During a process of reviewing the careers that students are saving in My
Planner on EUREKA.ORG and to Favorites on EUREKA Express we discovered
that the top 10 occupations were ones that most of us are very aware of.
This is good because some of them are very much in demand such
as Nursing and Police Officer. But we wondered if the choices are based
upon students simply not exploring other lesser known possibilities.
One
career that is not widely known is Bioinformatics Scientists. We
developed this career description in 2008. This is a truly
interdisciplinary field.
It is a career that combines many
personal characteristics from personality, skills and interest
perspectives. The work includes technology, plant and human life
research, and the creation of new forms of medications. It's an emerging
career with much demand.
When working with your students and
clients you may want to try asking them to review the list of
occupations in EUREKA, and just pick out one that they know nothing
about and research it. This may open up new ideas for them. This idea
may really work well in a group or class environment.
Click this link to learn more about this career:
http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/features/2014/06/explosion-bioinformatics-careers
