Career One Stop is a government sponsored online website with useful employment information to all kinds of people. Not only that but it also includes self-assessments of many kinds. The examples are skills, interests, and work values assessments to help you find the kind of career best suited for you. After that, it also presents you with vital information about many careers which include about 900 job profiles, videos on specific careers, if any occupations are showing growth or are declining instead, helps you compare the careers, and shows you why knowing about industries is important when considering what occupation, you’d like to acquire. it gives you advice on how to plan your own career. It tells you the importance of setting objectives, goals, you want to achieve to take the steps necessary for your career. To better get this point through they also include examples of individual goals. And with this they also teach you how goals should be made, what it should include, and tips on how to achieve them. In addition, it shows you types of training you can do and helps you find affordable training for your specific situation which is part of the training plan they include too. Helping you find job openings in your exact state and explains you why and how to network. And if you’re having troubles with job applications it displays various kinds of them with examples. It guides you through practice interviews and how to negotiate. And even after all that information, it still provides you with more job tips including why you may not be getting results or if you should consider relocating to have a better chance of obtaining a job. Even gives you help that is locally near you with centers and programs. And finally, it aids you with support no matter what your conditions are like if you’re a young adult, person with disabilities, veteran etc. (CareerOneStop, 2018)
Next up is also another government sponsored website called O*Net Online which is filled with similar information from the U.S. Department of Labor. Helps find careers through the pairing of them as an industry, or a science are, etc. Also finds jobs that would go with your sets of skills. Or there’s also a tab specifically for veterans and how they can include their skills into civilian jobs. Another tab that shows modern technologies and to what careers they can be used in. And you also can see three different tabs when clicking “I want to be a…” named “I want to be…”, “I’ll know it when I see it.”, and “I’m not really sure.”. The “I want to be…” tab helps you find the job you want just with using a few words. Once you find the job you were looking for it exhibits the details of the job which are what they particularly do, the kind of personality a person might have for this job, technology and education you might need, if this occupation will have large job openings in in the future and its salary, knowledge, skills, and abilities you will need for that job and lastly even provides you with similar careers. The second tab helps you find the job through different industries and basically provides you with the same information once you have found what you have been looking for as the first tab. And in the last tab it gives you an interest quiz of sixty questions if you’re not sure what kind of career you’d like. There you can rate each question whether you like it, don’t like it, of if you’re unsure. At the end of the quiz it gives you statistics of what would be your strongest or weakest interest and their descriptions such as Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and or Conventional. After that you can choose and read about the distinct levels of job preparation. After you have chosen what kind of level of preparations it provides you with jobs with that level based on your scores. (National Center for O*NET Development, 2018)
Now I begin my journey of looking for career options for myself. I went to the Princeton website and did the career quiz that was provided. There were four colors used to classify you which were “Red” for Expediting, “Green” for Communicating, “Blue” for Planning, and “Yellow” for Administrating. After answers the questions it classified me in both interest and style as a “Blue”. “Blue” interest stands for people that like being in creative, thoughtful, and slow-paced relaxed activities. Which including teaching, writing, etc. And “Blue” style which means that they like to do their work in a way to help others and where they like to have enough time to reflect on their work before acting. Some the careers it showed me that said were best suited were Animator, Editor, Journalist, Psychologist and such. (Princeton Review, 2018) Which I thought to be very intriguing and great options, especially the Animator one, because of how I have mentioned before that I love to draw and express not only myself but also a message or a story.
Afterwards, I took the Interest Profiler and after answering all sixty questions my results were as followed: Social 38, Artistic 28, Enterprising 22, Realistic 8, Investigative 6, and lastly Conventional 5. And honestly, the quiz surprisingly describes me particularly good. I believe the social one is remarkably high as I consider my personality type as a mix of both introvert and extrovert. To add to that, I also love to help others as much as I can. The Artistic category would be second as I enjoy to creatively express myself for example drawing. Enterprising is third as I am more both of a thinker and a judger which means I use rational logic, analyze facts, and prefer planning things out to make decisions. And as for the last three which are Realistic, Investigative, and Conventional are not exactly high of interest to me.
Now I look through the Job Zones and chose the level of preparation I would personally want. After reading through each level of preparation I picked number four, high job preparation. Now most of the jobs presented to me were jobs I was really interested in some were diverse kinds of teachers, social workers, music focused, etc. But one that really interested me was the Recreational Therapist, they provide aid to other people through treatment activities to improve their mental and physical health. When looking through the options it showed me, I noticed that some were categorized as “Bright Outlook”, which meant that these specific occupations are predicted to quickly be growing in the future. It told me this is vital information that I should be taking into mind when looking for a job. Yet, I couldn’t find careers that were “Bright Outlook” and that they would attract me towards them. While, analyzing and looking through the assorted options I also noticed that show interest in types of psychology and anything that gives me the freedom to incorporate creativity in anyway.
The first career I chose is an Animator. The tasks needed to be completed by animators are creating stories, bring pictures to life, use computers to produce 2D and 3D images, and designing. The tools they use are computers, stylus, tablets specific for graphics, and cameras. Technology that Animators usually use are all kinds of software such as Graphics, designer, publishing, environment development, spreadsheet, video producing, and platform development. Knowledge that is needed for this specific career are how to communicate through the media, need techniques on how to design, and how electronics work. The skills necessary to become an animator is to be an active listener, being able to understand sentences/ paragraphs, having problem solving skills, being able to manage their time, coordinate with others. Furthermore, abilities animators must have are to express themselves and understand orally and to be a very visually oriented person. Their work activities include working closely with computers, communicate with others, gather information, and integrate creativity into their work. The main work contexts are discussing with other people, spend their entire day in a controlled environment, looking through emails and being on their phones daily, and have lots of freedom to make their own decisions. The interests someone in this career most probably will have are artistic and investigator based on the O*Net quiz. Along with their work style includes paying an immense amount of attention to many details, able to work/cooperate with other people, the ability to adapt to new conditions, and the will the achieve tasks. People in this field value having independence over their work, like to feel accomplished and appreciate working in good working conditions. Finally, related careers to Animators are Art Directors, Graphic Designers, Film and Video Editors, Technical Directors/Managers, and Director- Stage, Motion Pictures, Television and Radio.
The second career I chose for myself is a Psychologist.
