Career Life Connections

Career Research Project

 PLANNING YOUR CAREER
Step 1
Finding out what careers are available for you to explore with your personal goals and
interests.

Go to

1. Career Cruising at www.careercrusing.com (ID: Tweedsmuir Password: Careers)

2. Careerinsite www.careerinsite.alberta.ca and create your personal account.
3. My Blue Print and create a login

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Step 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 idea’s.

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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.

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

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 RESEARCH AT LEAST 3 CAREERS.
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.

Go to the ITA – Industry Trade Authority (Ihttp://www.itabc.ca/) and

Discover Skills BC (http://discoverskillsbc.ca/)

Go to http://alis.alberta.ca/videoplayer/player.aspx and view the video’s for your

suggested occupations.

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Answer the following for EACH of the three careers.

CAREER ONE
Name: tyler burghardt

Career Name: accountant

1. Education required and or recommendations: accountant examination to prove that you

are skilled enough to do the job, also some background experience in business is good
to have

2. Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: University of Toronto, UBC

3. Cost of training in Canadian $ (full program cost for all years): the cost to do this corse
is pretty flexible, UBC has a 41 week course and to get into it all you need is a 4 year
undergraduate degree and the course is $750

4. Salary range: the salary range can be anywhere from 39k – 90k with the median being
around 60k

5. Job description: Prepares asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and
analyzing account information

6. Number or people employed in this occupation (indicate whether the number refers to
BC or Canada) BC or Canada (circle one) : 28,500 (BC)

7. Employment prospects: there will be 10,800 new job openings in the next ten years

8. Related Jobs (list at least 3):

 actuary
 business development manager
 data analyst

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 9. Skills or characteristics required: self-motivation, integrity, business interest,
organizational skills

10. Disadvantages of occupation: stay in the same office all the time, working with people
can be difficult; especially when it comes to their money, long working hours with tight
deadlines

11. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: I enjoy
working independently and I am good with numbers, business intrigues me which is
important also

12. What courses and grades are needed to enter this occupation? Universities are always
looking for the best grade so to get into the UBC I would the least you would need is
straight A’s

13. Working conditions: long hours in an office, talk with clients whenever they come in

14. Typical hours of work: 40 hours a week, it’s an individual business so when you want to
work is up to you but you got to fit around 40 hours in there somewhere

15. Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: it came up in the
recommended occupations on the career insite page and I thought it would be
interesting to do this, also my grandfather used to be an accountant so i wanted to see
what he did for a living

16. What are the future trends of this occupation: the percentage of job openings is going
down slowly but there is still plenty of need for accountants in the upcoming decade

17. Go to Work BC Website (http://www.workbc.ca/) and Education Planner

(https://www.educationplannerbc.ca/) list 2 points of information you felt were important
and were not covered.

1. The job gets a bad rep ___________

2.

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CAREER TWO
Name:

Career Name: software engineers and developers

18. Education required and or recommendations: to become one, you need a bachelor’s
degree in software engineering, computer engineering, or a related science

19. Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: McMaster university, Simon Fraser university

20. Cost of training in Canadian $ (full program cost for all years): tuition is $14,124, so for 4
years it would be about $56,000

21. Salary range: $48,750-153,000

22. Job description: software developers design, research, and maintain software
applications, technical environments, operating systems, embedded software, and
telecommunication services.

23. Number or people employed in this occupation (indicate whether the number refers to
BC or Canada) BC or Canada (circle one) 10,200 (BC)

24. Employment prospects: prospects are good, there is a forecasted employment rate
growth for the next ten years, with an expected 4,700 openings in the next 10 years

25. Related Jobs (list at least 3):

 Cyber security manager

 Video game designer
 Computer and information manager _____________________________

26. Skills or characteristics required: problem solving and logical thinking, computer
programing and coding, written and verbal communication skills

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 27. Disadvantages of occupation: staying on a computer for long periods of time could
cause damage to your eyes or your back if you aren’t sitting correctly.

28. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: I enjoy
problem solving and logic based problems so coding would come easy to me. I also took
IT in gr.8 and enjoyed it quite a lot so I think working with computers is something that I
would enjoy.

29. What courses and grades are needed to enter this occupation? Computer and math
related courses. It’s a difficult job so you would need all A’s

30. Working conditions: in an office or at home, in front of a computer

31. Typical hours of work: 40 hours a week, but 17% of programmers work 50 hours, often
working in the evenings or on weekends to meet deadlines

32. Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: saw this career in the
recommended section after completing the surveys on career insite, I picked because I
typically enjoy working with computers and think it would be a good option for me

33. What are the future trends of this occupation: employment rate is expected to grow in
the upcoming years, which is good if I wanted to be a programmer because the industry
will be bigger for the time that I finish university

34. Go to Work BC Website (http://www.workbc.ca/) or Education Planner

(https://www.educationplannerbc.ca/) and list 2 points of information you felt were
important and were not covered.

1. ergonomics are very important because you are going to be sitting for very long
periods of time

2. the industry is growing quite quickly with the rise of technology and there aren’t too
many people graduating from software engineering programs so there is a surplus of jobs
available.

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TRADES CAREER
Name:

Career Name: Industrial electrician _____

35. Education required and or recommendations: 4 year apprenticeship program, or more

than 5 years’ work experience plus some high school, college, or industry courses in
industrial electrical equipment

36. Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: BCIT

37. Cost of training in Canadian $ (full program cost for all years): $20,000

38. Salary range: $48,750-$81,491

39. Job description: Industrial electricians inspect, install, maintain, test, troubleshoot and
repair industrial electrical equipment and associated electrical and electronic controls.

40. Number or people employed in this occupation (indicate whether the number refers to
BC or Canada) BC or Canada (circle one) 3,800 (BC)

41. Employment prospects: 1,140 new jobs in the next 10 years

42. Related Jobs (list at least 3): contractors and supervisors, electrical trades and
telecommunication occupations, other types of electricians

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43. Skills or characteristics required: critical thinking, installation, active listening,

troubleshooting

44. Disadvantages of occupation: hard to find an apprenticeship, bad working hours, risk
of cuts, shocks, or other injuries

45. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: my skills and
values don’t relate to this at all, and I have nont found a trade the does relate to my
skillset

46. What courses and grades are needed to enter this occupation? just need to complete
high school and maybe take some related courses to this occupation such as math or
physics

47. Working conditions: anywhere their services are needed, indoors, outdoors, factories,
businesses, offices, homes. Could be anywhere, long commutes may be required

48. Typical hours of work: working on call, around 40 hours per week

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 49. Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: it was just a random trade I
picked, there was no reason behind it, im not interested in any trades so I didn’t have
any preferance

50. What are the future trends of this occupation: there is almost no growth in this
occupation and all the new openings are due to retiring workers

51. Go to ITA http://www.itabc.ca/ or the Discover Skills BC Website

http://discoverskillsbc.ca/ and list 2 points of information you felt were important and
were not covered.

1.

2.

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