Introduction
There are several jobs and carreers to choose from. Please choose one, read carefully about it. Congratulations!! This will be your career for the rest of your life. Think for a few minutes about what your life will be like working in this position.
Task
The task involves the students doing research on career fields and specific careers within those fields, investigating their own personalities and personal characteristics, and then creating and presenting a poster that illustrates and defines the outcome of the research. A potential perfect career match, therefore increasing the percentage of “a happier work force.” Students: You will be designing a poster that illustrates what your future ‘job’ will look like. Include pictures, or descriptions of what type of training you will need, what types of businesses you could work at, and the print out of your personality profile results. |
Essential or guiding questions:
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Process
Step One: Personality Profile
Do the online profile at: http://www.ipersonic.com/,
Print out the results. Highlight information that will help you decided what type of career will suit you. Share this information with the teacher and add relevant information to your poster.
Step Two: Go to the link https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/explore-careers to research your assigned career path or any other you might find useful. There will be many specific careers listed under each career path. Complete the Graphic Organizer http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/ You will need to fill in information about three specific careers that fall into your assigned category.
Step Three: Interview three close friends or family members. Ask them about their professional carreers, their studies, if they are happy or if they would have done something different.
Step Four: Poster Create a poster illustrating what your future will be!! Include pictures, or descriptions of what type of training you will need, what types of businesses you could work at, and the print out of your personality profile results.
Step Five: Presentation
Present your poster to the class.
Evaluation
Description: My rubric consists of four parts: Personality Profile, Chosen Career Graphic Organizer, Career Poster and Oral Presentation |
Conclusion
You have done an excellent job in making new discoveries about yourself!!
You have learned:
- The type of personality you have (or at least kinda close to it)
- Some of the career fields you have to choose from
- Some specific careers within those fields
- What some of your close friends and family think about their own careers
- That personality type has a lot to do with happiness in any given career
Do you think you know yourself better after completing this quest?? Are there jobs you were thinking about before that you have now crossed off your list? Are there a few new jobs/careers that you have added to your list of future possibilities?
Do you think that your search for a perfect career is over now? There is always room for improvement!
Don't ever stop in the quest to know yourselves and do what makes you the happiest.