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Activities and Cases 13.4 Evaluating Your Qualifications

Your Task: Prepare four worksheets that inventory your qualifications in these areas: employment; education; capabilities and skills; and awards, honors, and activities. Use active verbs when appropriate and specific nouns that describe job titles and skills.

1. Employment. Being with your most recent job or internship. For each position list the following information: employer; job title; dates of employment; and three to five duties, activities, or accomplishments. Emphasize activities related to your job goal. Strive to quantify your achievements.
2. Education. List degrees, certificates, and training accomplishments. Include courses, seminars, and skills that are relevant to your job goal. Calculate your grade point average in you major.
3. Capabilities and skills. That all capabilities you for the job you seek. Use words and phrases such as skilled, competent, trained, experienced, and ability to. Be sure to include nouns that describe keywords relevant to your career field. Also list five or more qualities or interpersonal skills necessary for success in your field. Write action statements demonstrating that you possess some of these qualities. Empty assurances aren't good enough; try to show evidence (Developed teamwork skills by working with a committee of eight to produce a ...).
4. Awards, honors, and activities. Explain any awards that the reader might misunderstand. List campus, community, and professional activities that suggest you are well-rounded individual or possess traits relevant to your target job.

13.5 Choosing a Career Path

Many people know amazingly little about the work done in various occupations and the training requirements.

Your Task: Use the online Occupational Outlook Handbook athttp://www.bls.gov/ooh, prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), to learn more about an occupation of your choice. This is the nation's premier source for career information. The career profiles featured here cover hundreds of occupations and describe what people in these occupations do, the work environment, how to get these jobs, salaries, and more. You can browse categories including highest paying, fastest growing, and most new jobs.

Find the description of a position for which you could apply in two to five years. Learn about what workers do on the job, working conditions, training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects. Copy and paste the description to this Word document from the Occupation Outlook Handbook that describes employment in the area in which you are interested. Paste the job description below.

13.6 Searching the Job Market

Where are the jobs? Even though you may not be in the market at the moment, become familiar with the kinds of available positions because job awareness should be an important part of your education.

Your Task: Clip or print a job advertisement or announcement from either (a) the classified section of a newspaper, (b) a job board on the Web, (c) a company website, or (d) a professional association listing. Select an advertisement or announcement describing the kind of employment you are seeking now or plan to seek when you graduate. Paste this advertisement below.