Career Research Notes
Step 1: Take the Career Cluster Survey
Identify the Career Cluster(s) that best fits your personality, skills and interests by taking the Career Cluster
Survey. Download at
http://www.21things4students.net/downloads/career_prep/careerclustersurvey_20130608_142357_1.pdf
My Top Cluster: My top cluster is Hospitality and Tourism.
View the video about your top Career Cluster at Careerinfonet.org
Video Name: Pediatricians
Video Link: http://www.careeronestop.org/Videos/CareerandClusterVideos/career-and-clustervideos.aspx
Citation Information: Work in private offices or clinics, work with infants and teens, need to make quick
decsions, need to finish college and four years of medical school and then three to eight years of training
called residency.
Include information about the top Career Cluster that matches your personality/skills/interests in your
multi-media presentation.
Additional information I want to include: I’ve always wanted to be a pediatrician since I was younger and
it still interest me. Its cause I’ve always wanted to help people and fix that problem they have.
Step 2: Research your Career Cluster
Visit the CareerShip site at http://mappingyourfuture.org/planyourcareer/careership/index.cfm and search by Career Cluster (using results from
your survey above). Locate three possible careers within your cluster, including details about career descriptions, tasks, interests, education,
knowledge, skills, and etc. for use in your multi-media presentation.
Category
Career Description
Tasks
Career 1
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Photographers: Photograph
persons, subjects,
merchandise, or other
commercial products. May
develop negatives and
produce finished prints.
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Take pictures of
individuals, families,
and small groups,
either in studio or on
location.
- Adjust apertures, shutter
speeds, and camera focus
based on a combination of
factors such as lighting,
field depth, subject motion,
film type, and film speed.
Career 2
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Pediatricians, General:
Diagnose, treat, and help
prevent children's diseases
and injuries.
- Examine patients or order,
perform and interpret diagnostic
tests to obtain information on
medical condition and determine
diagnosis.
- Examine children regularly to
assess their growth and
development.
- Collect, record, and maintain
patient information, such as
medical history, reports, and
examination results.
- Advise patients, parents or
- Use traditional or digital
cameras, along with a
guardians and community
variety of equipment such as members concerning diet, activity,
tripods, filters, and flash at
hygiene, and disease prevention.
Career 3
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Pharmacy Technicians: Prepare
medications under the direction
of a pharmacist. May measure,
mix, count out, label, and record
amounts and dosages of
medications.
- Receive written prescription or refill
requests and verify that information is
complete and accurate.
- Maintain proper storage and security
conditions for drugs.
- Answer telephones, responding to
questions or requests. - Fill bottles
with prescribed medications and type
and affix labels.
- Deliver medications and
pharmaceutical supplies to patients,
nursing stations or surgery.
- Price stock and mark items for sale.
- Maintain and merchandise home
health-care products and services
- Set up, mount, or install
photographic equipment and
cameras.
Interests
Education
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Realistic - Realistic
occupations frequently
involve work activities that
include practical, hands-on
problems and solutions.
They often deal with plants,
animals, and real-world
materials like wood, tools,
and machinery. Many of the
occupations require working
outside, and do not involve
a lot of paperwork or
working closely with others.
- Artistic - Artistic occupations
frequently involve working with
forms, designs and patterns. They
often require self-expression and
the work can be done without
following a clear set of rules
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Education - Most occupations
in this zone require training in
vocational schools, related onthe-job experience, or an
associate's degree.
- Investigative Investigative occupations
frequently involve working
with ideas, and require an
extensive amount of
thinking. These
occupations can involve
searching for facts and
figuring out problems
mentally.
- Social - Social
occupations frequently
involve working with,
communicating with, and
teaching people. These
occupations often involve
helping or providing
service to others.
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Education - Most of these
occupations require graduate
school. For example, they
may require a master's
degree, and some require a
Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law
degree).
- Realistic - Realistic occupations
frequently involve work activities that
include practical, hands-on problems
and solutions. They often deal with
plants, animals, and real-world
materials like wood, tools, and
machinery. Many of the occupations
require working outside, and do not
involve a lot of paperwork or working
closely with others.
- Social - Social occupations
frequently involve working with,
communicating with, and teaching
people. These occupations often
involve helping or providing service to
others.
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Education - Most occupations in
this zone require training in
vocational schools, related onthe-job experience, or an
associate's degree.
Customer and Personal
Service - Knowledge of
principles and processes for
providing customer and
personal services. This
includes customer needs
assessment, meeting quality
standards for services, and
evaluation of customer
satisfaction.
Knowledge
Skills
None
- Administration and Management
- Knowledge of business and
management principles involved in
strategic planning, resource
allocation, human resources
modeling, leadership technique,
production methods, and
coordination of people and
resources.
