Links to Career Interview Questions

Background Questions and introductory scripts. Click here.

Career Path and Opportunity Questions. Click here.

Career and Advice Questions. Click here.

1/29 HW 10 IRP week 5 and try to complete your book

Also, try to set up your career interview. Get in touch with your person and try to find a convenient time to talk later this week or early next week.

1/28 HW #9 Internship article and write up

Read the short article given in class about the importance of internships and complete the assigned reflection. Click here for the handout if you need it.

1/24 HW 8 IRP week 4 and read!

Spend a good deal of time this weekend reading. Then write your IRP week 4 response. See the resources section of this blog if you need a link to the IRP questions.

1/22 HW 7 Peer interview write-up

Use the notes from your peer interview today and write an "article" about what you discovered about them. Be specific and use at least two quoted lines or phrases. Your write up must be at least one-page, typed and double-spaced.

1/17 HW 6 IRP week 3; READ A LOT! And complete make-up work

Use the long weekend to catch up on reading, and complete IRP week 3.

1/15 HW 5 List five people you know or know of who you could interview about their career; Study for first vocab quiz!

Be sure to give their name, relationship to you, and career

1/14 Career power point due Tuesday! Be ready to present!

1/10 HW 4 IRP 2, both questions! Read your independent book!

1/8 HW 3: Complete power point slides for 2nd career

Complete all required information and format them on slides for the second of the three careers you are researching. Here is the handout with the overview of your project.  Check out the CNN Salary Wizard to determine the average salary for the careers you are researching.

1/7 HW 2: Complete power point slides for first career

Complete all required information and format them on slides for the first of the three careers you are researching. Here is the handout with the overview of your project.  Check out the CNN Salary Wizard to determine the average salary for the careers you are researching.

Warm Up: Career Test

Go to this link: http://www.123test.com/career-test/ and take the career assessment to determine a list of careers that might be of interest to you. Record your results, as we will take more of these during the week.

The Holland Codes is a system to classify jobs into job categories, interest clusters, or work personality environments. In the Holland Model, these categories represent work personalities.

The work personalities are:

• Realistic people are usually assertive and competitive, and are interested in activities requiring motor coordination, skill and strength.  People with a realistic orientation usually prefer to work a problem through by doing something, rather than talking about it, or sitting and thinking about it.  They like concrete approaches to problem solving, rather than abstract theory.  They tend to be interested in scientific or mechanical rather than cultural and aesthetic areas.  They like to work with THINGS.
• Investigative people like to think and observe rather than act, to organize and understand information rather than to persuade.  They tend to prefer individual rather than people oriented activities.  They like to work with DATA.
• Artistic people are usually creative, open, inventive, original, perceptive, sensitive, independent and emotional. .  They do not like structure and rules, like tasks involving people or physical skills, and are more likely to express their emotions than others.  They like to think, organize and understand artistic and cultural areas.  They like to work with IDEAS and THINGS.  
• Social people seem to satisfy their needs in teaching or helping situations.  They are different than R and I Types because they are drawn more to seek close relationships with other people and are less apt to want to be really intellectual or physical.  They like to work with PEOPLE.
• Enterprising people are good talkers, and use this skill to lead or persuade others.  They also value reputation, power, money and status, and will usually go after it.  They like to work with PEOPLE and DATA
• Conventional people like rules and regulations and emphasize self-control.  They like structure and order, and dislike unstructured or unclear work and interpersonal situations.  They place value on  reputation, power, or status.  They like to work with DATA.

Session 3 HW 1: IRP book and week 1 response

Due Monday, Jan. 7.  This is a short session so you must choose your book quickly and get going.