What Does Your Future Hold?

1
What Does Your Future Hold?

• Interest Inventory
• Career Research

2
Meet Molly

• Molly recently graduated from Cloudyville High
  School
• She cant decide what to do next
• Should she go to college?
• What are Mollys options?

3
Life after High School

• What are you going to do after high school?
• Planning for ones future is not an easy task
• BUT it must be addressed to reach future success

4
What are Your Interests?

• Reading
• Building Fixing Things
• Law
• Math
• Science
• Music Arts

• Sports
• Helping People
• Managing Money
• Social Studies
• Nature
• Computers

Identifying personal interests at an early age is
important in choosing a future career
5
Leaving the Ground

• Molly is interested in social studies
• She logs onto the Career Cruising site
• http//careercruising.com

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Choose an Interest

• Molly clicks on the Social Studies button to
  learn more about careers in that area

7
Pick a Career

• Politician looks interesting to Mollyclick

8
Explore the Details

• Molly clicks on the links at the top of the page
  to explore the details of a Politician

What is this job like? How do you get ready?
How much does this job pay? How many jobs are
there? What about the future? Are there other
jobs like this? Where can you find more
information?
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Examine the Facts
The middle half of all legisl ators earned
between 13,180 and 38,540 a year in 2002. The
lowest-paid 10 percent earned less than 12,130.
The high est-paid 10 perce nt earned more than
69,380. Earnings of public admin istrators range
f rom little or nothing for a small town council
memb er to 400,00 0 a year for the President
of the United States.
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Record the Findings

• Molly neatly writes down interesting facts about
  a Politician
• Core tasks
• Working environment
• Earnings must determine the median
• (average salary)
• Education and training
• Attributes (skills needed)
• Career outlook

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Career Exploration Assignment

• Explore 3 different careers
• 3 Careers Career Cruising Website
• Record information about these careers
• Write neatly
• Summarize information
• Choose a final project option
• Give an oral presentation
• Make a brochure
• Create a movie