Career Research Project

Kristen Allen
Mr. Drozdowski
Career Development Period 6
18 March 2020

Career 1: Child, Family, and School Social Worker 

Career Exploration Research Questions:
● What education is needed for this career?
○ To become a Child, Family, and School Social Worker you need a bachelor's
degree in psychology, sociology, or social work. Although, clinical positions
require a master’s degree in social work, and usually social workers must be
licensed by their state. It is important to start taking classes related to psychology
in high school to know the background of the major. Lastly, they typically also
need hours in getting practical experience in family service agencies or other
settings that serve youth.
● What training is needed for this career?
○ In order to succeed in this career, you must have knowledge skills and abilities.
These include being good at communicating with people, such as having
experience in customer service or therapy and counseling. Going along with
communicating well with people, it would be a good idea to study psychology or
sociology. As for skills, you must be good at listening to others without
interrupting, while also being able to talk to them and ask good questions. Being
good at problem-solving comes in handy because many kids like to explore and
get themselves messy, or break something. You must think of a way to make the
child happy along with fixing the problem. For this job, you must love people and
have a good understanding of their actions and understand how to deal with the
issues and help the person in need. Overall, you need to be able to listen,
communicate, and fix issues.
● Where can one find work in this field?
○ Depending on the person, the settings will vary. Some people will work in an
office or elementary school. Others will work with governmental organizations,
residential care facilities, or adoption agencies. People who tend to work in an
office or school typically stay there and stay stationary. While people who work
for agencies tend to be moving around and on the go.
● Who are the largest employers for this career/field?
○ The largest industry in the Child, Family, and School Social Workers field has
the job title of Family services. The employment is at 79,280 people. The
 employment percent is 3.26%. The hourly wage is estimated to be around $20.66
while the yearly wage is estimated to be around $42, 970.
● What is the average starting salary?
○ The average starting salary is about ​$49,470.
● What is the average ten-year salary?
○ Yearly, Child, Family, and School Social Workers make an estimated $50,000
leaving the average ten-year salary to be $500,00.
● What is the nature of the work?
○ Social Workers managers manage the needs of a company’s employees. They
develop and manage employment programs, salary compensation and job
evaluations, benefits, promotions, equal opportunity initiatives, and education and
training programs. In large companies one human resources manager may be in
charge of each of these areas. However, in small or medium companies the human
resources manager may manage the human resources option of the entire
business.
● What are the responsibilities of the job?
○ The typical responsibilities that Social Workers do are the following. Be a​ble to
help individuals, families, and groups of people to cope with problems they're
facing to improve their patients' lives. One aspect of this is teaching skills and
developing mechanisms for patients to rely on to better their lives and
experiences.
● What are some related occupations?
○ There are many similar occupations with job duties very much like Social
Workers. A few are School and Career Counselors, Social and Community
Service Managers, Social and Human Service Assistants, Substance Abuse,
Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors. All of these jobs are alike
because they all deal with helping others.
● Are most of the workers in this field traditionally male or female? Explain.
○ Most of the workers in the social worker field are female. Many male students
who start studying this field drop out and move to different fields. The traditional
role of the profession has entailed working with disadvantaged families, often
headed by lone parents, mostly women. Also, studies say that men’s suitability for
social work is questioned for reasons ranging from emotional capacity to working
with vulnerable children. Lastly, it has a lower salary range than some comparable
occupations.

Potential Employer Research Questions:

● What is the title of the job being advertised?
 ○ The title of the job being advertised is Child and Family Educator. The primary
focus of this career includes conducting weekly home visits to assigned pregnant
women, children and their families to provide health, nutrition and child
development education in an effort to prepare children for school. 
● What is the company name?
○ The company name is the Health Federation of Philadelphia. It was organized in
1982 and incorporated in 1983 to serve as the shared services organization to
support local community health centers.
● Where are they located?
○ They are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are about a forty-minute
drive from Glen Mills.
● What is the starting salary?
○ The starting salary for this job is $42,000 yearly along with many benefits. A few
benefits include dental insurance, Life, AD&D and long term care insurance, Paid
time off including vacation, sick, personal and holiday, and Medical with vision
benefits.
● What education is needed and training?
○ In order to get the job, you must have a CDA credit which stands for child
development associate. You must also have skills and experience with working
with children as well as good social skills.

Career 2: Business Analyst

Career Exploration Research Questions:
● What education is needed for this career?
○ In order to become a business analyst, a bachelor’s degree is required and
sometimes a master’s degree is required. These degrees must be in business,
management, accounting, marketing, or statistics. In order to get this job, typically
the experience of three to five years is required in some type of accounting or
marketing career.
● Where can one find work in this field?
○ This career field is very common and flexible. People are able to work in any
state for a company. Some people tend to work from home but more commonly,
people work in an office with a small group of people. Jobs of a business analyst
vary so while some work alone, others work in groups to express and gather their
ideas. Some people like to work alone while others like to gather the opinions and
thoughts of others. Overall, the job is very flexible as to where one can work.
● What is the average starting salary?
○ According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, business analysts earn a starting
salary of $83,610 yearly.
 ● What is the average ten-year salary?
○ Making an estimated amount of $85,000 a year, the average ten-year salary for
this career is $850,000.
● In which areas of the country could/would one live?
○ In the United States, the best states to live in if you want to be a business analyst
are Virginia, Georgia, Washington, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina,
Alabama, Colorado, or Kansas.
● What is the long-term outlook for this career?
○ The long-term outlook for this career is very good. This field is expected to grow
14% faster than any other occupation. As companies want to control costs this
field gets larger and more competitive. With an expansion like this, many more
jobs may open up, giving lots of opportunity.
● What is the nature of the work?
○ The nature of a business analyst is developing solutions to business problems, and
to advance a company’s sales efforts. They do this by managing, analyzing, and
documenting requirements that will help fulfill the business needs.
● What are the responsibilities of the job?
○ There are many major responsibilities that come with being a business analyst.
This includes assisting business cases, planning and monitoring, translating
requirements as well as simplifying them, and communicating ideas.
● What are some related occupations?
○ Related occupations of a business analyst are system analysts, requirements
engineers, process analysts, and product owners.

Potential Employer Research Questions:

● What is the title of the job being advertised?
○ The title of the job being advertised is Veeva Business Analyst. The primary
focus of this career includes someone who can ​work on different sets of data such
as Alignment, targeting, Employee, Customer, Sampling etc and identify which
integrations need to flow into a new CRM application.
● What is the company's name?
○ The company’s name is e-Solutions Inc. It was founded in 2003. Since then it has
grown a lot and expanded to over 15 operational centers in 5 nations.
● Where are they located?
○ They are located in Wilmington Delaware. They are also in locations such as
Ohio, Florida, Washington D.C, Canada, India, and London.
● What is the starting salary?
○ The starting salary is around $80,000 yearly.
● What education is needed and training?
○ In order to get this job, you must be able to work with different data sets online,
meet validation on data requirements, work with many people, and have good
social skills.