Career exploration
- 2. What do you want to be when you grown up???
- 3. Choose Wisely • If you work: ▫ 8-hour day ▫ age of 22 to the age of 62 ▫ never work overtime ▫ 400,000 hours at your job That’s a long time to be miserable, so it’s really important to choose a career that you will enjoy.
- 4. Career Clusters • 16 different clusters • Help you connect: ▫ What you learn in school ▫ What you already know ▫ Knowledge and skills you need to succeed on the job • Let’s Look at the Clusters!
- 5. Which one is your best match? • Career Cluster Survey http://intranet.matcmadison.edu/career-assess/ Open your student-teacher drive for the link!
- 6. Digital Portfolio Project • Using Weebly page • Different components to make up your portfolio
- 7. Technology and Careers • How many jobs use technology today? • 68% of working Americans use a computer at work • 84% say it’s essential for their job • 34% have access to Internet at work • 63% say it’s essential for their job
- 8. Examples • Advertising Managers ▫ Print Shop, Sound Engineering, CorelDraw, Photoshop, Digital Photography and Graphic Design, Video Editing, , Animation, Photo Editing, and Web Page Design • Architects ▫ CADD (Computer-Aided Design and Drafting)
- 9. • Carpenters ▫ 2-D (blueprint) and 3-D layout of a house. • Cartoonists and Animators ▫ Paint and Animation, Digital Photography and Graphic Design, Web Page Design, and Video Editing • Engineers (General) ▫ produce and analyze designs; to simulate and test how a machine, structure, or system operates; to generate specifications for parts; and to monitor product quality and control process efficiency
- 10. • Musicians (singers and band members) ▫ edit their recordings using computer software or use technology in place of an instrument, creating a "synthesized" instrument • Photographers ▫ raw image has been transferred to a computer, photographers can use processing software to crop or modify the image and enhance it through color correction and other specialized effects
- 11. What technology is required for your career?? • Computers ▫ What types of programs (word processing, spreadsheets, database, CAD, etc.) ▫ Internet (research, online apps, etc.) • Machines ▫ Digital ▫ Computer-aided • What do you think would be helpful to your career?