Home and Careers II Lesson 4 Career Finder Sachem Business Department

Career FinderBridges

www.cxonline.bridges.com

1. Log into Bridges using your school id and password.

2. Under the Explore Careers box, click “Start with a quick quiz”.

3. Read the introduction and start answering the questions by clicking Start Now.

What are your interests?Print This | Next >>

Answer the following questions about your interests. Consider what you most enjoy - or would enjoy being involved in - as you learn, work and play.

4. Click Next at bottom of screen and continue answering all the questions.

What are your skills?Print This | Next >>

Answer the following questions about your skills. Consider what things you are good at -- the natural or learned abilities that you perform well -- as you learn, work, and play.

5. After finishing all the questions, click next and the Bridges software will identity the careers that match your skills and interests. You will see 20 different careers.

Career suggestions for you

6. Click any career that looks interesting to you and compare its interests and skills to yours.

Trash CollectorData Entry ClerkFarm LaborerMinerCustodianModelWindow WasherBoxerHousecleanerMedical TranscriptionistVocational Forest WorkerMusic Copyist

7. Click any career that you are interested in and click where it says…More information about (Your Career)

Read the section that says What They Do

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Take your time and read carefully!

Please ask your teacher the meanings of words you do not know.

Home and Careers II Lesson 4 Career Finder Sachem Business Department

Classroom ActivityMy Three Favorite Careers

Name Siobhan Townsend Date March 16, 2011

After reviewing the list of careers selected for you, pick your top three choices.Put them in order with one being the best. For example: (1. Elementary School Teacher, 2. Construction Worker, 3. Lawyer)

1. __district attorney2. __private investigator

3. __musician

Now for each of the above explain what they do, how much money they earn in one year and what is the least amount of education needed to enter this field. Write in complete sentences using proper punctuation and spelling.

Career 1. _district attorney__

What do they do? (Minimum 2 sentences)__basically a lawyer how is a people lawyer help out people come to a decion by arguing a case. In other words a people’s lawyer.

How much $$ can you make in one year? ____$60,000 and $175,000

What is the minimal education required for this career? (For example, 2 yr college degree). What is recommended? (ie. Masters Degree)___the degree that is recommended for this job is a bachelors degree is needed

Career 2. __private investigator____________________________________

What do they do? __they solve mysteries solve crimes and start important court cases

How much $$ can you make in one year? ____$46,480

What is the minimal education required for this career? __the minimal education requirement is a diploma in law enforcement.Career 3. __musician

What do they do? _____they write songs compose songs and also start their own music corporation

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How much $$ can you make in one year? ___$58,822________________________________

What is the minimal education required for this career? __the minimal education requirement is extended training, private lessons, a true interest for music, and a university /college for the music and arts.___________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

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Home and Careers II Lesson 4 Career Finder Sachem Business Department

The What’s My Line Game

Each Group does the following:

1. Pick any one career from your list or the top 20.

2. Create four “Clues” that can help your classmates guess what your job is. Each clue should give more detail then the one before it and you can only have 2 clues from the “What they Do” Category. For example:

a. Where distinctive makeup. (What they do)b. Perform set routines that provide humor and exaggerated physical action.

(What they do)c. You can enter the business merely by practicing and getting experience

through performances. "Some people can just learn a few basics, such as make-up, and then naturally pick up the rest,”

d. Often play other roles in a circus (At a glance) Answer – CLOWN

3. Write your answers down and have the teacher review them.

4. Once all groups have their clues, each group will read the clues one at a time. All other groups will try to guess the career after each clue is read. NOBODY IS PERMITTED TO SHOUT OUT A GUESS. YOU MUST RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU WOULD LIKE GUESS. If you guess correctly, your group gets five pts, three pts or 1 pt. Depending on how many answers were read. If you shout out an answer, your group loses three pts.

5. The team with the most points at the end of the period wins.

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