FOODS & NUTRITION CAREER EXPOLORATION
Agricultural
Manager
Public
Health Educator
Recipe
Developer
Restaurant
Manager
Restaurant-Supply
Salesperson
Social
& Human Services
Assistant
Weight-Loss
Counselor
Food
and Nutrition Writer
Food
Editor
Food
Historian
Food
Photographer
Food
Processing Occupation
Food
Scientist
Food
Service Manager
Food
Technologist
Kitchen
Designer
Party
Planners
Pastry
Chef
Agricultural
Scientists
Baker
Banquet
Manager
Caterer
Chef
Community
Health Nurse
Consultant
Dietitian
Cookbook
Author
Dietitian
FACS
Teacher (vocational)
Fitness
Trainer
DIRECTIONS: Look up a Nutrition career in the Occupational
Outlook Handbook
at http://www.bls.gov/oco/ and fill out the following information. If you find and use other resources, be sure
to list the source on your paper.
Working Conditions
What are the working conditions for this career?
Employment
How
many people have this career? In what fields do they work?
Job Prospects
What
is the projected employment future for in this career? Are more or less jobs projected?
Earnings (How much money can
a beginning person expect to make in this job?)
What
is the median (average) salary? (If median salary is not available, list the
median hourly earnings instead.)
Related
Occupations (Other careers that may be similar to this one.)
Choose
a related career to find out about. Which career did you select?
Nature
of the Work (What workers do on the job)
For
the related career you chose, what does the person do?
Education
and Training (How much education does a person need to do this
job?)
For
the related career you chose, what is the minimum education or training needed?
SPECIAL NOTE:
For
different types of job the Occupational
Outlook Handbook tells you:
the training and education
needed
earnings
expected job prospects
what workers do on the job
working conditions
CAREER
EXPLORATION
CAREER
NAME________________________________________________________
1. What are the working conditions for this
career?
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2. What do workers do on the job?
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3. How many people have this career/job?
___________________________________________________________________
4. What is the projected employment future for
in this career?
__________________________________________________________________
5. How much money can a beginning person expect
to make in this job?
___________________________________________________________________
6. What is the median salary?
____________________________________________________________________
7. What is the minimum amount of education
required for this job?
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8. Where can you receive this training or
education?
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9. What other additional education is suggested
to advance in this career?
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10.
What other careers are related to this career?
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11.
On the back of this paper, list other web sites you researched for this career
and list
additional information you learned from them.
