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   Milepost 1:   Exploring My Career Interests

At this first stop, you'll be able to see actual careers and learn about careers of interest!

First, let's review from the previous section what careers you want to explore.  Do you want to look at specific career titles, or do you want to look at broad  career clusters (categories) and see careers listed under each category?

To look up specific career titles, you'll SEARCH BY OCCUPATION in the following exercise.

To look at career listings by category, you can select from these occupational categories in the following exercise:

We're ready!  Let's go to the following exercise to learn about careers of interest!

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Career Profile Exercise

In this exercise, we'll be heading to a web site that will enable you to learn about careers or career clusters of interest.  There's just one instruction....

Before you go to the web site,  print copies of the  CAREER PROFILE FORM  below.  

As you read about careers, fill out and complete a separate Career Profile Form for each career that strongly interests you.  This information will be important to keep and take along with you to the next Mileposts.

If you have time, be sure to also visit the  Additional Career Exploration Resources section that follows below.  Links are provided to connect you to additional career information resources!  You'll find a wealth of helpful career information at these sites.

Do you have your CAREER PROFILE FORMS ready?  Let's go to the web site.  Have fun exploring careers!

Go to:      The Occupational Outlook Handbook

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Additional Career Exploration Resources:

Major Decisions   (Career options by major)

     Click on a major and see the major's career possibilities.

JobProfiles.org     (Employee profiles)

     Meet employees working in all types of careers.  Each employee profile provides
     insights into the employee's background, stresses and rewards on the job, future
     challenges, and advice.

America's Career InfoNet

     This web site provides information on hundreds of careers.  Search by industry
     category or occupational titles.

Career Resource Center 

     The Center provides an extensive index of career-related web sites.  Includes
     7,500 links!

Oregon Labor Market Information

     This site provides information on jobs and their outlooks, wages, skills and education
     needed, and other job-related information.

Washington State Labor Market Information

     This site provides labor market information by area and type, online publications, 
     current employment information, career information, and links.

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CAREER PROFILE FORM

Career Title:  _________________________________

Job Duties:   (List job duties and responsibilities)

Physical and Mental Demands:   (List physical and mental job demands)

Working Conditions:   (List and describe work conditions)

Where People are Employed:   (List places and locations)

Education and Training Requirements:   (List requirements)

Personal Skills Needed:   (List personal skills needed, like being friendly, looking
                                                 professional, being organized....)

Functional Work Skills Needed:   (List functional skills needed, like lifting, doing
                                                               precision work by hand, using computers....)

The job is expected to:   (check)

___  Grow much faster than average
___  Grow faster than average
___  Grow about as fast as average
___  Grow more slowly as average
___  Little or no change
___  Decline

or have...   (check)

___  Very good to excellent opportunities
___  Good or favorable opportunities
___  May face or can expect keen competition

Pay range:    _________________________________
Median (average) wage:    ______________________

Similar career titles:   (List career titles)

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