- Personnel and Human Resources
- Knowledge of principles and
procedures for personnel
recruitment, selection, training,
compensation and benefits, labor
relations and negotiation, and
personnel information systems.
- Administration and Management Knowledge of business and
management principles involved in
strategic planning, resource allocation,
human resources modeling, leadership
technique, production methods, and
coordination of people and resources.
- Mathematics - Knowledge of
arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
calculus, statistics, and their
applications.
- Speaking - Talking to others to
convey information effectively.
Science - Using scientific rules
and methods to solve problems.
None
- Critical Thinking - Using logic
and reasoning to identify the
strengths and weaknesses of
alternative solutions, conclusions
or approaches to problems.
- Active Learning - Understanding
the implications of new
information for both current and
future problem-solving and
decision-making
Other:___________
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Camera Operators,
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Physician Assistants
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Animal Breeders
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Television, Video, and
Motion Picture
Film and Video Editors
Photographic Process
Workers
Set and Exhibit Designers
Sound Engineering
Technicians
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Podiatrists
Registered Nurses
Surgeons
Veterinarians
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Cardiovascular Technologists
and Technicians
Dental Assistants
Medical Records and Health
Information Technicians
Medical Secretaries
Opticians, Dispensing
Step 3: Research Career Outlook
Locate the nature of work, working conditions, education, job outlook, and earnings for your top three careers using the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/ and/or the O*NET Database at http://www.onetonline.org/
Category
Career 1
Career 2
 A pediatrician is a doctor that
Nature of Work
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Market and advertise services
to attract clients
Analyze and decide how to
compose a subject
Use various photographic
techniques and equipment
Capture subjects in
commercial-quality
photographs
Enhance the subject’s
appearance with natural or
artificial light
Use photo enhancing software
Maintain a digital portfolio,
often on a website, to
specializes in caring for children. They
work with babies, toddlers, and
adolescents.
Career 3
 Take the information needed to
fill a prescription from customers
or health professionals
 Measure amounts of medication
for prescriptions
 Package and label prescriptions
 Organize inventory and alert
pharmacists to any shortages of
medications or supplies
 Accept payment for
prescriptions and process
insurance claims
 Enter customer or patient
information, including any
prescriptions taken, into a
computer system
 Answer phone calls from
customers
 Arrange for customers to speak
with pharmacists if customers
have questions about medications
or health matter
demonstrate work
Working Conditions
About 1 in 3 photographers worked part
time in 2012. Hours often are flexible so
they can meet with current and
potential clients or visit the sites where
they will work. Demand for certain types
of photographers may fluctuate with the
season. For example, the demand for
wedding photographers typically
increases in the spring and summer.
Most pediatricians work full time.
Pediatrician offices may be open in the
evenings or on weekends to
accommodate patients. In hospitals,
pediatricians may have to work
occasional nights or weekends, or may
be on call
Most pharmacy technicians work full
time. Pharmacies may be open at all
hours. Therefore, pharmacy
technicians may have to work nights
or weekends.
Job Outlook
Employment of photographers is
projected to grow 4 percent from 2012
to 2022, slower than the average for all
occupations.
Pediatricians offer a valuable service to
humanity by treating children from
infant age into early adulthood. Due to
this, it seems as no surprise that many
doctors who are determining a specialty
choose a career in pediatrics.
Employment of pharmacy technicians
is projected to grow 20 percent from
2012 to 2022, faster than the average
for all occupations. Several factors
will lead to increased demand for
prescription medications.
Earnings
$28,490 per year
$13.70 per hour
$175,000 per year
$77.60 per hour
$29,320 per year
$14.10 per hour
0Step 4: Compare Your Top Three Careers
Use the Career One-Stop to compare your top three careers. Key the career in the search box, then click the
link provided to get more information and view a video. Create a spreadsheet and graph that compares your
top three careers on salary. Include the spreadsheet/graph in your multi-media presentation. (Click here for
a "Help" document for this task").
Insert a screenshot of your spreadsheet/graph below:
Step 5: Create and Share your Multi-Media Presentation
Create a multi-media presentation that includes information from Steps 1-4.
Your presentation should include:
A. Research gathered from Steps 1-4, including Career Cluster, Top 3, descriptions, skills, nature of work,
work conditions, education/skills, job outlook, salary/graph spreadsheet
comparison, and etc.
B. Citations
C. Creative Commons
D. Copyright friendly images
E. Anything else you feel adds to the presentation's visual appeal
Post your presentation to your online presence. NOTE: This presentation may be used in the "Video
Creation" Thing.
Web address where I posted my presentation: