Find your passion

Before choosing a career, it is important to know yourself. What are you passionate about? What are you good at? What are you interested in learning more about? How much schooling do you want to do? How much money do you want to make?

These are all essential questions when looking in to the important step of choosing a career. People say, "If you love what you do, you never really work a day in your life." I think that is true, so let's find something you love!

Watch the TED Talk by Scott Dinsmore and fill out the watching guide on a Google doc.

What to Be? What to Become?

Is there something you always knew you were going to become? Is there something you know you might not experience, but would really love to? Like that amazing dream job that maybe seems more fantasy than reality?

Now's your chance to look more specifically at two careers you think fit you splendidly. But don't limit yourself. And don't keep your thinking inside the box! Shoot for the cosmos!

*My suggestion: Pick one career you see as a no-brainer and then one that's so amazing/extraordinary/peculiar that your judges' interest will be piqued as well

Assignment #2: Hard and Soft Skills

Step 1: Read the information below about hard and soft skills

Before you begin writing, you will need to identify your hard and soft skills. It is important that you identify these skills now because they will be referred to multiple times throughout your paper (namely in the memoir and argument sections).

So, what's the difference? [click here]

• • Hard Skills: skills and talents that you can prove and measure. These include typing speed, speaking a foreign language, knowing calculus, being able to rebuild a motor, knowing how to an bake apple pie, and so on and on and on and on. These skills are endless.

  • Soft Skills: personality skills and traits that allow one to interact with others in a harmonious/effective way. There are two types of soft skills:

    • • 1) Virtue Skills (like patience, compassion, courage, selflessness, etc)

        • • • For a list of virtue skills: click here

      • 2) Professional Skills (like showing up on time, working well with others, and being motivated, etc.)

        • • • For a list of professional skills: "Eight Keys to Employability" [click here]

Step 2: Open a Google Doc and do the following:

• • 1. List your five most defining hard skills

    2. List AND explain 2-3 of your most important Virtue Soft Skills from the "Virtue Project" [click here]

    3. List AND explain 2-3 of your most important Professional Soft Skills from the "Eight Keys to Employability" [click here]

• You may open the example below and make a copy to utilize the formatting that is already there.

Step 3: Turn it in to SLATE.

Research Performance Task #1

Step 1: Watch the two instructional videos.

Step 2: Choose two careers you are interested in pursuing after high school.

You can use the website Next Steps Idaho to help you figure those out.

Step 3: Make a copy of the Google Doc assignment "Career Chart"

Step 4: Conduct research and maintain your sources. USE INTERNAL CITATIONS AND A COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY!

Step 5: Print it out and compare it to the example below. Revise.

Step 6: Submit it to SLATE.

See an example of what the Career Chart should look like.