This document contains information about Jaclyn Meneilly, including her foundation building blocks, work values, learning style, and potential career matches. It discusses six careers - accountant, speech language pathologist, occupational therapist, budget analyst, human resources specialist, and clinical psychologist. For each career, it provides a job description, typical day, required education and majors, as well as projected job openings, median salary and education level. It then provides Jaclyn's analysis of how each career could be a potential match for her skills, interests, and values.

1. By: Jaclyn Meneilly

2. About Me
Careers

3. My Foundation Building Blocks
Cooperation:
Integrity/Honesty: • Getting along with
• Making ethical choices friends
• Acknowledging efforts • Working with
others on projects
Reasoning:
Responsibility:
• Understand relationships between
• Meeting project deadlines
objects
• Following a schedule
• Using knowledge to solve problems
• Doing HW/getting to class on
time
Foundation Blocks to Develop
Communication:
Self-Management: • Giving class presentations
• Scheduling your day • Writing essays, reports, short
• Setting priorities and goals stories and poetry

4. Work Values
My Top Three Work Values are:
1. Achievement- Jobs that let you use your best abilities and can see
results from efforts. Jobs that can give a feeling of
accomplishment.
2. Relationships- Jobs that have you serve others and have friendly
co-workers. A job where they don’t make you do anything that
goes against your sense of right and wrong
3. Working Conditions- This category is particular to your work
style. Whether you like to work alone or with others. You also
may want to consider pay, job security, and good working
conditions.
Unique Qualities
• Good with kids
• Listen to others and can give advice
• Studious and organized

5. My Learning Style
My Learning Style Visual. This means that I learn best by:
• Creating vivid mental images
• Working with pictures and color
• Using graphics like films, slides, illustrations, diagrams, and
doodles to reinforce learning
• Asking for written directions
• Visualizing spelling of words
Lifestyle Choices
Some of the top personal traits and values in my life are:
• Helping Others
• Knowledge
• Excitement
• Public Contact
• Stability with some variety

6. • Job Description: As an accountant you are to analyze financial information
and prepare financial reports to determine or maintain record of
assets, liabilities, profit and loss. Also maintain other financial activities within
the organization.
• Typical Work of an Accountant includes:
– Preparing, examining, or analyzing accounting records, or financial
statements to assess accuracy, and conformance to reporting and
procedural standards.
– Establishing a table of accounts and assigning entries to proper accounts.
– Analyzing different aspects of the business to project future
revenues/expenses or give advice.
• Different Majors that you can obtain for the job:
Accounting, Finance, Business Administration/Management, Hospitality, Public
Administration and more.
• Facts and Figures:
– Projected Job Openings (2010-2020)- 452,100
– Median Salary- $62,850
– Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree

7. • Job Description: Assess and treat persons with speech, language, voice, and
fluency disorders. May perform research related to speech and language
problems.
• Day in a Life:
– Help people with different disorders with different communication
systems, such as, sign language, lip reading, or voice improvement, and teach
them how to use them.
– Can work in schools with children or in hospitals
– Educate family as well as patient about various communication techniques
and topics
• Majors: Speech Pathology, Special Education, Communication
Disorders, Developmental, Educational, or Clinical Psychology, American Sign
Language and more.
• Facts and Figures:
– Projected Job Openings (2010-2020)- 52,300
– Median Salary- $69,100
– Education Level- Master’s Degree

8. • Job Description: Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs
that help build or restore daily living skills, which help with general
independence, and help people with disabilities or developmental delays.
• Day in a Life:
– Plan, organize, and conduct therapies for those who need help because of
injury, illness, or psychological or developmental problems.
– Evaluate patients abilities to determine realistic goals for them.
– Perform activities with patients to help them learn life-management and
daily skills within their mental and physical capabilities.
• Majors: Communication Disorders, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Musical
Therapy, and Kinesiology etc.
• Facts and Figures:
– Projected Job Openings (2010-2020)- 57,100
– Median Salary- $73,820
– Education Level- Master’s Degree

