This document provides information on several career paths including anesthesiology, interior design, and family and marriage therapy. For anesthesiology, it describes the tasks of relieving pain before, during and after surgery and tools like the anesthesia machine. It also outlines the education path of focusing on science classes in high school and college before medical school. For interior design, it discusses conferring with clients on design preferences and using tools like scales and scanners. Knowledge areas include design, customer service and construction. Family and marriage therapy involves counseling clients on relationships and difficulties through active listening, oral communication and problem sensitivity skills while working indoors and in contact with others.

1. Career
Planning
By: Danielle Lichtman

2. Anesthesiology
 Tasks:
 Anesthesiology is the practice of medicine dedicated
to relieve the pain and the total care of the surgical
patient before, during, and after surgery.
 More than 25 million surgical procedures are performed
each year in the United States.

3. Tools & Technology
 The anesthesia
machine is not a
machine that
makes anesthesia.
It has three major
components: a gas
mixing and delivery
system; an
anesthesia

4. Knowledge
 High school students can prepare for a medical career by
concentrating on advanced science classes such as
biology and chemistry.
 College students interested in a medical career should
complete liberal arts requirements but plan a pre-med
course of study.
 You need 4 years of medical school and/or matched into
an anesthesiology program (4-years)

5. Skills you need …
 Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are
saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking
questions as appropriate
 Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and
paragraphs in work related documents.
 Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths
and weaknesses of alternative solutions.
 Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other
individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take
corrective action.
 Science - Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

6. Abilities, work activities
 Oral Comprehension — The ability
to listen to and understand
information.
 Problem Sensitivity — The ability to
tell when something is wrong or is
likely to go wrong. Than being able
to fix it.
 Written Comprehension — The
ability to read and understand
information and ideas presented in
writing.
 Identifying Objects, Actions, and
Events — Identifying information by
categorizing, estimating, recognizing
differences or similarities, and
detecting changes in circumstances
or events.
 Monitor Processes, Materials, or
Surroundings — Monitoring and
reviewing information from materials,
events, or the environment, to
detect or assess problems.
 Making Decisions and Solving
Problems — looking over information
and solving results to choose the
best solution.

7. Work Context
 Work With Work
Group or Team
 Exposed to Disease
or Infections

8. Interior Design
 Task: •Confer with client
to determine factors
affecting planning interior
environments, such as
budget, architectural
preferences, and purpose
and function.
 Tools and
Technology:
 Tools used in this
occupation:
 Scales — Architects'
scales; Drafting scales;
Electronic scales
 Scanners — Three-
dimensional laser digitizers
 Tablet computers —
Graphics tablets

9. Knowledge
 Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools,
and principles involved.
 Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of
principles and processes for providing customer
and personal services.
 Building and Construction — Knowledge of
materials, methods, and the tools involved in the
construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other
structures such as highways and roads.

10. Skills & Abilities
 Active Listening — Giving
full attention to what
other people are saying,
taking time to understand
inappropriate times.
 Speaking — Talking to
others to convey
information effectively.
 Understanding written
sentences and
paragraphs in work
related documents
 Visualization - The ability
to imagine how
something will look after it
is moved around
 Near Vision - The ability to
see details at close range

11. Work Activities & Work Context
 Getting Information
— Observing and
receiving.
 Thinking Creatively
- Developing,
designing, or
creating new
ideas.
 Telephone - How often
do you have
telephone
conversations in this
job?
 Face-to-Face
Discussions- How often
do you have to have
face-to-face
discussions with
individuals or teams in
this job?

12. Family and Marriage Threapy
Tasks
•Ask questions that will
help clients identify their
feelings and behaviors.
•Counsel clients on
concerns, such as
unsatisfactory
relationships, divorce and
separation, child rearing,
home management, and
financial difficulties.
Tools & Technology
Tools used in this occupation:
Notebook computers — Laptop
computers
Personal digital assistant PDAs or
organizers — Personal digital
assistants PDA
Photocopiers — Photocopying
equipment

13. Knowledge & Skills
 Therapy and Counseling
Knowledge of principles,
methods, and procedures
for diagnosis, treatment,
and rehabilitation of
physical and mental
dysfunctions, and for
career counseling and
guidance.
 Psychology - Knowledge
of human behavior and
performance; individual
differences in ability,
personality, and interests;
learning and motivation.
 Active Listening — Giving full
attention to what other people
are saying, taking time to
understand the points
 Social Perceptiveness — Being
aware of others' reactions and
understanding why they react as
they do.
 Judgment and Decision Making-
Considering the relative costs
and benefits of potential actions
to choose the most appropriate
one.

14. Abilities & Work Activities
 Oral Comprehension — The
ability to listen to and
understand information.
 Oral Expression — The ability
to communicate information
and ideas in speaking so
others will understand.
 Problem Sensitivity — The
ability to tell when something
is wrong or is likely to go
wrong.
 Speech Clarity — The ability
to speak clearly so others
can understand you
 Establishing and
Maintaining Interpersonal
Relationships — Developing
constructive and
cooperative working
relationships with others,
and maintaining them over
time.
 Assisting and Caring for
Others — Providing
personal assistance,
medical attention,
emotional support, or other
personal care to others
such as coworkers,
customers, or patients.
 Documenting/Recording
Information — Entering,
transcribing, recording,
storing, or maintaining
information in written form.

15. Work Context
 Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — How often does this job
require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions?
 Telephone — How often do you have telephone conversations in
this job?
 Face-to-Face Discussions — How often do you have to have face-
to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job?
 Contact With Others — How much does this job require the worker
to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or
otherwise) in order to perform it?