WebQuest on Career Search: “On My Own…”

1. WebQuest on Career Search: “On My Own…” Designed by Carol Keith

2. Steps In The Process • Introduction • Task • Process • Evaluation • Conclusion • Credits • Teacher Page

3. Introduction YOU MADE IT!

4. Task • You are using the internet to take online quizzes, to do database searches, do a virtual interview and find a job.

5. Process • Career interests • Personality type • Learning Style Assessment • Occupational Sort • Explore occupations • Compare to the fastest growing occupations • Select one occupation to investigate AND be sure to use different resources • Collect information to prepare your report • Prepare six specific questions to ask in an informational interview • Research Help Wanted Ads • Take a virtual interview • Write your report • Prepare your multimedia presentation

6. Career interests http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/indes.html

7. Personality type • Career Interests Game • http://www.advisorteam.com/ciss/ • Jung Typology Test • Myer's Briggs Adaptation • Campbell Interest and Skills Survey at http://www.advisorteam.com/ciss

8. Learning Style Assessment • Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire • descriptions

9. Occupational Sort • Use Georgia Career Information Search (GCIS) first. It is found on www.gcic.peachnet.edu. Our User ID is fultonk12 and our password is gcis354a.

10. Explore occupations • Use GCIS or www.whatdotheydo.com

11. Compare to the fastest growing occupations • http://www.adin.org/lmi/usafast.htm • Top 10 Forecasts from Outlook 2004 http://wfs.org/forecasts.htm

12. Select one occupation to investigate (be sure to use different resources) • GCIS • Occupational Outlook Handbook and Bureau of Labor Statistics http://stats.bls.gov/home.htm • The 2002-2003 Occupational Outlook Handbooks • News Items from the U S Department of Labor • Keyword Search of Bureau of Labor Statistics Web Pages • Career library at JobWeb • America's Career InfoNet • Exploring Occupations from the Student Counseling and Career Centre at University of Manitoba • Careers Online Virtual Careers Show

13. Collect information to prepare your report Your report should include information on the following topics: • training or education required for the career • prospects for the future in this career, • expected salary range, • unexpected positive or negative aspects of the career • NOTE: Remember, your class presentation is to be a multimedia (PowerPoint or some other presentation software) report. While you are collecting information about the career you chose, make sure you collect images too.

14. Prepare six specific questions to ask in an informational interview

15. Research Help Wanted Ads • Determine where you will want to work. • FREE Zip City Phone at http://www.mailersoftware.com/keywordsearch/zipcode.htm • America’s Job Bank at http://www.ajb.dni.us/index.html • www.ajc.classified.com

16. Other job search engines • Monster.com • HotJobs.com • Thingamajob.com

17. Take a virtual interview http://interview.monster.com/#

18. Write your report • Write about the career of your choice, which you chose it, what it will take to be successful…i.e., skills, aptitudes, education, etc. • From the self-analysis involved, tell me about your discoveries. • Include the six questions you would ask in an informational interview. • Include the help wanted add you selected. • Tell me about your virtual interview. • In learning more about yourself, would you still pick the same help wanted ad/career? • What surprised you about your career that you didn’t know before doing this WebQuest?

19. Prepare your multimedia presentation

20. Evaluation • grading rubric (see attached) • This is a major project grade.

21. Conclusion • This activity was designed to give you the feel of how to use the Internet to research a new career and to get to know yourself better. • Some useful career sources to remember or revisit are: • The Occupational Outlook Handbook Index from A to Z • Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Information for Kids • NationJob Online Jobs Database • InternetJobs has a list of top ten employment-related web sites

22. Credits • Bernie Dodge’s WebQuest Page at http://webquest.sdsu.edu/. • Tom March’s Best WebQuests at http://www.bestwebquests.com/ • Tom March’s Filamentality at http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/ • Tom March’s WebQuest Design site at http://www.ozline.com/ozline_story/index.htm • A technology article from Education World at http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech011.shtml • WebQuest sites at http://www.internet4classrooms.com/career.htm and http://www.lr.k12.nj.us/site/cherokee/library/webquest/hughes.htm • Some links were taken from a co-worker, Rebecca Barria, a TAG teacher’s web page at Roswell High School’s web site at http://www2.fultonschools.org/teacher/barriar/ and also from • http://www.internet4classrooms.com/career.htm • Previous teaching material that I developed for my classes before I knew about WebQuests.

23. Teacher Page • On this page I would develop a rubric for grading this individual project, list all the web sites used in the above proposal, and give the logic behind the sequence of the steps. An alternative plan would be to make this a group activity.