How to Find Information on a Potential Career

Probably the best way to get information is to speak with someone who is actually doing the job in which you are interested. Once you have decided on the job you are going to investigate and have learned a bit about it, you might consider trying to contact someone-in person or over the phone-who does that job and find out firsthand just what the job involves.

After you have Investigated Careers

Now, that you have investigated one or more careers, do the following:

1. Explain why you selected the career(s) you did.

2. If you researched only one career, do you think you would enjoy doing it? If you researched more than one, which one do you think you would prefer? Give your reasons.

3. Do you think you possess the skills and aptitudes for this career? Explain your answer with reference to your own abilities and those demanded by the job.

4. If you applied for a job in this career area, suggest some questions you might anticipate at the interview stage. For each question, what answer would you supply?

5. Write a short letter introducing yourself and state why you might be interested in the selected career.

    

Section 3: Conclusion

In this section, you have looked at ways in which concerned people can fight legal battles in an attempt to keep our environment as clean and as natural as possible. In Lesson 1, you were introduced to a number of prominent environmental groups in order to give you an idea of what sorts of organizations exist and how they operate. Then, in Lesson 2, you examined a couple of actual cases showing these groups in action and illustrating their tactics and what they can accomplish.

Lesson 3, changed focus, giving you an overview of the procedures used to review proposed projects and the chance the public has for input into the decision-making process.

Finally, if you chose to do Lesson 4, you researched one or two career areas related to environmental law-or environmental issues in general.