Career Planning Interview

For this activity, you will learn about the world of work and career planning from those actually out there: adults.

Interview an adult who has worked in the same type of job for at least 10 years using the following questions:

1. What is your job?
2. What skills did you need to get your job?
3. What education did you need?
4. How did you get your education and skills?
5. Have you had to do additional training to keep current in your job?
6. Do people being hired now have to have different skills and training?
7. Where and how are they getting their training?
8. How have job responsibilities changed since you first worked in the field?
9. Why do you think your responsibilities have changed?
10. Are there more people being hired in your field from diverse backgrounds?
11. How do you see your job changing in 10 years? 20?
12. Why do you think your job will change?
13. What education and skills will be needed then?

With their information, write a short story about the person you interviewed (can be fiction or non-fiction). This can be first or third person, but should reflect how society has changed over the span of the interviewed person's life experience. Include cultural trends, societal changes, and differing family expectations.

This lesson was located at http://financeintheclassroom.org/passport/eighth/lang_art.shtml#choice Links to an external site. on July 24, 2014.