Career PowerPoint

ROLE: You are a recruiter for a specific company. Your job is to visit high schools and try to convince students that the career you are representing might just be for them!

ACTION: Convince people to consider your career!

FORMAT: You will be creating a slide show about this career in Microsoft PowerPoint.

TOPIC: This project will increase your awareness about careers you might be interested in, and will also help you become aware of other careers as you watch your classmates' shows.

Use these sites to find info about specific careers after you've decided on a job you might be interested in:

http://stats.bls.gov/search/oco_s.asp Occupational Outlook Handbook
www.acinet.org/acinet/oview.htm Career Outlooks
www.careermosaic.com More career info

Keep in mind that you can also use Career Cruising and Keytrain to find out information about the careers.

CONTINUE BY CREATING A SLIDE SHOW TO SHOW THE CLASS:
• Create a new presentation or use a template.
• Choose a slide layout.
• Apply a design template (the pretty background) from the format menu if you did not use a template (alternative: you can use a background from the Internet).
• Create your title slide (this is not included in the slide minimum) by typing in your title.
• Create new slides.
• Add your wording to these slides. Pressing tab makes the words indent and get smaller. Pressing Shift+Tab together takes you back to the left side, with large words.
• Add pictures to these slides by choosing Pictures from the insert menu. Change to the drive and directory you have pictures in.
• Add a movie for extra credit the same way.
• Add transitions between slides by choosing Slide Transitions from the Tools menu. All slides must have transitions.
• Add animation to your text and graphics (again, from the tools menu). Each slide must have animated text.

Remember to save frequently, view your presentation often, and have fun!

Your presentation MUST be at least 15 slides. Think about things that you can tell other students to convince them to choose a certain career. You should include working conditions, salary, educational requirements, etc.
You must also have the following:

1+ graphic per slide

Words/text must move (text animation) one item at a time

Transitions between every slide

3 to 5 groups of words (bulleted items) per slide