NAME: Kyle Werth

GOALS PLANNING OUTLINE

TIER #1: LIFESTYLE GOALS
Determine what your priorities are for your day-to-day life during your career.

1.) Manage Stress I plan to have the ability to adequately manage my workload to a point where stress/burnout is
not an issue.

2.) Financially Secure


3.) Maintaining Good Health Exercising regularly and eating properly.


4.) Leisure Being able to set aside time to take a break from work and enjoy leisurely activities.


5.) Overall Happiness - It is extremely important to be happy with my career.



TIER #2: CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
List the careers you eliminated from your FOCUS assessment and describe why you eliminated them.

1.) Agricultural Sciences Professor I chose to eliminate this career path because it simply does not suit me. The
three majors do not cater to my interests/knowledge/skill set. I would be scratching my head for most of the time.

2.) Sportswriter To echo my first reasoning, this field is beyond my expertise. Sports do not interest me enough to
take up a career. While I do like journalism, I would find myself in another field.

3.) Landscape Architect I feel that with this career, there is not much room for creativity and using ones personal
intellect and artistry. It feels too limited and confined to a single path to finish a goal. I prefer to be in a career where
there are no limitations.

4.) Fashion Coordinator I have no desire to pursue a career in fashion.


5.) Architecture Professor While I do think the idea of teaching is quite fascinating, if I were to do so it would not
be in architecture.


I dentify the careers that would work with your lifestyle goals (be sure to include specific examples from the
positions you researched as potential career paths).

1.) Editorial Writer, Newspapers & Magazines I have always expressed a desire to work as a writer. I feel my
personal strengths lie in writing, no matter which type. I have had some hands on work with newspaper/magazine
editing.

2.) Screen Writer As previously stated, I would like to pursue a possible career that involves writing. While this
may be a bit taxing, and may not necessarily meet my lifestyle goals, I would be pleased to be working in this field.

3.) Writer/Author Being an author would meet my lifestyle goals. It would not be too taxing, and I feel that I
would have the creative freedoms that I so desire in my career.

4.) Radio & TV News Commentator I have also wanted to pursue a career in radio. There would be little stress
involved and I would be content.

5.) Reporter While I this would not be my most popular choice, I still would want to work within TV, and I feel
being a reporter would be an enjoyable job. Reporting for a news station is something I could see myself interested,
although my main preference would be behind the camera.



TIER #3: NECESSARY SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS FOR CAREERS
I dentify one career option you researched and address the following.

Career Option #1: Editorial Writer, Newspapers, and Magazines

What are the basic/minimum qualifications:
For those who deal with technical or specialized topics, a background in that field--computers,
business, law politics, etc. is essential.


What skills are they looking for?
Fine Arts, Listening, Managing Time, Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Reasoning,
Writing and Authoring


What type of experience is needed? What background are they looking for?
A bachelors degree in communications, journalism or English and with a broad liberal arts
background.


What does the description say youll be doing and what will the ideal candidate look like?
Attend conferences & events regarding issues & topics that are currently of concern to readers
of a newspaper or a magazine. They gather and interpret facts and information for an issue
The ideal candidate is extremely artistic, very investigating and social with a very strong
influence on others to change their attitudes, behaviors, and opinions.

I dentify a second career option you researched and address the following.

Career Option #2: Screen/Writer

What are the basic/minimum qualifications:
Most employers prefer to hire screen writers with a bachelors degree in communications,
journalism, or English and with a broad liberal arts background. For those who deal with
technically specialized topics, a background in that field is essential.

What skills are they looking for?
Fine Arts, listening, problem solving, reading comprehension, reasoning, writing and authoring.


What type of experience is needed? What background are they looking for?
Experience needed includes having a bachelors degree in communication or a related field.

Background would include experience in their related field whether that be technology or arts.


What does the description say youll be doing and what will the ideal candidate look like?
They creatively author scripts for actors for motion pictures and TV based on themes intending
to produce viewer moods, such as suspense, humor, sadness, mystery, etc.


They review the proposed plot outline with the movie or TV show producers or directors. They
modify the proposed plot based on feedback from these executives.




I dentify a third career option you researched and address the following.

Career Option #3: Writer/Author

What are the basic/minimum qualifications:
Most employers prefer to hire writers with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts.


What skills are they looking for?
Listening, Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Reasoning, Writing and Authoring



What type of experience is needed? What background are they looking for?
Degrees that emphasize communications or English provide for the best training. Courses in all
sciences would be helpful as well.



What does the description say youll be doing and what will the ideal candidate look like?
As a writer/author, the idea is to entertain, educate, and inform others.

They develop original work for a wide array of media and may specialize in fiction or nonfiction,
which may include educational and informative materials.


After researching all three career options, what are the similarities? What are the reoccurring skills, traits, etc.?

The degrees needed were similar. Experience in science and English was a necessity as well.

All three jobs include writing.

All of the careers look for the same skills.


TIER #4: INVOLVEMENT/STEPS TO OBTAIN SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
I dentify one involvement opportunity that will help you gain the reoccurring skills, traits, etc. identified from
your research in Tier #3.

I nvolvement Opportunity: Working for WZND

What skill or experience are you obtaining with this opportunity? Explain how.

Skill/Experience: Familiarized with radio, working in the media, & comprehension.


How? I feel that being on the radio builds great confidence in the sense of building an audience and
accepting your voice will be provided to masses. Radio builds off the foundations taught at the school of
communications.





I dentify a second involvement opportunity that will help you gain the reoccurring skills, traits, etc. identified from
your research in Tier #3.

I nvolvement Opportunity: Take a cinema studies course

What skill or experience are you obtaining with this opportunity? Explain how.

Skill/Experience: Reasoning, authoring, and possible screenwriting.


How? A film class would be a great insight on the proper construction of a script, story structure, and so
forth. I t would also be a plus to study film and learn the ins and outs.




I dentify a third involvement opportunity that will help you gain the reoccurring skills, traits, etc. identified from
your research in Tier #3.

I nvolvement Opportunity: Work for the Vidette

What skill or experience are you obtaining with this opportunity? Explain how.

Skill/Experience: Writing and authoring, editorial, comprehension.


How? Ive previously worked for a schools newspaper (Heartland) and it was a lot of fun, but tackling
a bigger audience would be a great challenge as well. I feel it would be a great launching pad to a professional
career.


TIER #5: SEMESTER & COLLEGE GOALS
Set a goal for when you will be involved in each opportunity outlined in Tier #4.

I nvolvement Opportunity #1: WZND

When will this be accomplished? The first step is to get in contact with WZND and apply for a spot. This outcome
will TBD.


I nvolvement Opportunity #2: Cinema study class

When will this be accomplished? Registration is on the horizon, so I will look into a film class.


I nvolvement Opportunity #3: Vidette

When will this be accomplished? J ust like WZND, this would require applying for the job. But I am highly
considering trying it out as soon as I can.