Career Exploration

Each student will choose his or her area of interest within the discipline. You will complete a report related to employment opportunities, issues and trends, the population with whom he or she would be working, typical beginning salary levels, educational requirements/training, and the advantages/disadvantages of working in this specific area. Your headings and information should include:

This should be 1-2 pages.

**You will also include this information in your Externship presentation to share with other students.

What to include

Points possible

Job title and graduate degree or advanced training required (be very thorough; this should be 1-2 paragraphs)

10

Pay ranges

10

What you learned that you did not already know and how you will find

externships/internships that lead you to learn more about this career path

10

Professional references (where you found this information; academic and professional references included though for this one, you can use references that are not academic, such as Career Builder or Indeed)

10

Grammar/spelling

10

Total

50