Choosing a Career

Choosing a Career 

RULE #1: Choose a career that is something you really like to do. 

RULE #2: Do you research and choose carefully and throughly. 

RULE #3: Make it meaningful to you.

THE MORE YOU KNOW, THE GREATER YOUR MARKETABILITY. 

FACTORS TO CONSIDER 

Do:

• Explore a number of careers and majors. 
• Get involved. 
• Get advice from people in your target occupation. 
• Follow your passion. 
• Dare to try something new. 

Don't: 

• Focus on a major just to get a career out of it. 
• Select a major just because it is "cool" or seems to promise prestige. 
• Let someone else push you into a job. 
• Assume that you have it all figured out. 

FACTORS AFFECTING CAREER CHOICES 

• Interests 
• Skills 
• Aptitudes 
• People skills 
• Experience 
• Family Traditions 
• Personality 
• Life goals and work values 

WHERE TO GO FOR HELP 

• Career center
• Faculty 
• Upper-class students
• Student organizations 
• Plcement services 
• College office 
• Counselor 

• A pediatrician 
• Or a Federal agent 

Federal Agent:

•  http://www.ice.gov/
• http://www.fbi.gov/
• http://www.usmarshals.gov/
• https://www.cia.gov/index.html
• http://cbp.gov/
• http://www.ice.gov/about/offices/homeland-security-investigations/

Pediatrician: 

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pediatrics
•  http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/patientcare/healthcare_services/pediatrics/the_pediatrician/Pages/index.aspx
• http://www.pediatrics.medsch.ucla.edu/
• http://search.careers-hcanorthtexas.com/s/Medical-City/Registered-Nurse-Pediatric-ICU-Job/Xljdp-cl289619-lc540-jid16529761-jf120-ct2190http://search.careers-hcanorthtexas.com/s/Medical-City/Registered-Nurse-Pediatric-ICU-Job/Xljdp-cl289619-lc540-jid16529761-jf120-ct2190
• http://www.uclahealth.org/body_mattel.cfm?id=1748