Overview
Description:
- While this course doesn't have a final exam, you are required to submit a final research paper sharing your chosen career path. Think about this assignment as a conclusion of everything you have learned about and collected on yourself throughout this course. This is the only formal paper in the course, so treat it like an essay assignment with resources, citations, and formatting. This is the only assignment that is worth 40 points total.
Instructions:
- Choose a career that interests you or one that you are thinking about pursuing.
- This is a formal research essay; it must be (3) pages, double spaced, typed, Font #12.
- To help you with the content, here are some questions to get you started with your research.
- Describe the career. What are the typical job duties?
- Why are you interested in this career?
- Are certain personality types or skills required? How does your personality type match the career or not?
- How does your interests and values match this career?
- What are some advantages and disadvantages of working in this career?
- What type of environment will you be working in?
- What is a typical day, week, month, year?
- What is the pay?
- What is the job outlook?
- What are the educational requirements?
- What are related majors or majors needed for this career?
- What are the growth opportunities?
- What interesting facts did you discover?
- Since this is a research paper, you must include at least 4 online resources and a “Works Cited” page (total project is 4 pages).