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CAREER RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT GUIDE

STEP 1:
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1)

Go to www.careercruising.com
Username: Tweedsmuir
Password: Careers

2)

From the button bar at the top of the page, select PLAN then CREATE A
NEW PLAN enter in the required information then click on CREATE PLAN.

3)

From the button bar at the top of the page select MATCHMAKER to begin
questions. You will be asked your name again then click START A NEW
CAREER MATCHMAKER SESSION.

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4)

Begin to answer the questions, there are 4 groups of questions. Group 1 is 39

questions, Group 2 is 55 questions, Group 3 is out of 7 questions, and Group 4
is out of 15 questions. After each group of questions, click SAVE TO MY
PLAN then click GO TO CAREER MATCH MAKER then click ANSWER MORE
QUESTIONS TO IMPROVE MY RESULTS.

5)

When there are no more questions to answer PRINT AND KEEP your final
list of 40 careers.

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TOP 10: https://www2.careercruising.com/my/assessments/matchmaker-and-myskills

TOP 40: https://www2.careercruising.com/my/Assessments/matchmaker-careersuggestions-printer-friendly

http://careerinsite.alberta.ca/careerinsite.aspx

STEP 2:
Do Career Handout Planning your Career Planning 10 Career Project

Planning your career.

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Part 1
Finding out what careers are available for you to explore with your personal goals
and interests.
Go to www.careerinsite.alberta.caand create your personal account.

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Part 2
Go to the know yourself section and take ALL the self-assessment quizzes. It is
important to do all the quizzes to get a full picture of your interests and a more
accurate assessment of your interests.

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Answer all the questions to the best of your ability giving thought to your own
personal values and ideas.

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When you have completed all the tests you will be able to go to the my career plan
section and see what occupations have been recommended for you. You can click
on any of the occupations in this section and explore the possibilities for each.

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Once you have completed all the quizzes and have an idea of what is being
suggested for you go to (http://www.workbc.ca/)

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Research at least 3 careers using this site. At least 1 career must be from the
suggested list at careerinsite. The second career can be from there or any other
career you may be interested in that might not have appeared on your list. The
third career must be in the trades area.( fastest growing jobs area in BC)
Go to http://alis.alberta.ca/videoplayer/player.aspx and view the videos for your
suggested occupations.

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Answer the following for EACH of the three careers.

Career one
Name: Melanie Kim
Career Name: Police Detective
1.

Education required and or recommendations: GED or a high school diploma

2.

Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: Kaplan University

3.
Cost of Training in Canadian (full program cost for all years) $: It costs
$10,077.60 for police academy
4.

Salary Range: Probationary Constable $45,500

4th Class Constable $52,500 (after one year service)
3rd Class Constable $56,000 (after two years service)
2nd Class Constable $63,000 (after three years service)
1st Class Constable $70,000 (after four years service)
A police detective: $36K to $98K per year, average of $56K annually

5.
Job Description: A police detective is a law enforcement official who
investigates serious crimes and the murder scene of a citizen. They help gather
evidences, witnesses, potential suspects and then attempts to create a case that
can be prosecuted by a district attorneys office. Police detectives do engage in field
work, which is mostly investigating in the crime scene. When major crime cases are
reported, police detectives are to gather evidences and information and hand it
over to the forensic investigators while they continue to gather witnesses, potential
suspects and the murderers motive
6.
Number or people employed in this occupation (indicate whether the number
refers to BC or Canada) In BC about 20 out of 1200 are hired each year.
7. Employment prospects:The job; Police Detective is a growing career because
every year many officers are getting promoted to higher ranks and new officers and
getting hired.
8.

Related Jobs (list at least 3)

1. Advance into higher position ranks

2.Body guards

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3.Can work for the surrey crime prevention society

