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For this project, choose a career (Elementary school teacher) that interests you or one suggested by the career assessments done in this class. Begin this project by reading your DWYA Report in your E-Text, particularly the Potential Careers section. Second, log into www.careercruising.com (Links to an external site.) (User: grossmont, Password: college). Once you log in, click on Explore Careers located on the left. Begin reading information about the career you chose to research. Third, choose three additional sources of information (Career Cruising is NOT to be used here as a source of information – recommend O*Net, Occupational Outlook Handbook, and America’s Career InfoNet) to further research that career. Lastly, use the Career Research Paper Instructions attached below to guide your career research and content for your paper. You will need to answer the following ten questions in your paper: 1. Describe the career. What are the typical job duties? 2. What are your personality strengths that match this career? 3. Using the information from Chapter 3 about interests in your E-Text, how does this career match your interests (Realistic, Artistic, Social, Investigative, Conventional, and Enterprising)? 4. How does this career match your preferred lifestyle? 5. What are some advantages and disadvantages of working in this career? 6. What is the potential salary or earnings for this career? 7. What is the projected job growth or outlook for this career (Example: The job outlook for this career is that between 2012-2022 it is expected to grow much faster than average – 22% or higher, with projected job openings of 113,500.)? 8. What are the educational requirements? 9. What interesting facts did you discover? 10. List the three additional sources of information that you used. Read the two sample papers attached below to see what an excellent paper looks like.
