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Researching a career . . .
From Reading to Writing In John Cheever’s short
story “The Opportunity,” Elise envisions a career as
an actress, but her mother chides her to “get this
idea of going on the stage out of your head.” Career
decisions are among the most important decisions
people make.
Researching a career . . .
You can begin thinking about your own career by
researching jobs that interest you. Writing a career
search report can help you examine your goals and
uncover facts about a particular career.
B a s i c s i n a B o x
RUBRIC Standards for Writing
A successful career search report should
• discuss your career goals
• describe your talents, skills, and interests
• focus on one or more specific careers
• report on factual aspects of each career
• mention sources of factual information
• examine the advantages and disadvantages of each career and weigh their importance to you
Writing Your Career Search Report 1 Prewriting
Go to your local library and browse
through the Occupational Outlook
Handbook to find out about careers you
are interested in. This book contains
information on hundreds of job titles. After
you have found one or two careers to
research, follow these steps.
Planning Your Career Search Report
1. Examine your goals. Take a good look at yourself. What are you looking for in a job or career? What are your most important goals?
2. Examine your talents, skills, and interest. What do you do well? What activities do you enjoy most? Make a list of your skills, and then think about which skills you’d like to use on the job. For which of the jobs and careers you choose to research are your skills most suited?
Planning Your Career Search Report
3.Research the careers. Use any of the following methods: Browse through books such as the
Occupational Outlook Handbook to learn more about the careers that interest you.
Interview people in the careers that you are exploring.
Contact professional, trade, or union associations that represent each career. These groups often produce brochures about job opportunities.
Planning Your Career Search Report
4. Record your findings. Make a chart in which you list the pertinent information about each possible career:
responsibilities
education or training required
outlook for employment
salary range
advantages and disadvantages
Planning Your Career Search Report
5. Match careers with your goals and skills.
How well do the careers that you identified
match your goals and skills? Choose the
career that best suits you and use it as the
subject of your report.
Writing Your Career Search Report2 Drafting
Begin your report by presenting
information about yourself or by
identifying the career you are
considering. You may wish to include
your career goals, skills, and interests.
Present the basic facts you learned
about your career.
Writing Your Career Search Report2 Drafting
Examine the advantages and
disadvantages of the career in light of
your goals and skills.
Sum up what you learned about
yourself, the career, and its suitability
for you.
Writing Your Career Search Report3 Revising
Target Skill
LOGICAL ORDER OF DETAIL
As you revise your career report, check
to see that the ideas in each paragraph
are presented in an order that makes
sense. Use transitions such as next,
since, in contrast, and on the other hand
to show clear relationships between
ideas.
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