Fccla Social Workers

Varsha Nair
Skyline Chapter
Skyline High School
Sammamish, WA
Region 4
Career Investigation
Social Worker

Table of Contents
Planning Process 3
Self-Assessment 4
Evidence of Career Research 6
Experiences with Business, Industry, Agencies, and Organizations 9
Samples of Course Work 11
Use of Family and Consumer Sciences Coursework/Standard 12
Career Planning 13
Works Cited 14

Planning Process
Identify Concerns:
  * I am concerned that I may not have enough time to finish this project. Because, I started this late, due to my first project falling apart, I only have three working weeks before the entire project needs to be finished.
Goal:
  * To understand what a social worker does, and how to become one. Also to find out whether being a social worker is a good career option for me.
Form a Plan:
  * Interview a social worker to understand why they became a social worker and how they feel about their job.
  * Job shadow at a social workers office to gain a better comprehension of what a social worker does.
  * Research the duties and the requirements necessary for social workers.
  * Decide whether being a social worker is the right job for me.
  * Finish the entire project before the first week of January.
Act:
  * Interview social worker online, and do research to decide how to become a social worker, duties of a social worker, and whether it would be a good job for me.
Follow Up:
  * Send thank you emails to the social workers who helped me with this project.

Self-Assessment
Live Career: Career Interest Test
First I took a career interest test at livecareer.com. Each question gave three options, and asked which one would I like to do the most, and the least. I have modeled each question as shown below:
#1. Most Least
Write a short story
Be the leader of a large group of people
Teach adults how to read

The test gave me an extremely in depth 14 page report about which careers would be best for me... [continues]

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