For this assignment, you are to research and about the profession you are interested in pursuing, its history, its current state, and your rationale for pursing it.
To begin, you are to look online for newspaper articles, professional websites, and government databases which discuss your profession. In total, you are looking to collect five (5) secondary sources. One of these sources must be from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov.
Once you have collected these five sources you will then summarize them. This processes of actively reading and thoroughly summarizing each source will enable you to compose an overall, in depth, professional summary.
To begin this professional summary, compose an overall statement, a sentence which captures what the profession is all about. Next, discuss the profession’s origins, how and why it began, and how it has evolved over time. Then, discuss what the profession is like today, including what is typically done in the workplace, what the work environment is like, how one enters into this profession, what the median salary is, and what is the profession’s future outlook. (You should find this information on the BLS website.) Lastly, you are to reflect and compose a rationale for why you are pursing this profession, detailing what skills and talents and experiences you have that fits within this profession and what kinds of contributions you could make to enhance or improve this profession.
Overall, this professional summary should be straightforward, detailed, and clear, totaling 1-2 single-spaced pages. Be sure to cite your sources in the text and include a works cited page after your summary.
Note: This summary is to cover a profession, not a job. For your next writing project, you are to center your attention on specific job within this profession and for your last writing project you are to apply for a specific job within this profession. However, for this project, you are to summarize the history and current state and your rationale for pursuing this profession, broadly defined.
JOB I WANT: Software Development
