Career Zone Reality Check

Today we will continue thinking about the next step after high school.  Where will you live?  What type of lifestyle will you have?  What is your long term outlook?

1. Go to the California Career Zone Reality Check web site
2. Choose the living situation that works best for you and click "Next"
3. Select as many services as you will use and click "Next"
4. Choose your eating style and click "Next"
5. Choose your mode of transportation and click "Next"
6. Select your clothing allowance and click "Next"
7. Select your health care and click "Next"
8. Choose your entertainment style and click "Next"
9. Choose your "personal upkeep" style and click "Next"
10. Select as many miscellaneous items as you like and click "Next"
11. Choose the amount you would like to put into savings and click "Next"
12. Now you can click the "Find occupations that match this annual salary" button
13. Select the amount of education you plan to have
14. Select an "occupation cluster" that mosts interest you and click "Find Occupations"
15. See if any occupations meet your selections (you may have to click "Back" and change choices)

• Open a Microsoft Word document and add your name and period
• Copy your city, necessary salary, and career results and paste them to the Word document
• Write a paragraph discussing your careers and whether any of them match the careers from your previous two personality / interest surveys.

REMINDER: Tomorrow we will type up the results of the "Ask Someone Who's Been There" survey.

Job Interview Strategies for Teens

Open a new Microsoft Word document:

Important: You will receive 10 points for each half of this assignment.  Do NOT let anybody else copy your answers because both parties will receive a zero on their assignment.

Read the article, "Job Interview Strategies for Teens: Part I -- Interview Preparation".

1. Add your name and title (Interview Strategies I: Interview Preparation) to your new document
2. Summarize each "bullet point" [in your own words] in one or two sentences to create a list of strategies
   Note: Your list can be either a bulleted list or a numbered list

Read the article, "Job Interview Strategies for Teens: Part II -- During and After the Interview"

1. Add a title for a new section (Interview Strategies II: During and After the Interview)
2. Again, summarize each "bullet point" [in your own words]
   Note: Your list can be either a bulleted list or a numbered list

When you are finished, make sure your document is formatted correctly, has been spell-checked, and would be a useful component in the "preparation" section of your portfolio.  

Finally, Print your document and turn it in.

Begin Personality Survey

Last week we completed an "interest survey" which helped point us toward jobs that we may be interested in.  Today we are going to take a personality test based on Carl Jung's theory of psychological types and the personality research of Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Cook Briggs.

• Please go to: http://www.mypersonality.info/
• Sign up for an account and then click "Current Page"
  Use your school-related email address
• Click Take the Personality Test (then click Basic Personality Type Test)
• Take the test by answering the questions as best as you can.  If you aren't sure about an answer, choose the one that feels most correct.
• Click "Finish Test" to view results.
• Click on "____ Overview" (mine says "INFJ Overview")
• Create a new Microsoft Word document
• Type your name and a title (I used "INFJ - The Confidant" from the top of the page)
• Copy the top paragraph explaining your personality type and paste into your Word document
• Copy your "Details" [found at the left side of the page] and paste into your Word document
• Copy your "Career Matches" and paste into your Word document
• Copy three quotes from the "About the ____" section and paste into your Word document
• Format your document so that it looks nice and is well organized
• Save your document as "Personality Types"
• Print and turn in your document

After you have completed your Personality Assessment, please work on your typing.

25 Most Common Interview Mistakes

Today we will be working on the 25 Most Common Interview Mistakes.  I will be going over a PowerPoint presentation (view it here) and you will be typing them in Microsoft Word as a bulleted (or numbered) list for inclusion in your portfolio.  At the end of class, please print and turn in your copy.  After I grade these, you will get them back to put in the "Interview Prep" section of your portfolio.

Career Assessment / Microsoft Word

Today we are going to begin exploring some of our Interests by completing a computerized interest profiler.  We will be using the results to create a Microsoft Word document with a bulleted list, a numbered list, formatting, and saving/printing.

The difficult thing about this project is that you will be switching back and forth between three windows:

• This page (GriffsClass.com)
• The Career Interest Profiler page
• Microsoft Word

Instructions:

• Go to California Career Zone and click on "Sign In" at the top of the page... then click the "Create an account" tab.  Fill in the required information and click "Create Account".
• Go back to the main California Career Zone page and click "Go" next to "Start a new Interest Profiler:"
• Answer questions 1-180 [(L : Like), (? : Unsure), or (D : Dislike)] -- there are 12 questions per page.
• Open Microsoft Word and add your name, period, and a title ("California Career Zone Survey").
• Type your top three interest areas (and your score for each) in a numbered list.
• Move your mouse over your top three interests and see what it says about your choices.
• Add a brief summary for each of your three job types.
• Click "View Occupations" on the bottom of the screen.
• Look at the occupations that are suggested for you. Note that the occupations with a TV/monitor symbol have movie clips that you can watch -- but you will need headphones.
• Type your top 10 occupations in a numbered list (in order).
• Write one paragraph about what you think about these results. Do you agree or disagree? Are there any surprises? Are there any jobs that interest you which you never considered before?
• Insert a clip art showing a career that fits your results [or your desired career].
• Select 2-4 occupations that interest you by clicking in the boxes then click "Compare Selected" at the bottom of the list.
• Write a brief paragraph about how they compare to each other: salary, projected openings, etc.
• Save your Microsoft Word document to your ThawSpace, print it, and turn it in.
• Click the "Logout" button at the top of California Career Zone. We can return to our results later by using our Login information.

Remember, this is just an indicator of what sorts of occupations you might be interested in.  If you are positive about the direction you want to go in your life, follow that goal.

Note: When you have completed this project, please focus on any typing lessons that you are missing.  Several students are finished with all 20 lessons, most are about half way (on lesson 11-14), and several have only done 1 or 2.  Please get these completed so that we can take our final typing test.