Write Your Own Career Research Report

If you are contemplating which particular career path (and/or a particular college major) to pursue, you might consider investigating particular ones that interest you the most in more detail. Learning more about a particular career, occupation, or major is a common strategy within the exploration and research stage of the career planning process.

The following provides a way to organize the information that you find concerning your career and/or major. I’m sure that checking out the guidelines below will compel you to write up your own “Career and/or Major Research Report.”

Note: If you are interested in a particular college major and find that related information is lacking, then you might want to choose a career path that is typical for that particular major and do research for that career instead.

Guidelines

Before collecting references and resources pertaining to your career and/or major, think about the following questions:

• How and why did you come up with the career or major that you want to research further?
• How interested are you with this particular career/major? Have you already chosen this career/major or is it among several that you are interested in?
• How much do you already know about this particular career/major?

In researching your career/major, consider the following information:

• Description
• Work environment
• Skills and personal characteristics
• Related careers and occupations
• Necessary preparation
• Job outlook
• Earnings
• Professional associations
• Any additional pertinent information

Reflect on how any new pieces of information impact your current interest level for the career/major that you are researching. Ask yourself:

• Did you learn anything that further solidifies your interest level?
• Did you learn anything that concerns you?

Finally, identify what pieces of information you need to follow up on, if any.

Check out the following related post for a list of examples of career research reports on a variety of careers and majors:

• Examples of career research reports

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