Warm-up Discussion:
Talk about these questions with your partner.
Use English!
How can we classify or organize the different kinds of jobs or careers?
What different “types” of jobs are there?
Have you ever had any kind of aptitude test or career interest survey?
If so, what did the results tell you?
What kind of careers are you interested in?
Why?
How well do you know about these jobs?
Vocabulary Preparation:
Before you do the survey, look at this vocabulary.
Ask your partner or your teacher to explain words that you do not know.
- following a
budget - flying airplanes
- studying people in other
lands - going to concerts
- fixing cars
- creative writing
- physics
- playing music
- interior
decorating - typing reports
- reading art and music
magazines - keeping detailed
records - being with
leaders - being in a science
fair - teaching children
- working on a sales
campaign - foreign languages
- talking to
salespeople - advanced math
- belonging to a
club - making new
friends - working in a lab
- carpentry
- buying clothes for a
store - talking to people at a
party - word processing
- fixing electrical appliances
- astronomy
- filing letters and
reports - using a cash
register - attending sports
events - being in a play
- working nine to
five - giving speeches
- being elected class
president - putting together model
kits - working with the
elderly - working with
animals - fashion design
- cooking
- helping people solve personal
problems - doing puzzles
- using business machines
- drawing
orpainting - selling life
insurance - going to church
- wildlife biology
- using a chemistry
set - take a course in car engine
repair - counsel other people your
age - study earth
sciences - construct wooden
furniture - work with scientists to design
a new jet engine - design an office filing
system - manage a sales
force - sing in a musical variety
show - paint a mural
- describe how sunlight is used
for energy - participate in community
activities - conduct research
studies - lead a seminar on taking
business risks - track company sales and
finances - direct theatrical
productions - work with abused
children - use weights and
measures - do automotive body
work - write scientific
reports - improve the accounting system
of a small business - find people to invest in your
business - write songs
- take a course in marriage
counseling - build a house
- read to blind
people - enter data into a
computer - think of ideas for starting
your own business - learn how to arrange the
subjects for a photograph - invent scientific
products - participate in a big brother
big sister program - compute wages for payroll
records - take a short story writing
class - repair a wooden
fence - help your business
grow - learn how to use a word
processor - play a musical
instrument - learn about
childcare - use a prism to study
light - assemble a new
bicycle - change the structure of a
corporation - tax accounting
- design greeting
cards - teach adults how to
read - explain how satellites
work - replace a broken light
switch - learn how to develop real
estate - identify different types of
science lab equipment - restore an old
car - design a set for a
play - provide counseling to people
with drug or alcohol problems - write a business
proposa - lfill out order forms for a
company - be a file clerk
- teach learning disabled
students how to read - cut wood with a
handsaw - write a script for a
play - lead a project team or
committee - conduct an audit
- manage a new area of a large
corporation - build a radio
Internet Action Research:
Now you are ready to take some occupational interest surveys in English! We will try 2 different ones.
The first one is the Career Interest Checklist.
It is here:
http://www.learnmoreindiana.org/careers/inventories/Interest-Checklist.xml
or
http://www.learnmoreindiana.org/@students/students_ms/careers/interest_inventories/Interest-Checklist.xml
There are 48 choices here. You simply check the ones that you think you would like to do.
Then click SUBMIT.
The second is the Work Interest Quiz.
It is here:http://www.myfuture.com/toolbox/workinterest.html
From among the 60 choices, check the jobs that you think sound interesting. Then click GO.
Both of these surveys will give you a RIASEC code. It tells if you like jobs which are
Realistic,
Investigative,
Artistic,
Social,
Enterprising, or
Conventional.
These are also known as Holland Codes.
You will also see a list of careers. If you click on a career name, you will go to a page which has summary information, wages, the job situation, and a short film about the job. Select “SLOW CONNECT WITH TEXT” from the “Video Options” menu and you can watch a short film about the job.
(I am sorry to see that some of these links are no longer working or have changed in the past year since I first wrote this. You can also try to Google for the phrase "Career Interest Checklist" or "Work Interest Quiz" to find these interactive quizzes at another site.)
Reflection and Writing:
Please write a short report about your results. Did you learn anything new? (Look at the answers you wrote earlier.) What did you learn? Does the test seem to be accurate? Is this job the same or different in Japan? Would you consider working abroad? Were there any differences in the results from the two tests? Try to write 100 to 150 words, please. No machine-translation or copying, please. Make it into your blog post. Hand in your writing on a separate piece of paper, if there is no room on this paper. Or, you could e-mail it to me with the Subject Line “Career Interest Survey writing”.
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