Career Presentation Project
Objective: To demonstrate expertise in MS Office by completing a career exploration project.
Assignment: Explore a career on various websites, and create a custom PowerPoint slide show about the
career. Include information about the career, how you might go about attaining that career, educational
requirements and financial earnings. Take a career interest inventory and write a one page MLA-style essay on
the results of your interest inventory, and create an excel spreadsheet complete with charts.
Part 1: Career Interest Inventory paper
Complete a Career Interest Survey online and summarize the results in a word document. Format the paper in
MLA style and address the following in your write-up:
1. Name of website where you completed the survey.
2. Sample questions from the survey
3. Provide a summary of the results. Take a screen shot of the results and place the image in your essay.
4. A discussion of whether or not you feel the results were accurate or reflective of your interests.
To find additional information about your career, here are some suggested Internet sources:
Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
Career Cruising
http://www.careercruising.com/
America’s Career Infonet
http://www.acinet.org/acinet/
Search jobs and profiles
http://www.jobprofiles.org/profiles.htm
Collegboard
http://www.collegeboard.com/csearch/majors_careers/
profiles/index.html
Careership
http://mappingyourfuture.org/planyourcareer/career
ship/index.cfm
Career Zone
http://www.cacareerzone.org/
Career Search Database
http://tcids.tbr.edu/show_all.php
Monster.com
http://jobprofiles.monster.com/
Career Voyages
http://www.careervoyages.gov/students-main.cfm
Part 2: Career PowerPoint Presentation
1. Follow the guidelines in the outline on the next page to create your slideshow.
2. Apply various formatting to the slides and add animations and transitions to enhance the slideshow.
3. Add a hyperlink to the last slide that opens your excel spreadsheet.
Part 3: Get Real Excel Spreadsheet
Open the ‘Get Real” spreadsheet and follow the instructions to keep track of your daily expenses and earnings from
playing the simulation game.
Slide 1: Title Slide
Include your career choice, your period
number and your name
Slide 2: Industry Analysis
Provide insight into the industry which your
career belongs to.
Examples:
 Healthcare
 Education
 Financial
 Legal
Slide 3: What You’ll DO
Give us some details about the job description
and duties
Examples:
• Handle records of individuals or families
• Acquire and arrange record
• Format & edit the records to be used by
wider audiences
• Set an acquisition policy
• Plan for storage space & equipment
• Plan fundraisers
• Unique information
Slide 5: Where You’ll Work
Examples:
• Corporations
• Religious Organizations
• Research firms
• Privately funded historic sites
• Educational institutions
• State & local governments
Give names of local known companies as an
example. (JPL, Nike, EarthLink, Avon,
etc.)
Slide 6: Traits Required
Examples:
• Wide variety of interests
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to organize time well
• Love detail
• High standard of ethics
• Communications skills
Slide 7 : Pluses of the Career
Slide 4: Education/Training require d and
• Job satisfaction
Earnings
• Help Others
Education Required
• Satisfying feeling of bringing order out of
Colleges/Universities where education
chaos
or training can be received for the
• Preserve pieces of the past
career
Examples:
Slide 8: Minuses of he Career
• Broad knowledge of the humanities,
liberal arts & history
• This career lacks the influence &
• Master's in Library & Information Science
financial security of business
• Time needed to fully arrange & describe
Earnings
records can be daunting
Examples:
• Technology can be headache & source of
• Archival professionals: $20,000 to
anxiety
$70,000 Annually
• Editors: $25,000 to $85,000
Slide 9: Future outlook
•
Describe the future outlook of the career
Slide 10: Conclusion
Find a current job opening in your field in
the Los Angeles or surrounding are and
include a hyperlink to the web page with
the details of the job. Also, include an
action button to your excel spreadsheet.