April 4 Career Management

Learning Goals:
Creating part of your digital career portfolio
Exploring OOH Occupational Outlook Handbook

Bellringer:
Work on any unfinished work:
Create Study guide from missed CFA and vocabulary questions
Finish Linkedin Prework
Finish Career/College brochure
Understand Career Clusters- complete 16 clusters and multiple choice questions on worksheet
Library Research

Announcements:
Make sure you have saved your picture to your lunch number file. You may email it to yourself and then open your email in class TO SAVE the picture to your lunch number. If you do not have a scanned picture bring a picture in and you can scan it at school. Remember it needs to be a business appropriate picture, with proper dress and just you.

Guided Exercise:
Miss W will help everyone create a linkedin profile.
In order for Miss W to walk around and help she needs a volunteer to type their linkedin information on the Smartboard. Candy reward for volunteer.

Independent Exercise:
Students will start to explore the Occupational Outlook Handbook web site http://www.bls.gov/ooh/

Create a new PowerPoint called OOH which stands for Occupational Outlook Handbook

Title the 1st slide "OOH- Occupational Outlook Handbook" and copy this information to the 1st slide
"The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH )—updated every 2 years by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)—is a career guide at http://www.bls.gov/ooh that describes, for hundreds of occupations,
What workers do on the job
Work environment
The education and training and other qualifications needed to enter the occupation
Pay
Expected employment change and job prospects
Similar occupations
Contacts for more information" http://www.bls.gov/ooh/

In the Select by section
We are going to be looking at the Growth Rate (Projected) option
Try to find careers that sound interesting to you.
If you do not know what a career is then click on the link with its name.

Choose the Show 100 entries column
Title the 2nd slide "Declining careers"
Click on declining and list 5 jobs that are declining, have a clipart image for them, explain what the job is, what education is needed and explain why you think they are declining. For example, desktop publishers are declining maybe because everyone can create their own documents and PowerPoints on a computer.
Do NOT use this example

Title the 3rd slide "Growing careers"
Click on 29 percent or faster growth and list 2 jobs that are growing, have a clipart image for them, explain what the job is, what education is needed and explain why you think they are growing. For example, audiologists are growing maybe because everyone is getting old and losing their hearing.
Do NOT use this example.

Click on 20 to 28 percent or faster growth and list 2 jobs that are growing, have a clipart image for them, explain what the job is, what education is needed and explain why you think they are growing.

Click on 10 to 19 percent or faster growth and list 1 job that is growing, have a clipart image for it, explain what the job is, what education is needed and explain why you think it is growing.

Title the 4th slide "High Paying Jobs"
Under 2010 Median Pay click on the $75,000 range and list 1 job that is in that range, have a clipart image for it and explain what the job is and what education is needed .

Under 2010 Median Pay click on the $55,000 range and list 1 job that is in that range, have a clipart image for it and explain what the job is and what education is needed .

Under 2010 Median Pay click on the $35,000 range and list 1 job that is in that range, have a clipart image for it and explain what the job is and what education is needed .

Title the 5th slide "Low Paying Jobs"
Under 2010 Median Pay click on the $25,000 range and list 1 job that is in that range, have a clipart image for it and explain what the job is and what education is needed .

Under 2010 Median Pay click on the less than $25,000 range and list 1 job that is in that range, have a clipart image for it and explain what the job is and what education is needed .