The Assignment

To emphasize the importance of design and development, this class will make use of a Research project. To assist students in better understanding career opportunities in the field of HRD$,$ students will be required to complete a$5-10$ page paper over one of the following HRD career fields: instructional designer, program developer, OD consultant, learning specialist, training facilitator, instructional media, etc. Students will submit the document using $12$ point Times New Roman font, double spaced, with at least $3$ sources sited, using APA format. Completion of this project will count as $20\%$ of your grade.

I strongly suggest beginning your research with two of the most valuable sites on the web that information about jobs, the ONETonline and the Occupational Outlook Handbook. Both of these are US Department of Labor documents that list every job in America that you could possibly have and have identified for you such things as the duties and tasks required of the job, the educational requirements, the KSAs needed to do the job, the job outlook for the future, expected salaries, work conditions, etc. Then, I would also include a search of monster.com or careerbuilder.com which identify current openings and what companies are actually hiring people in the chosen field. With these $4$ sources alone, there is no reason you cannot get a minimum of $5$ pages for your report.

The key though is to start early. You cannot do a quality paper putting all of it off to the last week. Start NOW!

Students may email samples of their work to me for critique and review without penalty as many times as they wish throughout the semester until one week before the end of the semester. After that, all work will be accepted as is$.$