Feb 10, 2016

An Emerging Career....

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

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