46 #1) quotes Income Levels below:

See the Labor Market Information and Workforce Information Publications for the most up-to-date figures.

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Career Research Activity

For this search you will be using the Occupational Outlook Handbook online at http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm

Step 1.  List the occupation you want to research:___________________________ Type in that occupation to search, i.e. computer programmer, network administrator, accounting clerk.
Step 2. Using the information you found, answer the following questions:

1. What is the occupational outlook for the career?  Is it a growing field or are there going to be fewer jobs in the future?

2. What and where are the opportunities for this career?

3. What kind of educational preparation does this career require for entry?

4. What technical skills does this career require?  Be specific.

5. What kind of experience is required for entry into this career?

6. What is the salary range for this career?

7. List 2 related occupations to your career.

8. List one address to find additional information about your career.

9. What level math skills does this career require, i.e. algebra, calculus?

 Careers PowerPoints

Career Trends PowerPoint Presentation

Getting and Keeping a Job PowerPoint Presentation

Careers Personality Workshop Powerpoint

Things to Do Starting Now - Researching Careers Powerpoint

Choosing a Career and Pay
According to Forbes, in all, the lowest-paying 25 occupations employ 15.6 million people in America; the best-paying jobs employ 3 million.
Top 25 highest paid careers in the USA according to Forbes 2010:

1. Anesthesiologists
2. Surgeons
3. Obstetricians and Gynecologists
4. Orthodontists
5. Oral Surgeons
6. Internists, General
7. Prosthodontists
8. Psychiatrists
9. Family and General Practitioners
10. Chief Executives
11. Physicians and Surgeons
12. Pediatricians
13. Dentists, General
14. Airline Pilots
15. Podiatrists
16. Lawyers
17. Air Traffic Controllers
18. Engineering Managers
19. Dentists, All Other Specialists
20. Natural Science Managers
21. Marketing Managers
22. Computer and Information System Managers
23. Sales Managers
24. Petroleum Engineers
25. Financial Managers

Worst paying college majors:

1. Social Work
2. Athletic Training  (You don't always work for a professional sports team.)
3. Recreation and Leisure Studies
4. Interior Design
5. Religious Studies
6. Horticulture
7. Education, including special, elementary, and home economics
8. Culinary Arts

Rounding out the 'bottom' are Music and Dance, Drama, Philosophy, and Art