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 What did you pick for….
● Housing - apartment

Utilities

Food

Transportation

Clothes

Health Care

Entertainment

Personal

Misc

Savings

What is your Monthly Expense?

What is your Annual Expense?

What are you going to have to pay in Taxes annually?

So just how much money do you have to make yearly to survive?

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What did it say about Your Career Interest Profile? Copy & paste those results here.

EXAMPLE
Artistic (7)
Realistic (5)
Social (3)
Enterprising (1)

Primary Interest Area: Artistic

People with artistic interests like work activities that deal with the artistic side of things, such as forms,
designs, and patterns. They like self-expression in their work. They prefer settings where work can be
done without following a clear set of rules.
Explore Career Cluster

What Career Cluster did you pick ? Engineering and Architecture

What specific Career Group did you pick? Engineering

What Occupation in that Career Group did you pick? Biomedical engineer
 Explore Career Cluster (cont)

What Work Value does it rank What Abilities does it rank as

as the highest and briefly explain the two (2) highest?
what it means in your own
words?

A= Independence
Wanting to make your own work
decisions
What Occupational
Education and
Training does it
require? (Doctoral, Masters,
Bachelors, 2 yr, certification, etc.)

A= bachelors

What Interests does it rank as

the two (2) highest? What Knowledge does it rank
as the two (2) highest?
A= Inestigative
Realistic
Explore Career Cluster (Cont)

Under the BLS tab what does it say:

Number of Calif Employment in 2018 = 4,900

Number of Projected Calif Employment in 2026 = 5,400
Average yearly wage 2018 = 105,960
Turnover Rate = 330

CONCLUSION: So do you think the career you choose will be a good

match and is something that you can do? Explain why you think they way
you do.

I think it might be a good match because I like both biology and

engineering and design.
ONET Online Explore Career Cluster

Go to this website to answer below: http://online.onetcenter.org/

Using the Career or Occupation that selected yesterday type it into Occupation Search and see what information NET
provides you about it.

Pick an Occupation that falls under that search that YOU picked. Now answer the following questions:

1-What specific Occupation did you pick and why? Biomedical engineering

2-What Occupational Education and/or Training does it require? (Doctoral, Masters, Bachelors, 2
yr, certification, etc.) Bachelors

3-What other background studies does it possibly require and are they interesting to you?

Includes managing and supervising, which I’m not sure if I’m interested in.
4-What three Interest areas does it require and are these applicable to you?

Investigative and realistic (no third one), yes I think these are realistic to me

5-What top three Work Styles does it require and are these applicable to you?
Integrity, cooperation, attention to detail. Yes these are applicable to me.
 ONET Online Explore Career Cluster (Cont)

Under Wages & Employment Trends what does it say:

6-National:
Median Wages = $43.9 hourly, $91,410
Employment = 21,200
Projected Growth = 5%-7%
Projected Job Openings = 1,400
Top Industries = Manufacturing; professional, scientific, and technical services
Average Age of Workers in this job = does not say

7-Select a State to explore:

What is the National Median Pay Yearly= $91,410
What is the State Median Pay Yearly= $102,140
Which one is higher and what does that tell you? State. It tells me that California is expensive, which I already
knew.

BONUS: 20 pts - Watch one of the Career Videos. Explain in 2-3 sentences what you have learned
from this video.

CONCLUSION: So do you think this occupation is something you could see yourself doing for the
next 20+ years or not? Explain why you think they way you do.
I could maybe see myself doing this. It does seem like a lot because of the combination of technology
with other sciences. I am not the most tech savvy person.
Select A College

Why did you pick College #1?

Cal Poly
AREA OF STUDY: What do
I chose it because it is a great
you think you want to study or get
engineering school and is in
your degree in?
California. My cousin goes there
Engineering, maybe
and loves it.
Go to this website to answer
below:
https://connection.naviance.com/fa
mily-connection/auth/login/?hsid=ri
oamericano

Pick two (2) colleges

under the colleges tab and
compare them
Why did you pick College #2?
UC Davis
I chose it because it is close and
has a good engineering program.
Select A College (Cont)

Cal Poly UCD

Price: $12,252 Price: $19,409

Acceptance rate: 30% Acceptance rate: 40%

graduation rate: 54% graduation rate: 58%

Student to faculty ratio: 21:1 Student to faculty ratio: 20:1

Undergrad enrollment: 21,098 Undergrad enrollment: 30,718

Top area of study: engineering Top area of study: biological and biomedical
sciences
Offers biomedical engineering
Cutting edge research

Cons Biomedical engineering offered

No options to study abroad No Study abroad

No honors program No Internships

No double major No Honors program

No interships No Double major

Conclusion

What did you learn from the Reality Check?

A= I learned that I think I would rather stay in-state for college.

What Career Cluster did you pick from OSCAR and why?
A= I chose engineering and architecture because I like to design things.

What specific career did you pick from ONET and why?

What Education Level, Certification/License, Mentoring, etc.. does your career choice require?

What college/post secondary school did you select for your career choice and why did you pick
this school?

In conclusions what will you have to do to reach your career choice?