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Career Planning Assignment 4- Career Awareness

Get a watch or have your teacher time you. Time exactly five minutes to list all the different types of work or careers you can think of on a piece of paper. A career can only be counted once. For example, elementary teacher, band teacher, math teacher and science teacher only count as one ― teacher. We think you’ll run out of ideas somewhere near 30!


 * 1) Time exactly five minutes to list all the different types of work or careers you can think of on a Google Document that is shared with the whole class. Type your name and start your list. A career can only be counted once for you. For example, elementary teacher, band teacher, math teacher and science teacher only count as one ― teacher. We think you’ll run out of ideas somewhere near 30! But together we should list a lot. We need one person to Wordle this list.
 * 2) Let’s take another approach and find careers in Choices® Explorer. Log on to [|www.CollegeInColorado.org] and navigate to Choices® Explorer from the Explore Career Options link on the home page, then click on the blue WORK tab.
 * 3) Click on three different School Subjects you enjoy. From each one, select three to five unique work titles you find interesting. If you don’t know some of the careers, click on the title to learn what they are. Use your browser’s back button to return to your list. Add the work titles that interest you to your Work list on the Career Planning Google Document under a section with a large title "Career Awareness".
 * 4) Click on the WORK tab again, then click Keyword Search under Find Careers By and make sure the Careers button is selected. In the Search bar, type a word or two that describes one of your favorite activities. If at first you do not get a result, try different words until you get a good list. Remember to learn a little about each career title that is unfamiliar to you. Select three to five interesting careers from each search until you have added 15 additional careers to the Career Planning Google Document.
 * 5) Click on the WORK tab again. Click on View Descriptions of Clusters and read through the descriptions of the different clusters. Click on one in which you are interested. From the resulting list, select three to five new career titles you find interesting. Again, look up unfamiliar ones. Add the career titles of interest to your Career Planning Google Document.
 * 6) Return to the WORK tab again. Look to the right of the cluster list under Buzz. Scan the article titles and click on one that interests you. Read through the article and write down one or two new career titles you find there.
 * 7) Repeat step 5 with two more Career Cluster titles. If you go over 50 careers listed on your document, that’s great! Being interested in many areas will serve you well for job satisfaction.
 * 8) Congratulations, you now have a list of at least 50 careers that could be in your future. Read the reflection question and answer it in your Google Document.
 * Reflection: The activities prior to this were to convince you of the importance of career planning. This activity is the first stage of that planning ― exploring careers to increase your career awareness. Now you are aware of at least 50 careers you could pursue. Why do you think it is a good idea to start career planning with broader awareness of what careers are out there?