Name

Date

Career Planning
We have looked at the different career paths (directly entering the workforce, military,
apprenticeships, technical school, and college) and you have been told some career options that
you might like from Naviance.
Here, you will start to figure out a plan for how to attain three possible careers. Use the
Occupational Outlook Handbook provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to complete the
following chart. www.bls.gov/ooh
Photographer
$28,490 per year
$13.70 per hour
High School Diploma
or equivalent
Long-term

Graphic Designers
$44,150 per year
$21.22 per hour
Bachelors Degree

Nutritionist
$55,240 per year
$26.56 per hour
Bachelors Degree

None

Internship/Residency

Job Outlook 201020

(Percent &
Comparison Rate)
Duties
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4% (slower than
average)

7% (slower than
average)

21% (Faster than

average)

-Some travel for

certain events and
others work in their
own studio.
-Use their creativity
and expertise to
visually tell a story or
record an event

-Experts in food and

nutrition
-Advise people what
to eat and how to
gain a better and
healthier life style

Work Environment

-Conditions vary
depending on what
they specialize in
-Can be moving
around or put in a
certain location

-Use art and

technology to
develop graphics and
pictures of
companies to use as
logos and on
websites
-Create visual
concepts by hand or
by using technology
that inspire, inform,
or captivate
customers
-Can work in specific
design services,
advertising, public
relations, and related
services.
-Some may be selfemployed
-Can vary due to
their own schedule,
or other employers
and customers
schedules

-Depends if you work

at an organized
location, then you
have set hours
-If youre selfemployed then you
create your own
office hours and

2012 Median Pay

Entry-Level
Education
On-the-Job Training

Work Schedule

-Varies day to day

basis

-Work in many
settings;
-Can be selfemployed, work in
clinics, hospitals,
nursing homes, and
cafeterias

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How to Become
One
(Education,
Licenses/Certificati
on, Advancement)

Job Prospects
[Go to Job Outlook
Tab & summarize
the information]

Similar
Occupations
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Date
depends on when
you will have a client

-Postsecondary
education isnt
required, but some
photographers would
take extra classes to
learn more about it.
-Would want to gain
more knowledge and
creativity by going to
a postsecondary
school or taking
classes
-Will face
competition with
other companies and
photographers
-Salaried jobs are
more difficult,
because companies
usually hire freelance
photographers for
certain events and
not keep them for a
certain number of
events
-Craft and Fine Artist
-Desktop Publisher
-Fashion Designer

-Need a Bachelors
Degree in Graphic
Design or a related
field of study
-Should create their
own professional
portfolio before
entering the work
force in order for
employers to see
what theyve done

-Have a bachelors
degree, and
participate in outside
resources such as
clinics and
internships to gain
more experience in
the certain field

-Strong competition
to keep available
positions
-Should learn to work
with various types of
media because you
will have a higher
chance of getting a
job and keeping a job
if you know how to
do multiple things.

-There will be many

open positions in this
field because there
are many nutritionist
needed to support
the unhealthy at
hospitals and
organizations related
to that.

-Art Directors
-Industrial Designers
-Web Developers

-Rehabilitation
Counselors
-Health and
Community workers
-Nurses

Questions: Answer each question in a short paragraph.

1. Which career seems like the best fit for you after knowing this information?
The career that best fits me, is in the photography field. I enjoy working in
different settings along with being open to any new ideas and new places.
Unlike other jobs, you dont have a set schedule to follow; its more of
whenever your clients need you and whenever you have the time to work.
Although the pay isnt one of the highest paying jobs, that doesnt scare me
off because I love exploring and traveling and I would just love what I do
being a photographer.

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2. What college were you thinking about going to? Does it offer the major needed to
attain this career?
Right after I graduate high school, I am going to community college for the
first 2 years of my postsecondary schooling. I havent figured out exactly
what school I want to go to after, but I would like to go to a school either out
in the west, the city, or down south. I still have time to think about it so Im
not stressing about it. I believe that whatever college I go to will have the
major I need to attain this career, because photography is in other subject
majors, not just photography.