Career Exploration
4) Identify and analyze the career pathways in art and design professions and the industries in which art and design professionals work, including but not limited to manufacturing, specialized design services, publishing, and advertising. Cite supporting evidence from multiple sources (such as interviews with design professionals retrieved from industry magazines), to produce a chart or other graphic detailing the aptitudes and training needed for at least three careers of interest. For example, outline the typical requirements needed to become a graphic designer, including personal aptitudes and secondary and postsecondary training required. Devise a tentative career plan to reach employment goals. (TN Reading 1, 2, 4, 7, 9; TN Writing 2, 6, 8, 9)
5) Compile and analyze real-time and projected labor market data from public sources such as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to explore local and regional occupational opportunities and trends in design careers. Synthesize collected data to develop an informational artifact comparing occupations by job availability, salaries, and benefits. (TN Reading 2, 4, 7; TN Writing 4, 6, 9; TN Math S-ID)
What I want you to know:
Standard 4
The categories of visual communication careers and the pathways you could take to be employed in them
The skills and educational requirements necessary for those careers
Standard 5
The opportunities, trends, job availability, salaries, and benefits in design careers
Assignment:
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Research careers in visual arts and design. One might be a photographer, a graphic designer, and animator, a web designer, sign maker, etc. Complete, well-written sentences get a better grade than fragmented responses.
Complete the following steps:
1. Day 1. List 2 careers. Cite the sources you used.
Write a sentence (or more) describing each career.
2. Day 2. Click on Graphic Designers in the Occupation column. Click on the What They Do tab. List 5 things a person in this field might do. Click on How to Become One.
What is the education level usually required? List 5 important qualities in this career.
Critical thinking, on your own.....List 2 courses you might take at Hillwood that could help with this career.
Click on the Pay tab. What is the median income for this career? Click on the Job Outlook tab. What is the projected growth outlook for this career in computer systems design and related services?
Cite your sources.
3. Day 3. Come up with this on your own–List 3 steps (a career plan) you will need to complete to enter this career. There is one “must have” for you to work in this field. Take a guess and list your guess as one of the 3 steps. I will tell you what this “must have” is at the end of the assignment.
