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TASK

Search and present findings of an occupation. Approve your specific career with the instructor. Identify educational requirements, salary, job description, and occupational outlook for a specific career. Follow the guidelines for each report section as described below.

1. Use an APA report format to write the information (use the template Research Report)
2. Minimum two pages, single-spaced. ( not including the reference page and appendix)
3. Provide headings for each of the requirements
4. Provide at least one graphical representation of data.

Guide to Writing Your Research Report

Your Research Report should be divided into sections with these headings: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and References.

Cover Page

• Write the Career Title
• Write the title of the project; ( Research Report)
• Write your names with student IDs
• Write the name of the course
• Write the name of the college.

Introduction: the "WHY" section (one paragraph)

• state the purpose and rationale for your project
• state why it is important to address this question
• State the methods used. Use the following script.

• Our group processed the information of 5 current job ads and compared and contrasted the information provided from (3), websites, journal articles, newspapers etc.

Results: what did you find? (min: 2 pages)

Provide information on the following subheadings.

1. Salary (How much does this job pay on average?)
2. Educational Requirements (What kind and how much education do you need for this type of career?):
3. Job Description (What do they do?)
4. Occupational Outlook (Are there any job openings for this career, what is the outlook?) Settlement.ca
5. Personal Characteristics/Abilities Needed for this Career NOC
6. Advantages:
7. Disadvantages:
8. Working Conditions (Inside, outside; lifting or not; hours; etc.

• Present the clear, concise, and comprehensive answers to your research question that were drawn from your various sources
• Present any other findings that are meaningful and very aligned to your research question
• Use text, tables, and graphs (minimum = 1). Try to summarize all of your sources in a table, if possible. Otherwise, you may draw specific data sets (graph, table, etc.) from the articles, just be sure to properly cite the work!

References (minimum 5 in-texted cited sources for Secondary)

• Include as a separate page at the end of your paper
• Whenever you use information from other sources you must include the author's last name and the year of publication for the source in the text, e.g., (Jones, 1998), and a complete reference should be listed at end of your paper. (see APA guide sheet for more explanation)

Sources you might use for this project

• National Occupational Classification - Canada.ca
• Glassdoor Job Search | Find the job that fits your life
• WorkBC - Jobs and Careers
• https://www.indeed.ca/
• Workopolis | Home
• https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/
• https://www.monster.ca/