Career Research Notes

Maya Reeve
Step 1: Take the Career Cluster Survey
Identify the Career Cluster(s) that best fits your personality, skills and interests by taking
the Career Cluster Survey. Download at
http://www.21things4students.net/downloads/career_prep/careerclustersurvey_2013060
8_142357_1.pdf
My Top Cluster: Arts, Audio/Visual Technology & Communications

View the video about your top Career Cluster at Careerinfonet.org

Video Name: Radio and television announcers, actors, photographers
Video Link: http://www.careeronestop.org/Videos/CareerandClusterVideos/careerand-cluster-videos.aspx
Citation Information:

Include information about the top Career Cluster that matches your
personality/skills/interests in your multi-media presentation.

Additional information I want to include:

Radio/tv broadcaster

Need a Ph.D
Should go to college
Need acting talents
At college try to work at minor radio station
Actors

Need a high school diploma

Need reading comprehension
Know history and archaeology
Photographers

Need customer and personal service

Need an associates degree
Need realistic interests

Step 2: Research your Career Cluster

Visit the CareerShip site at http://mappingyourfuture.org/planyourcareer/careership/index.cfm and search by Career
Cluster (using results from your survey above). Locate three possible careers within your cluster, including details
about career descriptions, tasks, interests, education, knowledge, skills, and etc. for use in your multi-media
presentation.

Category
Career
Description

Career 1
Broadcasting
Broadcast news from various
sources

Career 2
Actor
Play parts in stage, television, radio,
video, or motion picture productions
for entertainment, information, or

Career 3
Photographer
Photograph persons, subjects,
merchandise or other commercial
products.

instruction.

Tasks

Write commentaries, columns, or

Study and rehearse roles from

scripts, using computers.

scripts in order to interpret, learn

Edit news material to ensure that it

and memorize lines, stunts, and

fits within available time or space

cues as directed

Broadcast on TV or a radio

Work closely with directors, other

Take pictures of individuals

,families, and small groups in
studio or a different location

actors, and playwrights to find the

interpretation most suited to the role

Interests

Education
Knowledge
Skills

You need realistic, social,

artistic, or enterprising
interests
You do have to have a 4-year
bachelors degree
Clerical, mathematics,
psychology, English language
Active listening, reading
comprehension

Enterprising, Artistic

Realistic, artistic

Require high school diploma

Associates degree, or on the job

training
Personal and customer service,
English language
Editing skills
People skills
Marketing skills

History and archeology

Reading comprehension

Other:___________

none

none

none

Step 3: Research Career Outlook

Locate the nature of work, working conditions, education, job outlook, and earnings for your top three careers using
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/ and/or the O*NET
Database at http://www.onetonline.org/
Category

Nature of Work

Career 1
Broadcasting

Career 2
Acting

Present:

Take pictures of:

Memorize their lines

Music

Career 3
Photographer

Groups

Single pics
Meet with agents

Sports

Single items

Audition in front of directors

and producers

News

Weather
Working
Conditions

Need a Bachelors degree

Need on the job training
Need experience with
radio and television

Job Outlook

Radio and television

announcers held about
41,300 jobs in 2012. About
70 percent were employed in

Need a Bachelors
degree
Dont need
postsecondary
education

You need a good eye and

should be creative

Need to be in an
acting class in
college

Employment of actors is projected

to grow 4 percent from 2012 to
2022

Portrait photographers may work

in studios, but they also often
travel to take photographs at a
clients location, such as a

the radio and television

broadcasting industry, and
about 24 percent were selfemployed.

Earnings

Make $13.34 an hour

school, a company office, or a

private home.

Make $20.26 an hour

Make $ 13.70 An hour

Step 4: Compare Your Top Three

Careers
Use the Career One-Stop to compare your top
three careers. Key the career in the search
box, then click the link provided to get more
information and view a video. Create a
spreadsheet and graph that compares your top
three careers on salary. Include the
spreadsheet/graph in your multi-media
presentation. (Click here for a "Help"
document for this task").

Insert a screenshot of your spreadsheet/graph below:

Step 5: Create and Share your Multi-Media Presentation

Create a multi-media presentation that includes information from Steps 1-4.
Your presentation should include:
A. Research gathered from Steps 1-4, including Career Cluster, Top 3,
descriptions, skills, nature of work, work conditions, education/skills, job
outlook, salary/graph spreadsheet comparison, and etc.
B. Citations
C. Creative Commons
D. Copyright friendly images
E. Anything else you feel adds to the presentation's visual appeal

Post your presentation to your online presence. NOTE: This presentation may
be used in the "Video Creation" Thing.

Web address where I posted my presentation: