ARCHITECTURE - DISCUSSION TOPICS
WHAT CAREER IS RIGHT FOR ME
The goal of this exercise is to find a career that suits your passions as well as your natural talents and acquired skills, to learn about what it takes to get in to that career, and what you can expect from that career.
When you are finished doing your surveys, you should print each of the results as pdfs and save them to your Google Drive class folder. You will end up with 3 pdfs: Reality Check Results, Interest Profiler Results, and Occupation Summary.
- To start you will need to take the Reality Check test to figure out what kind of salary you need to make in order to live the lifestyle you want to live. You can do this at https://texasrealitycheck.com/. Click on the Start Your Reality Check button, take the 15-part test, and save/print the results as a pdf.
- Next you need fill out a questionnaire over what you are passionate about and what you are good at. Go to https://texascareercheck.com/ExploreCareer/InterestProfiler. Take the 4-part test and print the webpage as a pdf. Also, look through the Interest Profiler career list and pick one that matches your interest, salary preference, and projected openings preference, then save/print that Occupation Summary as a pdf.
When you are finished doing your surveys, you should print each of the results as pdfs and save them to your Google Drive class folder. You will end up with 3 pdfs: Reality Check Results, Interest Profiler Results, and Occupation Summary.
CAREER RESEARCH - WHAT DOES A CAREER IN ARCHITECTURE LOOK LIKE?
Research the various jobs, positions, and salaries that comprise a career of your interest.
You can use these websites to aid in your job search:
Jobs.com
Job.com
Monster.com
CareerBuilder.com
Indeed.com
LinkedIn.com/Jobs
You can use these search terms to aid in your job search if you are interested in an Architecture career:
(Architectural/Engineering) Drafter
Architectural Intern
Architecture
Designer
(Lead/Senior) Architect
Project Manager
As you are looking up your jobs, open up a Word document and take notes on the details of each job.
For each of the 5 jobs you should list on you Word document the job's:
Title:
Location:
Responsibilities: (Summary, Description)
Requirements:
Compensation: (Pay, Benefits)
Process: (for applying for the job)
Source: (URL for the website where you found the job)
When you are finished looking for jobs, write a summary of what you learned; discussing the top 5 jobs that you find available. Try not to research the same type of job more than one. Follow the format given in the downloadable pdf below for writing your summary.
You can use these websites to aid in your job search:
Jobs.com
Job.com
Monster.com
CareerBuilder.com
Indeed.com
LinkedIn.com/Jobs
You can use these search terms to aid in your job search if you are interested in an Architecture career:
(Architectural/Engineering) Drafter
Architectural Intern
Architecture
Designer
(Lead/Senior) Architect
Project Manager
As you are looking up your jobs, open up a Word document and take notes on the details of each job.
For each of the 5 jobs you should list on you Word document the job's:
Title:
Location:
Responsibilities: (Summary, Description)
Requirements:
Compensation: (Pay, Benefits)
Process: (for applying for the job)
Source: (URL for the website where you found the job)
When you are finished looking for jobs, write a summary of what you learned; discussing the top 5 jobs that you find available. Try not to research the same type of job more than one. Follow the format given in the downloadable pdf below for writing your summary.
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INDUSTRY RESEARCH
Search through current periodicals and industry publications for current events and news. Present what you have learned.
HOW TO BECOME CREATIVE
The following video will give you a background understanding of how we will help you to become creative. This video will show you how ideas are formed and what the role of education is in becoming a person that is able to create new and innovative ideas. Our classes will follow this process as we seek to expand on the knowledge base that is already out there in the world. As you watch the video fill in the blanks of the downloadable pdf below.
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FINANCIAL PLANNING
The video below will not only help you to learn a little about how to use Excel, but it will help you to create a powerful tool that you can use to make sound financial decisions. When you are finished you need write a 3 part summary of what you learned using the format in the pdf worksheet below, and staple it to a print out of a 15 year portion of this spreadsheet you completed.
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THE FORMULA FOR ARCHITECTURE
The following video will explain to you the major elements of Architectural design and what you should be thinking about when you are designing your projects. When finished watching the presentation, you can write a 3-part summary of what you learned using the same format as in the previous discussion topics, or you can research 2 famous Architectural projects and create your own PowerPoint quiz slides to match the ones in the presentation.
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