What jobs, careers, and industries did you identify as targets for your career exploration?

 

What skills, preferences, and values are important for these targets?

 

Describe major trends and key issues concerning the economic, geographic, and other concerns for your target jobs, careers, and industries.

 

Who are the industry leaders?

 

How reliable and accurate is the information you gathered? How many sources confused your

Findings?

 

What further information do you want to obtain about jobs, career fields, industries, or organizations in order to assess their compatibility with your self-assessment?

 

In the next chapter, you will begin action steps. The first plan of action will involve building connections. Based on your self-assessment and research, list five targets, such as jobs, careers, industries, and/or organizations, in which you want to meet people and build relationships.

 

What would you like to learn more about before choosing a direction or applying for jobs? This might include information about diversity in your field of interest, typical career paths, the need for advanced degrees or further training, types of activities that are common for an entry-level employee, or an overview of a typical day. List three topics for further exploration.

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Q1. What jobs, careers, and industries did you identify as targets for your career exploration? The e-commerce industry is booming. The Covid-19 has pandemic in terms of lock downs and closure of business has made every business to operate or at least have digital presence. Governments and the business encourage to avail online buying of their commodities. As a result, the job of search engine optimizer, the social media manager and the web development are the best careers to choose from. They result in good pay checks and some government has made this industry as tax free for the investors as well as employees. Q2. What skills, preferences, and values are important for these targets? The important skills required in these careers are soft skills or skills to have technical skills like computer literacy, problem solving and creative skills. They tend to provide new ways of doing business. All the website are never same and therefore it is the developer who has to be creative as well as problem solver to do what is required and stands out from the number of choices. Q3. Describe major trends and key issues concerning the economic, geographic, and other concerns for your target jobs, careers, and industries. There are major trends in e-commerce like all business are flourishing who have e-commerce presence like website or app where the goods can be easily purchased. However the security of these websites and apps is at risk as there are intruders who hack and get classified information like trade secrets and recipes which are driving force of these businesses. Geographically the urban centers in the developed countries have adopted the digital tools more quickly and they are earning rewards on them. Whereas the rural and less developed countries are not able to have requisite environment to flourish these business. Q4. Who are the industry leaders? In e-commerce the amazon Inc. and Alibaba stands out. These companies have global presence and are delivering the same quality of goods even in Asia to the South Africa and from Australia to the Europe. Their sales revenue is higher than some developing countries tool GDP. Q5. How reliable and accurate is the information you gathered? How many sources confused your Findings? https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-strategy/most-in-demand-jobs https://www.themuse.com/advice/high-paying-jobs-in-demand-for-future

The above are sources and Linkedin is one of the top notch job hub where millions of people connect to find and sale jobs. The linked in has listed IT jobs as 5th highest sought jobs. The muse has listed many jobs in field of IT as the most sought profession. Further the general knowledge and the news information is also used in answering these website. Q6. What further information do you want to obtain about jobs, career fields, industries, or organizations in order to assess their compatibility with your self-assessment? The other sources of information on career assessment are meeting with HR consultants, the major employers like Amazon, Alibaba and Walmart to discuss what profession people they prefer to hire currently and what are there future needs. Further the general trend analysis is also required from the research firms who have studied the profession in the world to see who will be the top notch job. Further the current salary packages being given by each industry will also need to be checked to see who will the future. Q7. In the next chapter, you will begin action steps. The first plan of action will involve building connections. Based on your self-assessment and research, list five targets, such as jobs, careers, industries, and/or organizations, in which you want to meet people and build relationships. The major sources of these are 1. Linkedin 2. Facebook 3. Yahoo fiance for technical and financial analysis 4. Indeed 5. Glassdoor These websites provide easy connection to all the people around and jobs are available in all types of industry like Information technology, Finance and other engineering sectors.

QB. What would you like to learn more about before choosing a direction or applying for jobs? This might include information about diversity in your field of interest. typical career mths, the need for advanced degrees or further training, gm of activities that are common for an entry-level employee, or an overview of a trawl dav- List three tomes for further exploration. The research journals as well as the Linkedln are important to see which careers and industries are booming. What pay scale each profession offers. Further desired area or country in which we would like to work and what profession are desirable there are important. Please note that area of interest is also important to shine. Three topics that are; 1- Area of interest 2- Type of Degrees required 3- Salary levels offered