As you have heard from our guest speakers, you will probably have more than one job or career in your lifetime, but you have to start somewhere, so choosing subjects for your final years at school will help you to head in the right direction. You have completed the myfuture.edu.au survey which has given you an idea of the type of work personality you have and it has listed a wide variety of jobs that you might find rewarding that suit your work personality.
Activity 1: Choose two jobs you are interested in and do some research about the careers. See if you can find your career on myfuture.com you may need to join up, but it is a free service for students looking at career pathways or on the Good Universities Guide. Once you are in the website, take notes (remember this is dot points) on the Career Research Template about important information such as education and training required; salary; average hours worked per week; what the job entails; what future job prospects there are. This will help you when completing your Task 4: Career Pathways Planning.
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One of the most important things about finding information and research is ensuring that the information you have found is reliable, credible and valid (you will see these terms again next year in Research Project). To determine these things it is important to complete a source analysis of any place where you find information. This is not just looking at the information, but looking at the source of the information (the place you found it). For PLP sources can be websites; books; magazines and people. Students must always look for reliability, credibility and validity in a source to determine if it is trust worthy.
Reliability - This is used to determine the accuracy of information
- Numerous trusted sources report the same information
- The source has been checked using “Who? What? When? Where?
- The publication date of the information is relevant and appropriate to the career you are looking at
- Where the article was originally published is relevant and appropriate to the career you are looking at, is it current?
Determining if information is reliable, credible and valid requires students to look at more than one source. For Task 4 you will need to analyse at least 3 sources. We will do a practice analysis using a template which you can use for your assignment.
Activity 2: Determining credibility, reliability and validity of sources. Complete the activity as a class group.
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Activity 3: Source Analysis - Scenario: You have decided to become a Chemical Engineer. The class will work together to create the first source analysis using the SATAC Guide. Students will then find at least 2 different sources which give information about being a Chemical Engineer. (Hint 1: You may want to start by Googling "How do I become a Chemical Engineer") Once you have found 2 sources fill out a Source Analysis Template for each of them. (Hint 2: To determine reliability of your first source, you will need to see what information is in the other sources)
Use the reference generator on Library Online to put in a correct reference. Your teacher will go through this with you. Please save your finished Source Analyses in your folio to assist you with your Task 4. |
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