9. Skills or characteristics required: some skills needed are; the ability to use both
inductive and deductive reasoning
Self-discipline
Honesty and trustworthiness
Resilience
Dependability
Open-mindedness
The ability to think creatively
Perceptiveness
Organizational skills
Time management skills
Oral and written communication skills
Also, to become a police detective or you need an experience of minimum 2 to 5
years as a police officer of a lower rank. You also need a clean background of past
history of theft, embezzlement, cheating or fraud.
10. Disadvantages of Occupation: The disadvantages of being part of the police
enforcement in general is that danger is everywhere. Your life will be at risk any
time youre out in the field. Your sleeping schedule for your beauty sleep wont be
available because of crazy hours anddifferentshifts. More importantly, training will
be insanely mentally, and physically painful. If you cant get through that training
program, you will not meet the expectations to become a police officer
11. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option
Im a very adventurous girl who likes to do things normal girls dont like to do. Im
very energetic and love mystery. Im very daring and ever since I was little Ive
always wanted to become a police officer but now that Im capable of knowing what
I want to do after high school, I think police detective fits me well.
12. What courses and grades are needed to enter this Occupation?
What you need is a minimum of a high school diploma and you have to attend the
police training academy. Some choose to complete degree programs in law
enforcement or criminal justice to help the advance into higher ranking further on in
their training.
13.
Working conditions: It all depends on the crime and the crime scene. They
can either work in offices filing report searching the web while on the other hand
they can go out or look for more evidence with the forensic investigators.
14.
Typical hours of work: Depends on what time you work and your shift but
shifts are close to 11-12 hours.

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15.
Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: Ever since I was
young Ive felt like this is what truly got to me. Also, I have a lot of people around
me who are part of the RCMP so some of the influences come from them.
16.
What are the Future Trends of this occupation:It is said on website CVTips that
job openings for police officers will increase between 7 and 13% between 2008 and
2018.
17.
Go to Work Futures Website (http://www.workbc.ca/) and list 2 points of
information you felt were important and were not covered.
1. Even though being a police officer is considered cool and theyre protecting the
city or country, it can be a dangerous job that you may have to risk your life for.
2.You will have to endure the stress of being forced to pull the trigger at times.

Career two
Name: Melanie Kim
Career Name: Actress
1.
Education required and or recommendations: long term training, but postsecondary classes or a bachelors degree is suggested
2.

Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: Korean national university of arts

3.
Cost of Training in Canadian (full program cost for all years) $: varies but
$150-$2000
4.
Salary Range: $43,605 - $64,606 a year but it will depend on how popular
you are and who your agency and boss is and lastly depends on how many episodes
you have released. Usually its $45.39 per hour. It will all depend on what category
you go into.
5.
Job Description: Actor or actresses are people who play roles or characters in
movies and dramas and they inform it for the audience to see and feel what theyre
trying to express.
6.
Number or people employed in this occupation: It all depends on the audition
and agency
(Indicate whether the number refers to BC or Canada)

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7. Employment prospects: That more and more advanced technology will be made
so most likely Photoshop and maybe higher quality of dramas or movies will be
made.
8.

Related Jobs (list at least 3)

1. A theatre play
2. An MC
3.New roles for new dramas and other things that you are new to
9. Skills or characteristics required: memorization is a big deal since you will have
to memorize lines to act,
10. Disadvantages of Occupation: its a hunger job. The competition is very high.
May not be able to land a role. You will also most likely to be very busy and wont
have a lot of time for yourself.
11. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: I
think I am very skilled in art and love to express myself with acting and every time I
watch a new drama or a movie the actors and actresses playing the role of different
character inspire me to try becoming like an actress that people love to watch.
12. What courses and grades are needed to enter this Occupation? No courses are
needed and no education are required some take acting classes and extra training
to audition for new agencies but no education is mandatory.
13.
Working conditions: you will have to work on set for a very long time and your
schedule will be chaotic.
14.
Typical hours of work: depends on your schedule but if you have a role in a hit
drama, most likely you will be very busy on set.
15.
Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: Ever since I was
a kid Ive always wanted to become an actress and was interested in acting and
learning new experiences from older and more experienced actors and actresses.
16.
What are the Future Trends of this occupation? It is a growing job because
more and more rookie actors and actress are landing new roles, hitting the top and
also some will retire due to public or personal reasons.
17.
Go to Work Futures Website (http://www.workbc.ca/) and list 2 points of
information you felt were important and were not covered.
1. Some agencies are only looking for sexual abuse and trying to use the actors and
actresses for the money and threatening them with fame.

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2. Sometimes things will go out of control and actors and actresses will commit
suicide. Most suicides are led by actresses due to sexual harassment from higher
positions and their agencies.

Trades Career
Name: Melanie Kim
Career Name: Hair dresser
1.

Education required and or recommendations: Certificate in cosmetology

2.

Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: Remington College

3.
Cost of Training in Canadian (full program cost for all years) $: it costs $8500
for a 6 month program 3 days a week, $600 for textbooks, and $1700 for your
professional cutting kit.
4.
Salary Range: An average of $23,140 a year but it will all depend on who and
where you are cutting their hairs.
5.
Job Description: a hair dresser has to be skilled with their hands and they
have the responsibility to maintain the hair and style of the customers
appearances. You will need a lot of practice because it will be a onetime shot.
6.
Number or people employed in this occupation (indicate whether the number
refers to BC or Canada): 300-390 are being hired average of each semester after
their graduation in the program in BC.
7.
8.

Employment prospects: it is said that this occupation is fair

Related Jobs (list at least 3)

1.Beautician
2.Nail artist
3. Makeup artist
9. Skills or characteristics required: Hairdressers cut, shape and style hair with
tools, including scissors, combs, curling irons, curlers and hair driers. They need an
eye for personal aesthetics, manual dexterity to implement a hair design and good

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verbal communication skills so they can talk with their customers while doing the
job keeping them occupied.
10. Disadvantages of Occupation: its a onetime chance so if you cut it wrong or
not the way the customers will want then they will leave a bad reputation on you
and your store and you may lose some customers.
11. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: I
have been very skilled when it comes to handling things with my hands so people
have told me being a hair dresser would be a nice choice of option. Also my mother
is a hair dresser herself so ever since I was little Ive learnt and saw lots of what she
has done and given to the customers.
12. What courses and grades are needed to enter this Occupation? You will need
a certificate in cosmetology. You may drop out of high school, graduate high school,
go to training academy, get a degree in criminology but as long as you have that
certificate you can become a hair dresser.
13.
Working conditions: you may have to deal with a lot of picky customers and
sometimes rude customers. In the end you will have to put up with and give it your
best shot.
13.
Typical hours of work: depending on your shift, its mostly a full day job.
Around 10-12 hours of work but after that another extra couple hours for cleaning.
14.
Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: my mother is a
hair dresser and ever since I was little she would take me to her shop and I would
always be there helping her with her customers when I wasnt really even helping
that much but I remember Ive had a lot of fun and I think with the experiences I
have and some help with my mom hair dresser isnt really bad of an option. In fact I
actually love styling and cutting other peoples hair.
15.
What are the Future Trends of this occupation: hair dresser is growing job
because more and more people who are interested in cosmetics will start advancing
and putting up their own stores. So it will be more of a competition and definitely a
growing job
16.
Go to Work Futures Website (http://www.workbc.ca/) and list 2 points of
information you felt were important and were not covered.
1. 50% of the hair dresser are over the age of 65.
2.Despite the growing demand for personal care, employment increased only
slightly in the occupation over the past few years, and this should not change in the
near future.

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Non Educational paths. If you dont plan on going on to post-secondary training you
can chose a career path from the following site in addition to a trade and a
traditional career.
Go to

Take the try a web version tests.

Career two

Name: ________________________________

Career Name:___________________________
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Education required and or recommendations:_____________________________

2.

Suggested Post Secondary Institutions:__________________________________

3.

Cost of Training in Canadian ( full program cost for all years ) $:____________

4.

Salary Range:______________________________________________________

5.

Job Description:____________________________________________________

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6.
Number or people employed in this occupation (indicate whether the number
refers to BC or Canada)
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7.

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or Canada (circle one)

Employment prospects:______________________________________________

Related Jobs (list at least 3)

1.________________________________________________________________
2.________________________________________________________________
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9. Skills or characteristics required:_______________________________________

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10. Disadvantages of Occupation:________________________________________

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11. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option
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12. What courses and grades are needed to enter this Occupation?
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Working conditions:
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Typical hours of work: ______________________________________________

14.
Describe what has influenced your choice of this
occupation:___________________
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15.

What are the Future Trends of this occupation:___________________________

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16.
Go to Work Futures Website (http://www.workbc.ca/) and list 2 points of
information you felt were important and were not covered.
1.________________________________________________________________
2.________________________________________________________________

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Step 3
POST SECONDARY APPLICATION ASSIGNMENT

Name: Melanie Kim

Date: 12/02/2016

Find 3 Post Secondary Institutions you would like to attend. (One must be a
College.) Answer the following questions for each Application Form and then
completely fill in ONE Application Form in Blue or Black pen with NO mistakes.

