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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 trade’s 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: Navnidh Brar

Career Name: Pharmacist

1. Education required and or recommendations: Grade 12 math, biology and chemistry


and physics is recommended
2. Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: UBC, UFV, University of Alberta,
University of Guelph and University of Waterloo

3. Cost of training in Canadian $ (full program cost for all years): $65,000-$100,000

4. Salary range: the entry level of being a pharmacist is $37,323 and it goes up to
$93,000 a year so that is $48 an hour

5. Job description: pharmacists need to prepare medicine that has been prescribed to
the patient, than they need to prepare the dosage of the certain medicine
prescribed, than they need to explain when and how to take the medicine.

6. Number or people employed in this occupation (indicate whether the number refers
to BC or Canada) BC or Canada (circle one) there are 42,000 licensed
pharmacists in Canada

7. Employment prospects: pharmacy is a good career path to choose because there


will not be a shortage of pharmacists. Projection for 2015–2024 is for 11,800
pharmacists most of this will be due to retirements.
8.

9. Related Jobs (list at least 3):

 Medical assistant, they help out in physician offices and hospitals


 Health information technicians , they organize health information and data of patients
 Pharmacy aides, they help around the pharmacy (ex. Cashier, answer calls etc.)

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10. Skills or characteristics required: pharmacists need to be able to multitask,
have science and math skills, accuracy, communication skills, time management
skills and they need to be precise

11. Disadvantages of occupation: pharmacists can get in a lot of trouble if they are not
precise enough with the medicine dosages that they’re going to give to their patients.
There can also be radioactive medicine

12. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: my
interest in chemistry is a big part on why I want to become a pharmacist; also I have
most of the skills required for being a pharmacist.

13. What courses and grades are needed to enter this occupation? grade 11-12
chemistry, biology or physics (need 2), pre-calculus 11-12, calculus, BSC, PharmD,
pharmacy internship you will need a minimum of a 75% average in all the courses

14. Working conditions: working condition is in a clean and sanitary pharmacy, or a


pharmacy in a hospital or a store (ex. Superstore, Shoppers Drug Mart etc.

15. Typical hours of work: pharmacists work about 40 hours a week but pharmacists in a
hospital are staffed 24/7

16. Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: I am very interested in
chemistry and medicine; I think it’s fascinating how you can be a part of someone’s
journey to recovery.

17. What are the future trends of this occupation: pharmacists will be in demand in the
future because technology cannot replace them.

18. 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. doesn’t show the grades needed to get into the occupation

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2. doesn’t tell future trends

CAREER TWO
Name: Navnidh Brar

Career Name: Registered Nurse

19. Education required and or recommendations: Pre-calculus 12, biology chemistry or


physics 12 (need 2) and 4 years of English

20. Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: UBC, SFU,UFV, Thompson River


University, BCIT, TWU, Sterling collage, Vancouver Career Collage

21. Cost of training in Canadian $ (full program cost for all years): to finish the four
years of BSN it will be $72,000-$104,000

22. Salary range: the entry level position starts at $41,396 than you will go up to
$75,309 and RNs who have been working for a very long time earn up to
$128,026 a year

23. Job description: RNs treat and care for their patients if that is post or pre surgery or
for whatever reason they are in the hospital for RNs also operate medical equipment,
analyze tests and educate the patient on their medical condition they also record
the patients symptoms while their being cared for

24. Number or people employed in this occupation (indicate whether the number refers
to BC or Canada) 34,658 RNs employed in BC BC or Canada (circle one)

25. Employment prospects: 2018-2028 it will be 12%

26. Related Jobs (list at least 3):

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 Paramedic
 Medical Assisting Services
 Dental Assistant

27. Skills or characteristics required: patience, communication skills, attention to


detail, time management skills

28. Disadvantages of occupation: the disadvantages of being an RN are the very long
hours, stress, difficult patience, difficult working conditions, physical demands ( lifting
patients)

29. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: I am a
very patient with people and I like to care for other people

30. What courses and grades are needed to enter this occupation? Bachelor of Science
in Nursing

31. Working conditions: Most RNs work in hospitals and some might work at nursing
home.

32. Typical hours of work: typical hours for RNs are 40 hour work weeks, but being
an RN means doing overtime and working during holidays.

33. Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: this occupation has
influenced me because i think that helping people who are not able to help
themselves is a very humble job to have and having this job I will be surrounded by
medicine which is very interesting to me.

34. What are the future trends of this occupation: future trends for nursing is too grow
15% from 2016-2026

35. 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. doesn’t show the grades needed to get into the occupation

2. doesn’t tell future trends

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TRADES CAREER
Name: Navnidh Brar

Career Name: cook

36. Education required and or recommendations: a high school diploma

37. Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: LaSalle Collage, ICS Canada, CTS


Canadian Career Collage

38. Cost of training in Canadian $ (full program cost for all years): it will be
approximately $8,000 to complete the full culinary program

39. Salary range: the salary depends on which restaurant you work at and what your
experience is in cooking. But the starting point of a cook is $114,000 per year.

40. Job description: cooks need to prep all the ingredients, prepare food for customers
while doing this they need to follow food safety procedures, they also need to assist
other cooks and clean their stations.

41. Number or people employed in this occupation (indicate whether the number refers
to BC or Canada) 31,800 cooks employed in BC currently BC or Canada (circle
one)

42. Employment prospects: employment prospects are accepted to grow 11 percent


from 2018 to 2028.

43. Related Jobs (list at least 3):

 caterers
 Bakers
 Restaurant Managers

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44. Skills or characteristics required: attention to detail, cleanliness, attention to detail,
organized, fast-pace

45. Disadvantages of occupation: unsafe (working with hot oil), long hours, stressful,
competition with other cooks, low pay, physically demanding job.

46. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: I’ve had
experience in restaurants so I know the pressure of how fast pace everything is and
what if feels like to be a cook even though it has been at fast food restaurants

47. What courses and grades are needed to enter this occupation? High school
diploma, cooking related program
48. Working conditions: cooks work in the kitchen under a lot of pressure to cook food
fast.

49. Typical hours of work: cooks are often needed to work early morning shifts all the
way until dinner and work during holidays. A typical work week would be 50 hours
because cooks are required to work during weekends because those are the busiest
days.

50. Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: I really enjoy cooking
and I’ve worked at restaurants before and I know the environment for a cook.

51. What are the future trends of this occupation: cooks will be in demand in the future
because technology has yet to replace cooks at restaurants

52. 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. doesn’t tell future trends

2. doesn’t show the grades needed to get into the occupation

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