This document outlines steps for researching a career, including understanding the difference between a job and career, exploring career options based on interests and skills, and researching specific job descriptions, skills, education requirements, and industry knowledge. Key steps are examining a job description to learn about skills, education, and responsibilities, researching in-demand skills and required versus preferred qualifications, investigating popular degrees and schools for a field, and gaining familiarity with industry terminology, leaders, and publications through information interviews. The overall goal is to land a career that is a good fit based on thorough research.

1. Land the Career You Love
By
Dr. Aikyna Finch
Co-Founder of Changing Minds Online

2. Agenda
 Why is a Career Important?
 Why Researching a Career is Important?
 Steps to Researching a Career
 Job Description
 Job Skills
 Job Education
 Industry knowledge
 Recap
 Offer

3. Why Researching a Career is
Important?
 Career vs. Job
 Career Fit
 Exploring options in industry
 Exploring options by skillset

4. Steps to Researching a Career
 Job Description
 Job Skills
 Job Education
 Industry knowledge

5. Job Description
 First point of interest
 Parts of Job description
 Summary
 Skills
 Education

6. Job Skills
 Required vs. Desired skills
 Natural vs. learned skills
 Technical skills

7. Job Education
 Top schools
 Top degrees / concentrations
 Traditional vs. Adult Learning

8. Industry knowledge
 Terminology
 Leaders in the industry
 Publications
 Companies
 Information interview

9. Recap
 Why is a Career Important?
 Why Researching a Career is Important?
 Steps to Researching a Career
 Job Description
 Job Skills
 Job Education
 Industry knowledge

10. Offer
If you are looking for
Motivation then please listen
to the Empowering Women
Series on 9pm EST every
Thursday Night.
Go to
http://www.changingmindsonl
ine.com to see the upcoming
and archived shows.

11. Contact Information
Dr. Aikyna Finch
dradfinch@gmail.com
www.aikynafinch.com
www.changingmindsonline.com
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