Lesson 3 Analyzing and Researching Careers

Lesson 3 Analyzing and Researching Careers

Module 3

Objectives

• Identify different people and organizations that can help in finding a career.

• Discuss the stages of career development.

• Describe different forms of getting career experience.

Essential Question

How can you find a career?

Multiple Choice

When preparing for a career, it is important to figure out how much time, money, and effort will be needed for:

• exploratory interviews

• job-shadowing

• tasks and responsibilities

• education and training

Multiple Choice

Some factory workers work the graveyard shift, from:

• 9 am - 5 pm

• 8 am - 4 pm

• midnight - 8 am

• 4 pm - midnight

Multiple Choice

Occupational Outlook Handbook:

• following a worker for a few days to learn about their job

• formal, unpaid position that allows you to learn job skills

• school program that involves doing community service as part of your school work

• book that describes hundreds of careers and the future for those careers

Multiple Choice

Fringe Benefits

• "extras" provided by many employers, including health insurance, vacations, and retirement plans

• book that describes hundreds of careers and the future for those careers

• the social and physical surroundings in a work place

• a job that offers on-the-job training with pay, usually in a trade

Multiple Choice

Apprenticeship:

• a job that offers on-the-job training with pay, usually in a trade

• following a worker for a few days to learn about their job

• formal, unpaid position that allows you to learn job skills

• school program that involves doing community service as part of your school work

Multiple Choice

Work Environment:

• the social and physical surroundings in a work place

• following a worker for a few days to learn about their job

• a short, informal talk with someone who works in a career you find appealing

• "extras" provided by many employers, including health insurance, vacations, and retirement plans

Multiple Choice

Service Learning:

• school program that involves doing community service as part of your social work

• formal, unpaid position that allows you to learn job skills

• a job that offers on-the-job training with pay, usually in a trade

• a short, informal talk with someone who works in a career you find appealing

Multiple Choice

Internship:

• following a worker for a few days to learn about his or her job

• formal, unpaid position that allows you to learn job skills

• school program that involves doing community service as part of your school work

• a job that offers on-the-job training with pay, usually in a trade

Multiple Choice

Job Shadowing:

• following a worker for a few days to learn about their job

• formal, unpaid position that allows you to learn job skills

• school program that involves doing community service as part of your school work

• a short, informal talk with someone who works in a career you find appealing

Module 3 Career Planning

Vocabulary -Lesson 3: Analyzing and researching Careers ]

Apprenticeship

Learning a trade by working under the guidance of a skilled worker.

BLS

Bureau of Labor Statistics is a unit of the United States Department of Labor.

Internship

A program that provides hands-on experience for a beginner in an occupation, usually unpaid.

OOH

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Career Counselors

People trained to provide information and guidance on choosing a career.

Profession

A field that requires a high level of education.

Networking

Meeting and talking to people in different occupations to find out what they do and to make connections.

Trade

A field that requires high level of manual or technical skill.

Shadowing

Following a person through a workday to see what a job entails.

Open Ended

How can one research careers matching their interest and skills ?

Occupational Outlook Handbook

• https://www.bls.gov/ooh/

Module 3 Lesson 3 Analyzing and Researching Careers

Video Instructions

Lesson 3 Analyzing and Researching Careers

Quiz 3

Multiple Choice

Career Counselors are people trained to provide information and guidance on choosing a career.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is more commonly associated with a trade?

• Apprenticeship

• Internship

• Neither of these

Multiple Choice

Internships are usually paid.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

When analyzing job options you should only concern yourself with the present demand for that job.

• True

• False

Then End

Lesson 3 Analyzing and Researching Careers