Your Dream Career For Dummies by Carol L. McClelland & Richard N. Bolles

Author:Carol L. McClelland & Richard N. Bolles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

Chapter 14

Researching Your Top Two Career Ideas

In This Chapter

Staying focused on your top career ideas

Making a list of your questions

Compiling job and industry profiles

Noting your feelings about your career choices

A fter you have an intriguing career idea or two in mind (see Parts I through III of this book to help you formulate some ideas), it’s time to deepen your understanding of each one of them. Having an accurate perspective of your target careers is essential to verifying that the careers match your needs.

The world is far too complex and changing far too fast to rely solely on your assumptions, written material, or one person’s opinion about a career. To get an up-to-date picture of a potential career, you need to gather information about the job tasks and the possible industries where those job tasks are needed from several online or hard copy sources.

The job profiles you develop in this chapter help you get a sense of the tasks, educational requirements, and salary related to your top two career ideas. The next step is to explore and profile the industries that hire people in your target field. For example, if you want to write, you might start by looking at job titles that involve writing, such as technical writer, copy editor, public relations, or sitcom writer. Then to get a full sense of these jobs, you’d turn your attention to understanding the industries you might work in. As you’ll see, each industry has its own character and culture. For instance, the publishing industry has a different culture, different requirements, and different opportunities than the news industry or the entertainment industry.

Building your job and industry profiles is also likely to open up new avenues of exploration. As you read various job profiles, you may discover a job title you hadn’t seen before, or you may run into information about a trend that highlights an industry you hadn’t considered before.

In Chapter 15 you expand your investigation by conducting informational interviews with those who are part of your target professions and target industries.

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