Overview of Career
Exploration
Overview of Career
Exploration
This online career course is intended to guide an individual through the complex array of career choices . The use of standardized career testing analyzes an individual's interests, personality, and abilities. The course is designed for the college student, but the curious, as well as the professional, will find the information useful in career planning.. The student will be expected to select three occupational areas which are compatible with the results of the standardized testing. . The student earns points which equate to a grade point by completing individual assignments, a project and a final.
1. Identify various theories of career choice.
2. Analyze Personality orientation, Interests and Skills and Abilities and show how
they relate to a career choice.
3. Examine the ways in which the individual's values, interests, abilities, and career
choices are consistent with the test results.
4. Locate information available from the Guide to Occupational Exploration, [
GOE] Dictionary of Title [DOT], and the Outlook Handbook [OOH].
5. Select three top career areas of interest.
6. Analyze the job market projection in three career area (s) of interest.
7. Interview three employers in the career area of interest..
8. Prepare a written final project.
9. Write a job Resume
10. Complete a Final.·
Tasks
Individual lessons specify the tasks, the completion dates, and accumulated points which equate to a letter grade.
Evaluation Criteria
To receive full credit for assignments
* send email written in complete standard English sentences and answer all of the questions posed in the lesson assignments,
* give definitions of technical words or concepts used ,
* illustrate by giving examples,
*cite the sources used in answering questions, and
*provide reasoning when giving your own opinion.