CAREER INVESTIGATION
A career that I would like to find out more about is:
I would like to find out more about this career because:
Methods that I will use to find out about this career are:
I will get help from:
My aim in doing this project is:
When I have completed the investigation I hope that:
What I know about the career now is:
Where I plan to get my information?
Complete the spidergraph: Can you think of other ways that you can find out about a career.
CAREERS LIBRARY
INTERNET
QUESTIONNAIRE FAS
Planning
DATE / Things to doReflecting on the career investigation
1. How did you feel when you started the investigation?
2. How much did you know starting out?
3. What was good about the investigation?
4. Was there anything you found difficult?
5. What did you learn about getting information?
6. Do you know more about the career now than when you started out?
7. Was the investigation useful?
8. Will you be able to use the information you gathered?
9. How did you integrate other subjects?
10. How well do you think you did in this assignment?
11. What would you do differently the next time?
An Interest Assessment
The Career Investigation
Design a project based on the following headings:
1. Aim of Project
2. Methods of Research
3. Description of what the job involves
4. ‘How to become’: Entry routes to your chosen career
5. Entry requirements
6. Photographs or other relevant materials
7. Report based on interview carried out with someone who is involved in this type of work
8. Your findings
9. Self Evaluation
CAREER INVESTIGATION
What job would you like?
Describe what the work involves?
What sort of skills would you need to have?
What qualifications / training do you need to get the job?
Where can I get this training?
What sort of pay will you get?
What sort of hours will you be working?
What will the working conditions be?
What sort of personality would be advantageous in this type of work?
Questions you could ask someone about their career
Type of job: ______
Date of Interview: ______
Why did you choose this career?
Do you find the career interesting?
What training was involved?
What’s the money like?
What tools or equipment do you use on a day-to-day basis?
What type of environment do you work in?
(e.g out doors, office, lab)
Do you work on your own or with others?
What are the key skills involved in this job?
What are the good things about the job?
What are the bad things about the job?
My Aims in doing this project are:
1) The investigate a career that interests me
2) To gather as much information as I can about that career.
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