Monday-Friday

Students will research 5 different careers to gain a better understanding of each.  Three career choices must be from results of student’s interest inventory or values assessment. Two careers may be student’s choice. Students may research using printouts from their interest and/or value assessments or the Occupational Outlook Handbook online at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/a-z-index.htm.

Students will need to research the following for each career:

• What they do (duties, etc.)
• Work environment
• How to become one (Knowledge & education needed)
• Pay
• Job outlook for the future
• Any other important information

Research will be due by the end of class on Friday, March 3, 2017.  Will count as two daily grades.

Monday-Tuesday:

Students will complete an interest inventory at www.careeronestop.org.  It will rank top areas of interest, then students will choose 3 jobs from their list of choices.  They will then print out description pages for each chosen job.

Wednesday-Thursday-

Students will log onto careeronestop.org to identify their work values, find careers that correspond with their values, and complete the “Values Assessment” worksheet.

Friday-

Students to complete the career clusters interest survey.  Turn in results when complete.

Monday-

Marketing (Retail/Wholesale Sales and Services) Cluster

Tuesday-

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics cluster

Wednesday-

Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics cluster