Career Selector Choice: Adoption Counselor

Job Description
What do people in this career do? They help children find safe homes and loving parents who will guide them into their adult lives.
What skills do people in this career have? flexible and patient, good sense of humor, good sense of humor,

Working Conditions
Where do people in this career work? In offices, mostly visiting children at their homes.
What kind of hours do they work? Do they work days, nights, shifts, overtime, how many hours per week or day? They work during the day but depending on the situation they might have to work weekends, and work late at night to get the job done.

Interview Person Name: Bev
Day in the Life
Three important work activities this person performs during the day
1. Drive to an adoptive family’s home.
2. Arrive at the home; greet the prospective parents; ask them to sign adoption placement papers; visit and get an update as to how the placement is going.
3. Drive back to the office.

Breakdown of Activities
Three activities this person spends the most time on
1. On your feet
2. working alone
3. working with numbers

Likes and Dislikes
What does this person like about the job? I also enjoy having the opportunity to meet with and learn from people with different life experiences from my own.”
What does this person dislike about the job? The required paperwork can be overwhelming. It includes social histories, home studies, life book work, case notes, various referrals, day care subsidy forms, intake forms, [and] general correspondence, to name but a few.”

What are three things that you think are good about this job?
1. Helping people
2. Meeting new people
3. Seeing a child begin to attach and trust their adoptive family
What are three things you think are bad about this job?
1. work by yourself a lot
2. Don't interact with co-workers much
3. Paperwork
Could you see yourself doing this job in the future? Why or why not? Right now I could not see myself doing this career, maybe when I'm older and have more experience in other types of work similar to this type.

Principles

Explain how principles determine consequences.

Principles: natural laws or fundamental truths that operate without our understanding or acceptance.

Integrity: to be true to your feelings, values, and commitments.

Honesty and Loyalty are principles because when they aren't followed bad consequences happen. For example, when the girl disses her friend she didn't follow her principles of honesty and loyalty, and the consequences was that Jack got mad at her.
When she stood up for Jack and she told them she was a freshman she had semi-good consequences.



My Principles:
Responsible - Depending on the situation the consequences vary from write-ups to detentions.
Prepared - If i'm not prepared then everything goes wrong.
Respect - When I am not respectful I get scolded and I feel guilty.

First Career: Agent
Suitable For You: Yes
What are the Central Aspects of this career? Selling, Negotiating, Persuading.
What are the Central and Secondary Aspects to which you answered Like or Like Very Much? Making financial and other business-related calculations, Considering the feelings, views or behavior of others, Assessing the financial value of goods, buildings or services, Using the telephone or two-way radio .
Which Aspects did you answer Dislike or Dislike Very Much to? None

Top Ten Career: Child and Youth Worker
Suitable For You: Yes
Write down the Central and Secondary Aspects to which you answered Like or Like Very Much. Working with children and teenagers, helping people, persuading.
Consider feelings, provide service, help others with social and personal problems,

Your Career Choice: Child and Youth Worker
Aspect: Working with older children and teenagers.
Example:

Senior Project Observation

- My favorite project out of all of them was Vivian Romero's Project. No I did not only picked it to be the best because she's my friend but also because I think that it was the most creative. She designed all of her dresses from scratch with only guidance from her mentor. She tried to make it the most creative and most professional fashion show she could. She used music, make-up, and acrylic nails for her models to make them look good but above all, she made the dresses she designed look good, awesome, fabulous.

- I have to say my least favorite was the dog walking project. In my opinion it was my least favorite because it didn't seem very exciting or interesting.

1. (Vivian Romero, Fashion Design)
Q. What was the biggest problem you encountered during your project?
A. The biggest one was that my sewing machine broke.

2. (Vivian Romero, Fashion Design)
Q. What did you do to fix the problem of your sewing machine?
A. I had to go stay with my grandma to be able to continue with my dresses and not fall behind in my work.

3.(Vivian Romero, Fashion Design)
Q. Now having more experience with this kind of work how can you prepare yourself next time so you won't have any major problems?
A. Definitely to have a back up of different materials, and a sewing machine.

4. (Beatriz Gamboa, Nail Technician)
Q. What was the biggest problem that occurred with your problem?
A. I didn't manage my time well.

5. (Beatriz Gamboa, Nail Technician)
Q. Do you plan to pursue this as you career?
No, maybe as a career but not as a career.