What career or company would would I want to work for?
What is the occupational outlook for this career? Occupational outlook includes serveral concerns:
- Career Path:
- What education do I need?
- What experience should I have? How do I get experience?
- Advancement:
- Will I need further education later?
- What are salaries like? What can I expect to make? Is this a stable career?
Determine current issues in the profession or career?
There are many ways to think about current issues, but something from the business world called a SWOT analysis might be helpful.
- Strengths
- Established markets
- Sucessful products
- Positive public opinion
- Weaknesses
- Depending on an established product or process
- Lack of diversity
- Opportunites
- New markets
- New products
- New demand
- New techniques or skills
- Threats
- Shrinking market
- Legal issues
- Work force does not not meet need or demand
