Unit 6 Assignment - Job Market Research

Due Date: Sunday of Unit 6 Total Points: 100 Overview: As you continue your career exploration, this assignment will allow you to explore the career that you have worked on the past two weeks and perform a deep dive into the finding an actual position and salary. You will need to use either of the 2 salary websites and the job search website to complete this task. Instructions:

1. You will not complete a paper for this assignment. You will put your work directly into the Submission box found in the assignment link.

Using Indeed.com and either Salary.com or Glassdoor.com to perform some research, please address the following questions for the assignment:

1. Explore Indeed.com and find an actual position in your home state. This should be the same position you have been exploring for the past several weeks.

a. What is the name of the company or organization? b. What state is it in? c. Estimated salary if available?

2. Then go to either Salary.com or Glassdoor.com and perform a search for the position, state, and determine their salary listing. If there was no listing in the position on Indeed.com compare Salary.com and Glassdoor.com

a. Is this salary lower or higher than the job posting? b. Do any of these salaries coincide with your work from the Occupational Outlook

Handbook from your Career Exploration paper?

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Job Market Research Assignment

Be sure to read the criteria, by which your paper/project will be evaluated, before you write, and again after you write.

Evaluation Rubric for Job Market Research Assignment

Novice 0-59% Fair 60-69% Competent 70-79% Proficient 80-89% Superior 90-100%

CONNECTION &

DISCLOSURE

Grade Weight: 90%

Student demonstrates no self-examination; provides no analysis or connection to course materials, outside experiences, and does not answer all questions

Student demonstrates a superficial self- examination that provides minimal analysis, lacks in connection to course materials, outside experiences, and answers a few questions thoroughly

Student demonstrates a guarded self- examination that provides little detail in analysis, which loosely connects to course materials, outside experiences, and answers most questions thoroughly

Student demonstrates a cautious self- examination that provides a detailed analysis that somewhat connects to course materials, outside experiences, and answers all questions

Student demonstrates a candid self- examination that provides an in-depth analysis connecting to course materials, outside experiences, and answers all questions thoroughly

WRITING MECHANICS

Grade Weight:

10%

Writing contains severe errors which make work unreadable or hard to follow. There are ten or more errors in punctuation and/or capitalization; Font incorrect and not double spaced

Writing contains multiple incorrect sentence structures. There are four or more errors in punctuation and/or capitalization; Font incorrect and/or not double spaced

Writing contains structural weaknesses and grammatical errors. There are three or four errors in punctuation and/or capitalization; Font incorrect or not double spaced

Sentence structure is generally correct. Some awkward sentences do appear. There are one or two errors in punctuation and/or capitalization; Paper uses 12pt. Times New Roman double spaced

Sentence structure is correct. Punctuation and capitalization are correct; Paper uses 12pt. Times New Roman double- spaced