Consumer Education
Career Project

You Don't Know What You Want
to Be When You Grow Up?

Let this activity help you figure it out!

PART A:  Consider these questions: Who are you?  What is important to you?  What are you interested in?

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Complete the "pencil and paper" Career Inventory. As you do the "graphing your personal orientations" take note of where your strengths are found.

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Using the Internet, log on to Princeton Review's web site:  www.princetonreview.com. Follow the directions to complete this web site's inventory/career search tool. Print each page as you complete them.

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Complete the DeVry career inventory during the presentation from the DeVry representative.

PART B: What careers connect to your interests and values?

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From the Princeton Review's suggestions, select three possible careers that interest you.

PART C: What are the career profiles?

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Click on the links of careers from www.princetonreview.com

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Use the web site for Occupational Outlook Handbook to look up the careers of interest

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Use other web sites for career data

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Print the pages of information for each career to use later

 
Introduction Detailed Instructions Career Search Sheet Rubric

 

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Created by K. Blaskovich, J. Israel, C. LaMaster
Created 10/16/2000, Updated 10/15/2001, 3/5/2004
Updated by R. Hopkins, J. Israel, N. Ellman on 2/14/2005