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Let’s Explore Jobs!

Let’s Explore Jobs!. Nicole Adam- AGED 410, Fall 2012 CLF 821 Choosing A Career (B-1, B-2, B-3) . What Fields of Work Are Out There?. Agriculture Processing : Involves processing and distributing food. Examples are butchers, egg processing, plant workers, cheese processing workers.

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Let’s Explore Jobs!

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  1. Let’s Explore Jobs! Nicole Adam- AGED 410, Fall 2012 CLF 821 Choosing A Career (B-1, B-2, B-3)

  2. What Fields of Work Are Out There? • Agriculture Processing: Involves processing and distributing food. Examples are butchers, egg processing, plant workers, cheese processing workers. • Horticulture: Involves landscaping, floriculture, turf management, propagation, bio-technology, and nursery management. • Forestry: Involves producing and harvesting timber, managing forests and reforestation . • Rural Recreation and Natural Resources: Involves working with renewable resources such as wildlife, water and soil. • Production Agriculture: This involves actually raising field crops, poultry, fruit, vegetables, or livestock. • Agriculture Mechanics: This involves planning and construction buildings, machinery maintenance, welding, electrical work and plumbing. • Agriculture Sales and Service: This involves occupations such as veterinarian, farrier, ag commissioner, equipment dealers, feed dealers, ag flying, and an ag lender. • Agricultural Marketing and Business Management: Involves business economics related to agriculture, developing markets for agricultural products and successful marketing of those products.

  3. It’s Your Turn! “Lets Brainstorm Career Choices!”

  4. What did You decide? Career Idea Further Education? • Leave me blank for now  • Enthusiastic • Organized • Knowledgeable • Enjoys long hard days • Nurturing • Doesn’t mind going through a lot of school • Loves animals • Good at Working with hands • Ag Leadership • Every class! • Ag Business • Plant Science • Animal Science • Ag Mechanics • Ag Teacher • Vegetable or Fruit Farmer • Veterinarian • Ag Mechanic Skills and Abilities High School Classes

  5. How do I get these Skills? Vocational Institutes: Train students in areas such as diesel mechanics or horse shoeing. Courses are intensive and rely heavily on practical experience and may be completed in 1 year. http://bit.ly/OBco7i http://bit.ly/QGfmGc

  6. Community Colleges prepare students to go on to a State University or receive enough training in certain areas to obtain jobs • A larger variety of classes can be taken than at a Vocational Institute. • A program of study is generally completed in 2 years. • Some community colleges have great Agricultural Programs! http://bit.ly/U6W1l2

  7. State Colleges and Universities • Require 4 years to complete • Allow students opportunities to obtain employment in areas such as engineering, education, nutrition and economics. • A 4 year degree can broaden job opportunities and increase wage earning power. • A degree of this type can lead into graduate work to obtain an advanced degree such as PhD, MD, DVM or MBA. • You need to go to a university if you want to be a vet 

  8. It’s Your Turn! Bring your attention back to “Let’s Brainstorm Career Choices!”

  9. What did You decide? Career Idea Further Education? • State University and credential program • Comminity College • State University • Apprentice • State University and Graduate School • Vocational Institute • Enthusiastic • Organized • Knowledgeable • Enjoys long hard days • Nurturing • Doesn’t mind going through a lot of school • Loves animals • Good at Working with hands • Ag Leadership • Every class! • Ag Business • Plant Science • Animal Science • Ag Mechanics • Ag Teacher • Vegetable or Fruit Farmer • Veterinarian • Ag Mechanic Skills and Abilities High School Classes

  10. Video here • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPwFj3jecR0

  11. It’s Your Turn! Lets brainstorm career choices!

  12. Why Brainstorm Careers? This worksheet will help you discover what skills and abilities are necessary for the career in agriculture you choose.

  13. STEP #1 X Your occupational goal. I intend to have a career in: a. Agriculture Production ______ b. Agriculture Supplies and Services _______ c. Agriculture Mechanics _______ d. Agriculture Products and Processing _______ e. Ornamental Horticulture _______ f. Natural Resources & Rural Recreation _______ g. Forestry _______ h. Marketing or Agribusiness _______ i. Other agriculturally related occupation. Specify:_________________ j. Undecided - in agriculture _______ k. Undecided - not in agriculture _______ X X X X X X X X X

  14. STEP #2Let’s Narrow It Down Even More If you have narrowed your occupational goal to a more specific occupation or kind of work than the broad categories listed in #1 Agricultural Production

  15. STEP #2Let’s Narrow It Down Even More If you have narrowed your occupational goal to a more specific occupation or kind of work than the broad categories listed in #1 Agricultural Supplies & Services

  16. STEP #2Let’s Narrow It Down Even More If you have narrowed your occupational goal to a more specific occupation or kind of work than the broad categories listed in #1 Agricultural Products & Processing

  17. STEP #2Let’s Narrow It Down Even More If you have narrowed your occupational goal to a more specific occupation or kind of work than the broad categories listed in #1 Ornamental Horticulture

  18. STEP #2Let’s Narrow It Down Even More If you have narrowed your occupational goal to a more specific occupation or kind of work than the broad categories listed in #1 Forestry Natural Resources & Rural Recreation

  19. STEP #2Let’s Narrow It Down Even More If you have narrowed your occupational goal to a more specific occupation or kind of work than the broad categories listed in #1 Marketing or Agribusiness

  20. STEP #2Let’s Narrow It Down Even More If you have narrowed your occupational goal to a more specific occupation or kind of work than the broad categories listed in #1 Agricultural Mechanics

  21. STEP #2Let’s Narrow It Down Even More If you have narrowed your occupational goal to a more specific occupation or kind of work than the broad categories listed in #1 Undecided in Agriculture? Undecided not in Agriculture? It’s Ok! Don’t stop looking! You’ll Find Out If You Try New Things!

  22. STEP #3 Please indicate your plans after graduation from high school: • Go to work fulltime with college later. _______ • Continue my education at a Vocational or Technical school _______ • Continue my education at a 2-year college. _______ • Continue my education at a 4-year college _______ • Attend college part time and work part time _______ • Attend adult evening classes _______ • Go into the service _______ • Other, please describe __________________________________________ • Go to work fulltime with no further education.

  23. STEP #4 Planned Occupational Experience Program: Describe your project, its size and your future plans: • Year I: • Year II: • Year III: • Year IV:

  24. STEP #5 Planned FFA activities. List the FFA activities which you have participated in or plan to participate in: • Year I: • Year II: • Year III: • Year IV:

  25. Don’t Forget Our Key Terms! • Vocational Institutes • Community Colleges • State Colleges & Universities • Don’t Forget to Review for the Test! 

  26. Keep Your Options Open! You have time to decide what you want to do! Just keep looking and trying new things!

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