Researching for the Career Project is both exhausting and challenging. There is limited resource and information on the subject and it is all divided up. I had to go to two libraries to find sufficient information to research on the topic. This is definitely one of the hardest projects I ever did. Choosing to do a research on a career can be a little easier to do when you have some or a general knowledge a particular field of work. There are many different types of jobs one can decide to undertake, one of which I decide to do research on is in the most popular line of work today: Computer Programming. The researching of this job was tiresome but I find it enjoyable even though it required a lot of patience and doing long and tedious work.
WOIS definitely helped me significantly on choosing the career of my choice. The numbers of job offered on WOIS is immense. Therefore it can present me the job that suits me the most. I really liked the choices of jobs WOIS provided me with. Without WOIS, the career project would have been a lot tougher.
Section one of the Career Project was one of the tough spots of this entire project. I had to write a paper about what kind of jobs WOIS offered me with, do a comparison chart on all of the jo
Job shadow is the most important part of the Career Project. We actually get to go on a job site for a day and see what people do on the job. My job shadow was at Henry Cogswell College in Everett. There was a group of people from our school that also went there for their job shadow. The teachers and students there shown us around campus and told us about the daily life of a computer field related personal. There were prestige and sensitive equipments that they shown us how they work and operate. They also shown us what kind of knowledge you have to know to be a computer programmer. The job shadow was a crucial experience for this Career Project.
Business letters was also an important part of the research for the Career Project. We were supposed to send business letter to career related firms and ask them to complete an enclosed survey. I wrote the business letter according to Ms. Petersen’s format. Then I found five businesses I could send my letters to. Only two of the five surveys were sent back. But in these two I found valuable information about my career. It gave me a lot of pros and cons of computer programming. The business letters were essential in the research process.