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=What to do after school...=

This page has been established to assist you in making the right decisions to further your future pathways. We will be looking at in greater detail your education choices for next year, what is needed to obtain part-time employment and how do you choose a career. The website we will be using in through this term is called **My Future**. 
 * My Future** is a website developed to help you explore and plan your career direction using a series of articles and activities.

This is a personalised service. So that you can make the best use of it, your sessions will be saved, so you’ll need to provide some details and create a login name and password. These details are kept private and not used for any other purpose. If at any time you wish to change your details, click on your user name, which displays at the top right of every page of My Guide. This will take you to the Change My Details menu, where you can choose which details you wish to change: your password, your life stage or your personal details. You can also choose to remove your myfuture account.

My Guide presents articles and activities in a series of steps towards your desired career: Class 1: My Guide @ My Future (24 July 2009) **
 * **Preparing/Reviewing** helps you lay the groundwork.
 * **Identifying** familiarises you with your own interests, skills, values, knowledge and aspirations, and helps you define the work conditions, work locations, life balance and education you want.
 * **Exploring** helps you brainstorm career ideas, ways of working and learning.
 * **Deciding** helps you choose among different career fields and occupations you’re interested in.
 * **Summarising** helps you pull together results, identify themes and patterns in your thinking and make the ultimate decision about your career direction.
 * **Planning** involves setting and monitoring goals and actions to move you forward.
 * **Doing** guides you as you implement your career plans.
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 * 1) Become a member of the **My Future** website.
 * 2) Once you have joined and click on the **My Guide** section.
 * 3) Log in with your username and password.
 * 4) Click on the **Identifying** section.
 * 5) Click on the **Interests** section.
 * 6) The **Identifying My Interests Exercise** should appear, click on **New** to begin the quiz.
 * 7) Answer __all__ of the questions in the quiz.

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 * Task 1**
 * 1) Once you have finished the quiz you should receive your results.
 * 2) Copy and paste into a PowerPoint or Word document the top four areas you scored highest in.
 * 3) Look carefully at the areas and write one paragraph on each explaining:
 * is this field a strong interest of yours?
 * why you are or are not suited in this field?
 * can you see yourself working in the field in the future?


 * Task 2**
 * 1) The next thing is to look at the **My Top Interests** section.
 * 2) Select four of the jobs the computer has matched to you and list:
 * the job title
 * a job description
 * what subjects do you need to study and if a degree needs to be completed
 * what amount is the salary in this chosen field

You need to save your PowerPoint as **My Future** under the: Class 2: Career report (31 July 2009) ** Identify educational requirements, salary, job description, and occupational outlook for one career area that match your profile by completing the **My Future** online quiz (Task 1).
 * S:// Drive
 * Submit work
 * Year 9
 * Home Group
 * The folder marked as "Your Name"
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Pick one of the careers that **My Future** matched to you from the outcome of your quiz and answer the following questions. 1. Salary (How much does this job pay on the average?) 2. Educational Requirements (What kind and how much education do you need for this type of career?) 3. Job Description (What do they do?) 4 Personal Characteristics/Abilities Needed for this Career: 5 Advantages: 6 Disadvantages: 7 Working Conditions (Inside, outside; lifting or not; hours; etc.): 8 At least THREE addresses where I could find further information: 9 Find and print THREE classified advertisements from the newspaper or internet for your chosen career: You need to create a poster that gives information on your chosen career which includes the above questions.
 * Task 1**
 * Task 2**

You need to present your poster to the class. This must be done in a 3 minute oral presentation highlighting the key features of this job and whether or not you or who would be suited to this job.
 * Task 3**

**Class 3: Continue class 2 - Career report (7 August 2009)**

** Identify educational requirements
 * Class 4: Presentations & writing a resume (14 July 2009)