Understanding the types of educational requirements necessary for specific jobs and career paths will allow you to determine if a specific career fits your future goals. In this assignment you will identify the educational requirements for three (3) specific jobs. While none of these may be on your career list, this will be an important exercise in learning how to find the information for a career path you might be interested in.
Assignment Directions
Step 1:
Research the educational requirements for the following three positions:
ramp support in a commercial airline
operator/driver of a mass transit engine
entry-level flight traffic controller
Step 2:
Outline the specific educational requirements needed to be hired in this field.
Step 3:
Determine if any of these positions can be obtained without secondary education. Determine if any of these positions have secondary education as at least one of the possible mandatory requirements for employment in the field. Investigate how further education or certification can impact salary, benefits, and future opportunities.
Submission requirements:
Student can use any of the references provided within the three-lesson set, or do further web research.
Identify each of the positions researched.
For each position, list skills required and certifications or licenses necessary.
Create a chart for the skills required, certifications, licenses, compensation and the relationship between education and salary. Include your resources.
Submit to your instructor electronically.
Answers
Submission requirements:
Student can use any of the references provided within the three-lesson set, or do further web research.
Identify each of the positions researched.
For each position, list skills required and certifications or licenses necessary.
Create a chart for the skills required, certifications, licenses, compensation and the relationship between education and salary. Include your resources.
Submit to your instructor electronically.
Understanding the types of educational requirements necessary for specific jobs and career paths will allow you to determine if a specific career fits your future goals. In this assignment you will identify the educational requirements for three (3) specific jobs. While none of these may be on your career list, this will be an important exercise in learning how to find the information for a career path you might be interested in.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
–Henry David Thoreau
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Explain how time management plays a factor in goal setting, leading to short-term, medium-term, and long-term objectives.
Identify your specific short, medium, and long-term goals.
Identify and apply motivational strategies to support goal achievement.
Explore the social aspects of achieving goals (networking, social media, etc.).
Brainstorm factors that might hinder goal achievement and possible ways to address these issues.
Time Management and Goal Setting
There is no doubt that doing well in college is a sizable challenge. Every semester you have to adjust to new class schedules, instructors, classmates as well as learning objectives and requirements for each course. Along with that, you may be juggling school with work, family responsibilities, and social events. Do you feel confident that you can attend to all of them in a balanced, committed way? What will be your secret of success?
SUCCESS BEGINS WITH GOALS
A goal is a desired result that you envision and then plan and commit to achieve. Goals can relate to family, education, career, wellness, spirituality, and many other areas of your life. Generally, goals are associated with finite time expectations, even deadlines.
As a college student, many of your goals are defined for you. For example, you must take certain courses, you must comply with certain terms and schedules, and you must turn in assignments at specified times. These goals are mostly set for you by someone else.
But there are plenty of goals for you to define yourself. For example, you decide what you would like to major in. You decide how long you are going to be in college or what terms you want to enroll in. You largely plan how you would like your studies to relate to employment and your career.
Goals can also be sidetracked. Consider the following scenario in which a student makes a discovery that challenges her to reexamine her goals, priorities, and timetables:
Janine had thought she would be an accountant, even though she knew little about what an accounting job might entail. Her math and organizational skills were strong, and she enjoyed taking economics courses as well as other courses in her accounting program. But when one of her courses required her to spend time in an accounting office working with taxes, she decided that accounting was not the right fit for her, due to the higher-stress environment and the late hours.
At first she was concerned that she invested time and money in a career path that was not a good fit. She feared that changing her major would add to her graduation time. Nevertheless, she did decide to change her major and her career focus.
Janine is now a statistician with a regional healthcare system. She is very happy with her work. Changing her major from accounting to statistics was the right decision for her.
This scenario represents some of the many opportunities we have, on an ongoing basis, to assess our relationship to our goals, reevaluate priorities, and adjust. Opportunities exist every day—every moment, really!
Below is a set of questions we can ask ourselves at any turn to help focus on personal goals:
What are my top-priority goals?
Which of my skills and interests make my goals realistic for me?
What makes my goals believable and possible?
Are my goals measurable? How long will it take me to reach them? How will I know if I have achieved them?
Are my goals flexible? What will I do if I experience a setback?
Are my goal controllable? Can I achieve them on my own?
Are my goals in sync with my values?