CAREERS OF THE FUTURE

Senior college application process

CAREERS OF THE FUTURE

Ask your grandparents how they wound up in their particular career and you are likely to hear that they followed in their parents' footseteps.If their fathers were carpenters, they became carpenters, or contractors. If their mothers were schoolteachers, they became schoolteachers. Ask your parents the same question and you'll probably hear about a much more serendipitous route. How can we account for this?

1)The type of jobs that your parents are involved in today may not have existed in your grandparents' day.

2) Your parents' society was a lot more mobile and in a lot more transition than your grandparents' society.

Consider your own future. Prognositicators in the area of FUTURE STUDIES (yes, this is actually a major in some universities today!) make the following claims for your future:

1) The average individual will change careers at least 7 times.

2) Many of the careers available in your adult life have not been created yet!

GOALS OF THE THURSDAY JOB MARKET ASSIGNMENT

1. TO INCREASE YOUR AWARENESS OF THE MANY NEW CAREERS AND JOBS OPENING UP TODAY

2. TO GIVE YOU PRACTICE IN THE "SPEECH TO INFORM" FORMAT

3. TO GIVE NEW STUDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN POWERPOINT BEFORE THEIR SENIOR PRESENTATION

ASSIGNMENT:

I. Research any career field or specific career that interests you. **Learn about all the following areas:

- education level demanded for entry level and then advanced levels of the career

- a typical day in the life of someone in this career; what does the worker do?

- pay scale, and how to advance in the pay scale

-fringe benefits of the job/career

-downsides to the job/career

- what kind of personality traits lend themselves to success in this career?

NOTE: ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS ARE DUE MONDAY, MARCH 13

II. Present your findings to the class in interesting slides in POWERPOINT

RESEARCH- GATHER INTERESTING INFORMATION

CHOICES OF ACTIVITIES TO RESEARCH THE CAREER

Select 3 of the following activities through which to gather information:

1. Review the government sponsored webpage on Jobs of the Future or another article about jobs in the future.

Present information about the future of this career.(Note: this might be a good place to start for those of you that have no idea what career to investigate!)

If you have no idea what career or job to research try any of these links:

................Start with a college major and see what careers are available with this major , using this UCSB counseling website

................Start with a website that lists cool, unique, unusual, and seasonal jobs

-----------Start with another UCSB link that gives examples of jobs for humanities (non-science or math) majors A sublink under this page, entitled Travelogs, also has interviews with specific people who are involved in these careers,.

2. Interview someone (a real living and breathing human) in the profession. Cover at least the following questions:

a. What does the interviewee find challenging in his profession?

b. What path did the interviewee take to his present profession?

c. What education and experience level is required for his present job?

d. What are the fringe benefits and the downsides to his profession?

e. From what does the interviewee derive pride or value in his profession?

f.. How does his/her particular career affect his/her lifestyle?

g. Does the career dictate what kind of people he/she hangs out with? How? Who?

h. How does the career affect his/her self-image?

3. Read about the career in Studs Terkel's book WORKING.Answer the following questions:

Answer each of the questions, then write a relevant quotation from the interview that relates to or supports your answer.

a. What does the interviewee find challenging in his profession?
b. From what does the interviewee derive pride or value in his profession?
c. How does his/her particular career affect his/her lifestyle?
d. Does the career dictate what kind of people he/she hangs out with? How? Who?
e. How does the career affect his/her self-image?

4. Read an online interview which covers the same questions as above. These interviews or stories are available off of some of the above links.

5. Copy down jobs listed in the want ads of a major newspaper that fall into the general field you are interested in. (San Francisco Chronicle link)

Create an EDUCATION LADDER that lists the education and experience required for each of the jobs in the field you've explored.

Note: If you are using Microsoft WORD, use the DRAW tools to create lines. Use the TEXT BOX icon to create boxes. Copy the material from the ads. paste them in the text box. you then can move around the text boxes to the right level of your ladder. If you are working directly with POWERPOINT, the approach is the same.

(See sample for Environmental Services career.)

(Click on the above link for a sample education ladder that you can copy, paste and work with.)

6. Using EUREKA in the CAREER AND PLACEMENT CENTER (ask Mr. Mike Mitchell for help) look up a college major, then read what jobs are associated with this major.

PRESENTATION

CREATE A POWERPOINT PROGRAM OF SLIDES WITH THIS INFORMATION.

Instructions for Powerpoint

................................GOAL OF SPEECH: TO INFORM IN AN INTERESTING MANNER..................................

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

THE SLIDES:

1. TEXT ON SLIDES SHOULD BE SIZE 20 OR ABOVE

2. TEXT SHOULD BE IN A CONSISTENT FONT

3. BACKGROUNDS SHOULD BE CONSISTENT AND SUFFICIENT CONTRAST TO THE FONT

4. GRAPHICS SHOULD BE USED-IN MODERATION - TO ENLIVEN SLIDES:

......SUGGESTED GRAPHICS INCLUDE: CHARTS, TABLES, PICTURES

REMINDER: A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION IS AN OUTLINE OF YOUR POINTS, NOT YOUR ENTIRE SPEECH!!

Evaluate a presentation: What's missing?

THE PRESENTATION SKILLS

1. GOOD EYE CONTACT

2. APPROPRIATE POSTURE (We'll discuss issues that arise when using POWERPOINT and how to deal with them.)

3. GOOD VOICE PROJECTION.

4. GOOD ENUNCIATION

TIME SCHEDULE

Students will be presenting their POWERPOINT speeches - to- inform on Thursdays throughout the semester.

The first date is March 10. Students who volunteer for this first date will receive a 10% extra credit point value ( which essentially raises the evaluation by a full grade.)

There will be three presentations per Thursday.

Your presentation should last about 10-15 minutes.