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Art Professions Research Project
 

This is a project that will have a number of steps that will ultimately culminate in a formal interview.

1. This is a multicomponent research project. You will be doing individual work as well as team work.

2. You will complete two worksheets to familiarize yourself with effective searching techniques and evaluations of websites.

Searching Strategies

Evaluating Web Pages

3. You will investigate a particular Art Profession with a group of students who have the same chosen profession. You will as a team put together a presentation with each of you writing two particular pages addressing the career questions and a separate page that outlines your personality and how it might work with this selected career.

Career Interests Game - Before you begin your selection you will discover your personality type. Click the link to begin the game. Make sure you keep your answers for later application in your presenation. Go back to the game page and make a list of ten careers from this list. From these careers compare them to a list from Fast Growing Occupations and find which careers match this list. You may not find your career documented. Each member of your team is to write a two page report agreeing or disagreeing with the following statement: "The most important consideration in choosing a career is whether the career is a fast growing career."

4. From the following list select a career to investigate. Each member of the team must choose a different occupation. Use the links listed to begin your research, but do not limit yourself to these links only. Use your web searching and evaluating skills to find information on your chosen career.

You may choose from the given list of Art Professions

  • Advertiser
  • Architect
  • Art Teacher
  • Fashion Illustrator
  • Furniture Designer
  • Graphic Designer
  • Interior Designer
  • Art Critic
  • Museum Curator
  • Photograph

 

4. You will submit a resume to the interviewers. The resume must appear to be professional and convincing.

Art Career Resume Lesson

5. You will show a portfolio, real or invented. If the portfolio is invented a check list of possible goals to help you acquire this profession must be presented.

6. These elements will be shown to me in the form of an interview for an invented position with an invented panel for possible hiring in my pretend corporation. See below for the link to the interview guidelines.

Interview Questions and Check Off List

My Research Team Presentation

You will first select an art profession to research. You need to address the following information:

1. What characteristics would a possible interviewer be looking for to hire for this art profession?

2. What is entailed in being a professional at this career, such as training, experience and education?

3. List details of the job such as:

a. Availability

b. Salary

c. Traveling Needs

d. Weekly time commitment

e. Competitiveness in the market

f. Benefits

g. Any other information yoou might need to address before wanting to pursue this career

4. List some important people in the field and what they have done.

5. Unexpected Positive or Negative Aspects of the profession.

6. List some schools that specialize in teaching for this profession.

7. List reasons why you might be suited for this profession.

Each team member should indicate their three letter personality type and whether the career they investigated would suit their personality type better or worse that the imaginary person they created.

Remember, your report is to be a multimedia report. You may use PowerPoint, HyperStudio, or any other presentation software. While you are collecting information about the career you chose, make sure you also select images which can be used in your presentation.

Art Professions Presentation Rubric - for evaluation criteria

Useful Links

America's Career InfoNet

Work and Career - usnews.com

Occupational Handbook - U.S. Department of Labor

BLS Career Information - Bureau of Labor Statistics

Job Star Central

Economic and Employment Projections - U.S. Department of Labor

Keyword Search - U.S. Department of Labor

 

Learning to Search the Internet for good information effectively is a skill. Start your research by learning how to do this by practicing techniques necessary to refine your online searching of information and data. After you have found your information each site should be analyzed for its relablity. Information from a unreliable source can be misleading and unfounded.

Note your paper should be in Helix Style format with appropriate MLA citation. You must cite 3 sources and it must be two pages double spaced.

Copyright ©2003 by Christine Colera.