9. • Job Description: Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and
conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyze budgeting and
accounting reports.
• Day in a Life:
– Direct the preparation of monthly or special budget reports.
– Summarize budgets and submit recommendations on whether to
approve fund requests.
– Review operating budgets to analyze trends that affect the budget’s
needs.
– Provide advice and assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and
budget preparation.
• Majors: Accounting, International Business, Statistics, and Finance
• Facts and Figures:
– Project Job Openings (2010-2020)- 19,600
– Median Salary- $69,090
– Education Level- Bachelor’s Degree

10. • Job Description: Perform activities in the human resources area. Includes
employment specialists who screen, recruit, interview, and place workers.
• Day in a Life:
– Prepare and/or maintain employment records that pertain to
hiring, termination, leaves, transfers, or promotions.
– Inform job applicants about the details of job; such as duties and
responsibilities, compensation, benefits, schedules, working conditions, or
promotion opportunities.
– Address employee relation issues: concerns, allegations, and complaints.
• Majors: Human Resources Management, Industrial Management, Operations
Management, Health Administration, Organizational Behavior Studies.
• Facts and Figures:
– Projected Job Openings (2010-2020)- 165,300
– Median Salary- $54,310
– Education Level- Bachelor’s Degree

11. • Job Description: Diagnose or evaluate mental and emotional disorders of
individuals through observation, interview, and psychological tests, and formulate
and administer programs of treatment.
• Day in a Life:
– Interact with patients/clients to help them gain insight, define goals, and plan
action to achieve personal, social, and educational development and
adjustment.
– Identify psychological, emotional, or behavioral issues and diagnose
disorders.
– Counsel individuals or groups regarding problems, including stress, substance
abuse and family situations to better the person’s situation.
• Majors: Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Child Development, Human
Development, Neurobiology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and more.
• Facts and Figures:
– Projected Job Openings (2010-2020)- 82,300
– Median Salary- $67,880
– Education Level- Doctorate Degree

12. • Accountant: I find that this career could be a match for me because I’m a very organized
and methodical person. I like the idea of keeping things organized for others and am very
good at math. The work styles and values of this career I have and would like to build
upon as well. I like the stability of this career but feel that I would miss the idea of
interacting with others on a daily basis.
• Speech-Language Pathologist: I find this career as a fit for me because it involves me
helping people to better their lives. I find that the work values of this career match mine
and the work activities important as well. I know what that I would need to learn more
things and be patient in this career but I have the belief that I could do it. I’ve heard of
this career before and now that I know more about I feel that it is more of a match.
• Occupational Therapist: This career is a match for me because it encompasses so many
things in one career. It involves a little medical in helping to rehabilitate people to do daily
functions, but involves some psychology in it as well and education because you're
teaching people these abilities. I find the knowledge needed for the job and the work
activities both interesting and believe that I possess them or the ability to preform them.

13. • Budget Analyst: This career has items that are a good match for me that I’ve never
thought about before. Some of these items include the work styles, knowledge and
activities. I have some of these skills and would actually have an interest in improving on
them as well. I wouldn’t say that this career is my favorite or has a lot of potential, but it
is interesting for me all the same.
• Human Resources Specialist: A career in human resources may be a match for me for a
multiple of reasons. It’s a career that involves organization but you also need to work
closely with people as well. I also like the idea of working in a business in a way that helps
keep the company running with people and organized with information on these people. I
know that is a stigma with this career but I feel that I could overcome it if I prove myself.
• Clinical Psychologist: I find that I like this career because I have a big interest in the field
of psychology. I also really would love a career that will enable to me to help others. I feel I
have to skills to listen, give advice, and have empathy for others; plus I would like to
improve upon these skills and knowledge. I also have a passion to learn more about it. I
also feel that I’d be prepared for the long education of this jobs and the others listed
above.