Find the Occupational Outlook Handbook online from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Pick two different careers you are interested in. Find both in the Occupational Outlook Handbook. If your career choice is not listed, choose the next closest career you can find. Learn about the career (you may also use other sources—cite them!) and answer the following questions for both career choices.  

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/

1. What career did you decide to research? Why did you pick this career? What is your opportunity cost of pursuing this career?  ( pick something like business/farmer/comedian or anything )

2. What type of personal traits work best for people in this career? Do you have these traits or can you develop them?  

3. What type of education, training, and/or experience is needed for this career? What steps have you already taken towards these? What are the next steps you should take? How will you go about taking financing and taking the next steps? 

4. What is the expected starting salary for this career? What are the expected mid-career earnings? 

5. What type of working conditions and lifestyle can you expect in this career? Do you think this is a good match for you? If so, why? If not, why not?  

6. Does your research suggest that demand for people in this career is increasing, decreasing, or expected to stay the same in the future? Is the supply of workers in this career increasing, decreasing, or relatively constant? Given these demand and supply conditions, do you think it will it be easy or difficult to find a job when you are ready to start this career?  

7. What are some changes (e.g., technological, economic, political, etc.) you expect to affect the industry of your career choice over the next 5-10 years? How might these change the supply and demand conditions from your previous response? 

8. How do higher education levels in a nation contribute to higher levels of economic growth? Do you believe your career field of choice contributes to higher levels of economic growth (at an aggregate level? 

9. Use marginal analysis to determine whether you think it would be wise to pursue this career. What are the marginal costs and marginal benefits?  

10. Given what you learned, are you still interested in this career? If so, why? If not, why not?  

11. Do you think it would be a good decision for Joseph to switch careers into your chosen career choice? Why or why not?  ( Joseph is my Macroeconomics professor )

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You identified the people you need for the project team, talked with the various department heads, and shared the time and skill requirements. All the departments are able to provide people to the project at the levels needed. The person from Design who normally participates heavily in this type of project, however, is on leave for the first six months of the project. You and the department manager were able to agree on replacing the one full-time person with two part-time people. The first person will be able to work on the project approximately 15 – 20 hours per week and can cover the tasks that require more design expertise. The design department manager has instead offered the following people from whom you can choose to cover the remaining tasks:

Russell Smith – design specialist. Russell is in the same role as the person leaving but for a different product line. Russell is new to the company; however, he has been involved in creating a similar product at a prior company but in a more junior role. Russell is available to the project approximately 15 hours per week.

Katy Jones – marketing specialist. Katy has been with the company for many years and is very familiar with the specifications, design implications, and production risks of many of the existing product lines, including one very similar to the new product. Katy is normally in a more senior design role on projects, which is the role being filled by the other person. Katy is available to the project approximately 10 hours per week.

Write a memo (about five paragraphs long) to your manager describing your options, your recommended staffing decision, the possible risks or difficulties that may come from your choice, and how you will address those risks/difficulties. Describe how you will pull this person into the project team and get their buy-in on the project’s charter and their role on the project.

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Although this product is being targeted at the home consumer, the sales department thinks there is great potential in the commercial market, and it should be pursued. You brought this issue to the project sponsor who, in turn, brought it to executive management. Management decided that this opportunity should be investigated as part of your project. It would like to see an opportunity assessment completed that defines the new markets, potential revenues, high-level sales and marketing strategy, and a 5-year financial business case with initial expenses clearly defined. They have agreed to provide additional resources (people, funding, and time) to create this new deliverable. You need to tell them how many people you will need to complete this deliverable within the next 6 weeks. You can assume that the people will be allocated to work on this deliverable a maximum of 20 hours per week.
Create a schedule focused on the creation of this new scope item. The schedule should include the following:

• A list of tasks that will need to be completed
• Dependencies between tasks
• Total estimated effort to complete each task
• Resource assignments
• Start and end dates

The schedule should contain between 25 and 60 tasks/subtasks. Use Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, or any other appropriate tool to document your schedule. You will also need to define the team members you will need. For each team member you will need, create a bulleted list of skills/expertise he or she must have to complete his or her assigned tasks. Please submit your assignment.

Homework is attached. Please complate all parts of assignment. Thanks!

mportance of Theory and Research in Child Development

Prior to completing this journal assignment, please read Modules 1and 2 in your textbook, view the “Endless Questions” video, and review any relevant Instructor Guidance. You may want to look specifically at the interactive media tools demonstrating information on theory which are provided in the Section 1.5 (within Module 1) of the textbook.

In a Journal entry of 500-1000 words, begin by reflecting on this anecdotal phrase that one might hear, “I did that with my children and it worked fine for them.”  Describe your own thoughts about this statement and explain why this may be true in some cases, but not in others.  You may use personal experiences or examples to support your evidence-based statements and opinions, if you wish.

Then, watch the “Endless Questions” video analyzing child development research and find one additional scholarly source of your choice (see tips and a link to tutorials below) and use them to reflect on and answer the following questions:

• Why is it important to utilize developmental theory to explain a foundational knowledge of children’s development?
• What makes scholarly research different from anecdotal evidence (or personal experience) in explaining child and adolescent development?  [Hint: Consider the methodology of the article you are reading.
• Identify and briefly describe the key points of one of the major developmental theories and why you feel that theory is applicable to child and/or adolescent development.

Finally, relate the value of continued learning with a concluding reflection on why we should incorporate both personal experience and scholarly research grounded in theory to help support any statements made in this class or any other professional setting.

You are required to utilize at least one additional scholarly source not from this week’s required readings (including, but not limited to, the multimedia in the recommended resources for Week One).  You must cite all of your sources (including the video embedded above) in proper APA style.  If you are unsure how to create an APA style reference page, please visit the Citation and Reference page on the Ashford Writing Center website. Aside from the video embedded in the prompt, you are to find one other scholarly through the Ashford Library website to help support your reflections in Part II.  View this great tutorial provided by the Ashford University Library which will show you how to find scholarly articles and how to assess the scholarly quality of the resource. 

NOTE: As you are completing your searches in the library search engines, check the boxes in the search engines of the library for scholarly, peer-reviewed sources. This allows you to find resources that have been evaluated by a number of experts in the field and do not represent just one person’s opinion.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your journal entries.