Criterion E: Evaluate

Criterion E: Evaluate
I enjoyed learning about creating career plans and taping a university entrance video. Overall, I think that my result, which was a video, turned out quite well. I managed to include necessary information without making it too long. While editing my video, I figured out how to use Windows Movie Maker and managed to create a well thought out video. Although there was one word cut off near the end of the video, no matter how much I tried to edit it, it wouldn’t be heard clearly. I also think I could have filmed the clips all at the same time, so that the lighting didn’t change from clip to clip. For an official university entrance video I would try to find a better camera in record with so that my voice doesn’t sound fuzzy or as if I am sick. When I first started filming I had to repeat filming clips because I kept messing up and didn’t feel comfortable talking to a camera. I would probably find it better as a person to person interview with the school, but I understand that sometimes colleges require an entrance video.
I received feedback from Reeza and Jill. They both agreed that the video was good, except in the beginning they thought it was annoying that I shook my head to one side. They said that my pronunciation was clear and I included everything that they thought was necessary. Jill said I sounded like I was sick, but she thought it was the microphone on my webcam. Overall, they thought it was good and not many improvements were suggested.

Criterion A: Investigate (Evaluation)
I found this step in the design cycle to be the hardest out of all the steps because it required you to actually think about your interests and discuss them. In real life, I don’t really think of them as hobbies, its just counted as part of what I do to entertain myself. I’m also more of a personal person and do not like to talk about all my interests in detail. For example, jewelry making, is a hobby of mine, but not many people know about it and I don’t feel comfortable describing in detail why I enjoy it and count it as one of my interests. I’m not sure why I don’t like to, but it’s always nice, in my opinion, to keep some things to yourself that you like to do alone. You were supposed to come up with roughly ten interests and describe why you like them and enjoy them. In the end, I only came up with eight after long thinking. I could have improved by giving at least two more interests and describing all of my hobbies in more detail. While I was completing criterion A, one person asked me why a lot of school subjects were listed as some of my interests. I think it is necessary to be interested in some school subjects, otherwise how are you going to figure out what type of job you want. For example, my strongest subjects are in math and science, so I would try and find an occupation that uses these subjects. Overall, I think it was tough to talk about my interests, but it showed me in a clearer picture of what I was interested in and how it can help me to figure out my future.

Criterion B: Design (Evaluation)
For the design step, we were required to choose an occupation that we would like to do when we are older and figure out what education we need to get there. Also, we needed to find out what would make us successful in that particular business. For this step, I chose an Anesthesiologist because I have been thinking of working in the medicine industry and would like a job that deals with pain. I thought this was the perfect job for what I wanted to do because you get to inject the patients with strong pain medication to relieve their pain. I joined this step with the create step because they were roughly the same. I thought I did a good job on researching for design and I learned a lot of new things on how to reach my future career goal.

Criterion D: Create (Evaluation)
I think I enjoyed this step out of all the other required steps, which included investigate and design. For this I just followed the sample career plan, but created mine about what I have to do in order to become an Anesthesiologist. Personally, I think I did well during this step, but I possibly could have described more in detail of what I have to do. I found it interesting trying to find a college or university suitable to obtain the degrees I need to become a certified Anesthesiologist. Although I found out that I would need to be at school for a long time, I think I am willing to be committed to this to reach my career goal. Overall, I think I specified clearly what requirements and experience I had to have in order to become an Anesthesiologist.

Impact on my life
I think this was a good unit to learn more about reaching your career goals and what you have to do in order to get there. We also learned more about making an entrance video and got to get familiar with what colleges ask and look for, such as volunteer work or interesting hobbies. This will help us later in life to find a suitable college for our needs and help us to realize what type of degrees we need to obtain. Before making an official university entrance video, I think it was good to have the practice with filming and editing the videos, as well as choosing which program we should use.