Conclusion

What career options will there be in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? What can you do now to gain the skills and abilities required by an ever-changing world to ensure your employability?



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B3.7 Chris Hadfield on the space station
In this lesson, you started to investigate what chemistry-based careers there are not only in your current community but also where chemistry-based careers are headed to in the future. You also looked at historical examples of how humans used chemical substances to meet their basic needs.

  Concluding Activity

In this activity, you will create a chemistry-based career advertisement.


Here is a great Alberta website to help you out! Select a chemistry-related career from the list. Find out what it takes to prepare for the job of your choice, including what type of schooling you would have to attend. Learn the expected duties, work conditions, rate of pay, etc. You will then create an advertisement that a company would produce to hire a person for your selected career. Your final product will be submitted as part of your B1 assignment. Remember that you must put information in your own words; if you just copy and paste from the Internet, that is plagiarism!

Include in your advertisement:

  1. the name of the organization placing the ad (Make this a real place that would really need this kind of employee; e.g., Kraft foods, RCMP, etc.)
  2. job title and description (Explain the duties the employee would be expected to carry out.)
  3. education requirements (Does this career require a college or technical degree? How many years of school?)
  4. working conditions
  5. personal characteristics or abilities (e.g., needs to work independently, are innovative, are methodical, etc.) that would be an asset
  6. approximate starting salary (either hourly or annually) and expected advancements
  7. how to contact the employer (Use an actual Internet site where possible, otherwise find the address of the organization.)
  8. an aesthetically pleasing advertisement.

Planning Chart: If you would like, use this planning guide to help you collect the information that is needed. Remember though, you must present your information in a job advertisement.

Here is a copy of the rubric that will be used to mark your job advertisement
 
Exemplars:  Below are some example job advertisements to help you create your own. Remember that you must create your own; if you just copy and paste from these, that is plagiarism!
Exemplar 1
Exemplar 2
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