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: law and public safety
View the video about your top Career Cluster at Careerinfonet.org
Video Name: private detective and investigators
Video Link: http://wpc.2a70.edgecastcdn.net/002A70/CareerVideos/33-9021.00.flv
Citation Information: "Private
Detective and Investigators."
Http://www.careeronestop.org/Videos/CareerandClusterVideos/careerand-cluster-videos.aspx. N.p., n.d. Web.
Include information about the top Career Cluster that matches your personality/skills/interests
in your multi-media presentation.
Additional information
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
Career 1
Detectives and inspectors
Tasks
Career 2
Social services worker
Police fire ambulance dispatcher
Organized efforts to advance human
welfare; social work.
used in the plural.
Police, fire, and ambulance
dispatchers work in an
emergency communication
center, often called a Public
Safety Answering Point (PSAP).
Helping people
Helping others the help they need
Knowledge and understanding
Most police, fire, and ambulance
dispatchers have a high school
diploma or GED. Additional
requirements vary. Many states
require dispatchers to become
certified.
Services, such as free school
lunches, provided by a government
for its disadvantaged citizens. Often
Interests
Knowing that I’m doing something to
Career 3
help out others and do what’s right
Education
Training and going to different
programs
Knowledge
Becoming a detective is not an easy
process and rarely is an officer
promoted to detective with 2 years
Empathy,Boundary Setting,Active
Listening,Organization,Relaxation
and De-compression
theory and techniques
required to compose, produce,
and perform
Cooperation Persuasion
theory and techniques
required to compose, produce,
and perform
on. Most officers build their
experience in patrol for at least 3-5
years. Then move on to become a
bike officer, school resource officer or
other specialty that is less competitive
but where they can build their
investigative skills
Skills
An good eye and knowledge
Other:___________
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
Nature of Work
Career 1
Solving problems public
services
Career 2
Career 3
Depending on environment, making others Depending on what call you get,
comfortable
need to be calm and collective
Working Conditions
Depending on the environment
your working in
work to advance the well-being of
children, young people, their families
and communities
Job Outlook
2010-20, 21% (Faster than Social workers employed by district
average). Employment
health boards typically earn between
$45,000 and $62,000 a year.
In a big room with a head set with
a not so calm person on the other
line
The median annual wage of
police, fire, and ambulance
dispatchers was $35,370 in
May 2010.
Step 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: