College/Career Task Card & Notes

Instructions: Save this document to your GOOGLE DRIVE with your name. Answer and complete the
following by December 5th. * If you have already completed this assignment in a previous class, please turn in
the link to your portfolio for this assignment.

STEP1: Explore Careers

Identify the Career Cluster(s) that best fits your personality, skills and interests by completing the interest profiler at
http://www.mynextmove.org/

STEP 2: My Roadmap
Define your Roadmap using the site: http://roadtripnation.com/roadmap
*(Take a screenshot of your roadmap statement and insert here):

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Step 3: Research your Career Cluster

Visit these websites to find the name of the job your top career choice: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/a-z-index.htm# or
http://mappingyourfuture.org/planyourcareer/careership/index.cfm
Including details about the career description, tasks, interests, education, knowledge, skills, and etc.
Category

Career Title:

Career Description

Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill

holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products

Tasks

-Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.

-Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
-Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals
being welded, completing electrical circuits.

Interests

-Holland Interest Code: RCI

-Realistic:Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical,
hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world
materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working
outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Education

Formal training is available in high school technical education courses and in postsecondary
institutions, such as vocationaltechnical institutes, community colleges, and private
welding, soldering, and brazing schools.

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Courses in blueprint reading, shop mathematics, mechanical drawing, physics, chemistry,
and metallurgy are helpful.
Knowledge

Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision
technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Skills

Critical Thinking
Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions,
conclusions or approaches to problems.
Monitoring
Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make
improvements or take corrective action.
Active Listening
Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points
being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Other:___________

Step 4: Research Career Outlook

College/Career Task Card & Notes

Locate the nature of work, working conditions, education, job outlook, and earnings for your career 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

Working Conditions

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers may work outdoors, often in inclement weather, or
indoors, sometimes in a confined area. They may work on a scaffold, high off the ground,
and they occasionally must lift heavy objects and work in awkward positions. Although most
work full time, overtime is common.

Job Outlook

Employment of welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers is projected to grow 6 percent from
2012 to 2022, slower than the average for all occupations.

Employment growth reflects the need for welders in manufacturing because of the
importance and versatility of welding as a manufacturing process. The basic skills of welding
are similar across industries, so welders can easily shift from one industry to another,
depending on where they are needed most. For example, welders laid off in the automotive
manufacturing industry may be able to find work in the oil and gas industry.

The nations aging infrastructure will require the expertise of welders, cutters, solderers,
and brazers to help rebuild bridges, highways, and buildings. The construction of new power
generation facilities and, specifically, pipelines transporting natural gas and oil will also
result in new jobs.

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Earnings

$36,300 per year

$17.45 per hour

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STEP 5: College Research
1.

What will your major be? Welding

2.

What will your minor be? Pipe Fitter

Note: you may not find all of the information for each of your colleges but try

3.

What is your 1st college choice when you graduate from high school? San Jacinto

a.

What city and state is this college? Houston Texas

b.

Private or public? Public

c.

Does this college have your major and minor? Yes

d.

What is the GPA requirement? N/A

e.

What is the SAT/ACT requirement? N/A

f.

What is the total cost of tuition? N/A

g.

What extracurricular activities do you like that the college offers? (list at least 2)
Basketball, Football

h.

What scholarships do they offer that you may qualify for or be interested in? N/A