First Choice
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Post-Secondary Institution: University of Toronto

Where is the Location of the Campus: Toronto, Ontario.
What is the Address:27 King's College Cir, Toronto, ON M5S
Phone Number:416-978-2011
Fax Number:416-978-6614
Email Address:gradschool@utoronto.ca
Website Address:http://www.utoronto.ca/
First Program Applied for: Criminology
What is the Cost of the Application Fee: current fee is $120 CAD
Attach a Copy of the Application:
https://horizon.ouac.on.ca/webapp/base.d2w/report?
ident=MAIN_DSP&merchant_rn=189449&action_id=choose

Second Choice

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Post Secondary Institution: Korean national university of arts

2 Where is the Location of the Campus:Seoul, South Korea

3 What is the Address:146-37 Hwarang-ro 32-gil, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, South
Korea
4 Phone Number:822 746 9073 / 9075
5 Fax Number:822 746 9079
6 Email Address:global@karts.ac.kr
7 Website Address:http://eng.karts.ac.kr:8090/
8 First Program Applied for: acting
9 What is the Cost of the Application Fee: $50-$150
Third Choice
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Post-Secondary Institution: Douglas College

Where is the Location of the Campus: New Westminster, BC
What is the Address: 700 royal Ave, new Westminster, BC V3M 5Z5
Phone Number: 604-527-5400
Fax Number: 604-547-5095
Email Address: regoffice@douglascollege.ca <regoffice@douglascollege.ca>
Website Address: https://www.douglascollege.ca/
First Program Applied for: criminology
What is the Cost of the Application Fee: $100 CAD per application fee

What is PAS BC? ApplyBC.ca

Step 4

1)

HAND IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER:

a)
3 Completed career research info sheets (1 for each career)
b)
Your Top 10 and Top 40 lists
c)
All of your research papers (from both career cruising and
Careerinsite websites)

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CAREER RESEARCH WEBSITES

Web Site Address

Site Name

Purpose of Site

www.aiabc.com

Aerospace Industry

Aerospace
Careers

www.driveabus.ca

Bus Industry

Bus Industry
Careers

www.canadiancareers.com

Careers in Canada

Career
Exploration

www.canlearn.ca

Government of
Canada

Career
Exploration

www.careers.ca

Careers

Job Search Skills

www.schoolfinder.com/careers

School finder

Career
Exploration

www.vector.cfee.org

Vector

Career
Exploration

www.ces.bc.ca

Career Education Soc.

Career
Exploration

www.nextsteps.org

Next Steps

Career
Exploration

www.careerpathsonline.com

Career Paths

Career
Exploration

www.workfutures.bc.ca

Work Futures

Career
Exploration

www.bccassn.com

BC Construction Assn.

Construction
Careers

www.roadbuilders.bc.ca

BC Roadbuilders

Construction
Careers

www.bcfilm.iondesign.ca

BC Film Industry

Film Industry
Careers

www.itabc.ca

Industry Training
Authority

Trades Careers

www.jobfutures.ca

Canada Job Futures

Market research

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site
www.workfutures.bc.ca

BC Job Futures

Market research
site

www.workinfonet.bc.ca

Work Infonet

Market research
site

www.beyourownboss.org

Be Your Own Boss

Self Employment

www.wd.gc.ca

Western
Diversification

Self Employment

www.youth.gc.ca

Youth Link

Self-Employment

www.success.bc.ca/yep

BC Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship

www.communityfutures.ca/

BC Small business

Entrepreneurship

www.cybf.ca

Canada Youth
Business

Entrepreneurship

www.asttbc.org

Applied Science Tech.

Technology
Careers

www.cthrb.ca

Canadian Technology

Technology
Careers

www.workdestinations.org

Work Destinations

Trades Careers

www.opportunityknocks.ca

Opportunity Knocks

Trades/Apprentic
es

www.skilledtrades.ca

Skilled Trades

Trades Careers

www.youthpath.ca

Government of
Canada

Youth
Employment

www.monster.ca

Monster

Career Search

www.destination2020.ca

Destination 2020

Career Search

Narrow your career list to a few good choices. Each career should have a detailed list of
skills needed, as well as degrees, diplomas, certificates, volunteer or relevant experience
etc. Next, research the schools or organizations that offer the particular program of study
needed. Find out the entrance requirements or prerequisites. Finally, call prospective
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employers within the industry you are researching and ask what they look for in their
employees and if they prefer to hire students from a particular school or program.

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