Database Highlight #27: We've got the Career for That
It’s National Handwriting Analysis Week! Ever considered a handwriting analysis career with the FBI? This week’s database highlight, Career Cruising, is built for anyone looking to go into a career. The database not only includes general career information but job descriptions, working conditions, typical earnings, and interviews with people in the field. For careers requiring a college education, users can utilize the Education and Financial Aid sections. The job search is powered by Indeed.com and includes help with resumes, letter writing, and interviewing.
Career Cruising is a self-exploration and planning program that helps people of all ages achieve their potential in school, career and life. – from the vendor
This week’s open site is Occupational Outlook from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Using gathered statistics, Occupational Outlook provides information for hundreds of occupations. Search or browse occupations by pay, education, even growth rate.
Action Steps
- Using Career Cruising, look up what you wanted to be as a kid. What level of education would you need?
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- Using the Career Selector in Career Cruising, find out what a good job match would be. Were the results what you expected?
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Comments
Growing up around animals and fossil shells I always wanted to be a zoologist or paleontologist. As a Zoologist most people need at least a bachelor's degree or a graduate degree. For Paleontology the website recommends you aim straight for a PhD.
Where did you grow up that you were around fossil shells?
There was a huge hole dug on the lot next to ours, it was meant to be the start of a new house but it never happened. In the mounds of dirt around the hole we found fossilized seashells along some clumps of salt crystals but all broke easily like they didn't finish the fossilization process. That started my interest in dinosaurs, though I'm not as crazy about them as when I was a kid I still enjoy learning about them.
When you got down into the hole a black oil was seeping out and it infected you with an alien virus?
That's a secret to everyone.
...always a teacher.
even though I left the classroom almost 4 years ago, my first dozen or so suggested vocations involved education or psychology. Nowhere on my list was library science.
I am grateful for a library job that uses the teacher in me...but I am wondering what I would have had to answer to have library work show up on my list?
Hmmm.....
Most of my suggestions were computer-related, which is definitely my strong suit. One of my childhood dreams of being a history teacher was on there (as was Historian).
Hmm, an agronomist? Also an aerospace engineer. NOT what I expected
I can see it!
I always wanted to be an artist. Either animation or cartoonist. Animation requires college, either a 2 year or 4 year degree. A cartoonist can be done straight out of high school.
So what I wanted to be didn't show up as an actual job title on Career Cruising. :) I wanted to be a "cash register lady" when I was about 5 because I really "like to push buttons." I only needed a high school education for that but here I am as a LM and still pushing buttons. Haha!
It's a dream come true!