Career+Planning+Assignment+8


 * 1) Look up the list of top 10 interests you identified in the Personal Interests in your Google Document entitled Career Planning. Create a table and place those interests in the Areas of Interest column create 3 more columns for Careers, Education, Recreation & Volunteering
 * 2) Log on to [|www.CollegeInColorado.org] and navigate to Explorer from the Choices® career Explorer link on the home page. Click on the Work tab, then under Find Careers By click on the Keyword Search link. Type your first interest word/phrase into the Search for box, making sure the Careers button is clicked. Click Go and review the list of titles from your search. Look over the top 10 or 20 titles, click on and read the information that interests you. Select the career title that most interests you, and click Add to Portfolio in the upper right. Also, write it under the Work heading beside your interest on the Interests Applied Worksheet.
 * 3) IMPORTANT NOTE! Sometimes weird titles show up if an article has your key word in it. For instance, typing "water" into the search tool could get Labor Relations Negotiator because someone interviewed for that article is named Marvin Waters. Try adjusting your search word to get clearer results. For example, try "ocean" rather than “water.”
 * 4) In your Portfolio, under Careers You Added, click on the title of the career you just added. Click on the pathway under This Career is Part of… in the lower right, and read the Introduction for this Pathway. Again, click on Add to Portfolio in the upper right. Also, write it under the Education heading beside your interest word.
 * 5) Return to the Work page and the Keyword Search link. Type the same search word, select Recreation and volunteering, then click Go. Review the recreation and volunteering titles. Read the ones that sound interesting, select the title that most interests you, and click Add to Portfolio in the upper right. Also, write it under the Recreation & Volunteering heading beside your interest word. You should now have a row completed for your first interest word(s).
 * 6) Repeat steps 2 through 4 for each of the other nine interest words on your Interests Applied worksheet.
 * 7) Reflection: Having completed this activity, you now have rough outlines for 10 possible career plans. By career plan, we could really say “life” plan since we’re also considering educational and recreational pursuits. Each of these 10 plans is based on an interest you have identified. Many people end up with a “life” (career, education, & recreation) that they stumble into rather than one for which they planned. Do you think you are more likely to be successful when you stumble into your “life” or when you plan for it? Explain why. Which is more likely to lead to satisfaction? Explain why again.