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Hello Everyone - welcome to Module 3 of our class. Let's take a look at the activities
for this week. Before we take a look at these activities, please note that this week I will
actually be out of town. I will be checking my email as often as I can, so if you have
questions, please do feel free to send me an email, but it may be some hours before
I am able to email you back, but I will do my best to stay on top of my email during
this week. So, let's look at our activities for this week. I'm going to click on the link
for Module 3 activities, and here's what we need to do: first of all, in your textbook,
you need to read chapter 3, which discusses how to search for information about your occupation
or career, then we have a discussion that we'll look at in just a moment, and another
piece of the Career Development Portfolio. So, let's look at these assignments for this
week. OK . . . Discussion 5 . . . Discussion 5 asks you to visit Ferguson's Career Guidance
Center. You looked at this database last week, but we're going to go back to this database
this week, and this time I need you to search the database and look for the job profiles
for your career. Find a source that covers your career and locate the following information:
you need to find the salary range, what are the employment prospects for this career,
what skills and traits are needed to be successful in this career, what is the work environment
like, and what is the required education or training. So, enter this information into
your discussion post, and then answer the following questions: Do these items match
your expectations for this career? And I need you to write at least 4 sentences to discuss
this information. Very often, once people do this research and they learn a little bit
more, especially about the salary range or the employment prospects for the career that
they have chosen, they're often surprised that either the salary range doesn't match
what they had expected, or they have chosen a career that it may be very difficult to
find a job in. So, look through this information very carefully and let's have some good discussion
about what you find. So, that's what we need to do for discussion 5. Now, let's look at
activity 2 for the Career Development Portfolio. You'll want to spend some time on this to
make sure that you complete everything. Now this is sort of a self-analysis assignment,
but it will be very helpful to you. So, read the instructions, and you will see that for
the first part, since this assignment is used in both the face to face and the online class,
you have the option of either drawing and writing out by hand the information for the
first part and then scanning that, or -- and this will probably be easier for you -- just
do the activity in a Word document, and maybe use columns or a little table or something
to make the two columns that you need to do, and follow these instructions. Then once you've
done that, there are some questions here that you will need to answer to go along with that.
So, that's the second part of the Career Development Portfolio. Now, remember, as I mentioned,
I'll be out of town this week, but do feel free to email me, and I'll get back to you
as quickly as I can if you have questions. I hope you enjoy this part of the class. Thanks.