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  1. Hello. My name is Diana Bradley. And this is my career portfolio presentation.
  2. Um So my focus to assessment interests that
  3. I focused on were work personality skills and value
  4. for work. I was given artistic and surprising and social
  5. for artistic. We are considered the creators.
  6. We prefer to be expressive, create new ideas,
  7. create new things, enjoy writing poetry and photography.
  8. For enterprising.
  9. We are the persuaders we enjoy selling promoting leading groups, giving talks
  10. and then definitely enjoying
  11. influencing others and being in leadership roles
  12. for social. We are the helpers. We prefer working with others.
  13. Although we are capable of working with ourselves.
  14. We definitely enjoyed teaching, caring for others, volunteering,
  15. meeting new people.
  16. Which I love to do.
  17. We're highly verbal. We get along in groups and we are extremely understanding
  18. personality. We focus attention on the exploration of new ideas.
  19. Um Again, we love to be creative and find new ways to do things.
  20. Um We are open minded, flexible, committed,
  21. enthusiastic and definitely spontaneous.
  22. Which I am
  23. for values. We love creating
  24. income is definitely a value
  25. for pretty much anybody.
  26. Um You know just making money and being happy helping others. I love helping others.
  27. I love volunteering. Um Just making somebody feel good.
  28. Um And helping somebody succeed in their own life is something I love to do
  29. for skills. Again, helping We love helping listening is a major major thing for me.
  30. Um
  31. A lot of people come to me
  32. with problems
  33. and
  34. I try to help them solve them.
  35. Mm hmm.
  36. So for career options given the entire list
  37. I got weren't really things that interested me.
  38. Um, and a lot of them weren't really narrowed down to anything too specific.
  39. So I decided that I was going to focus on social work,
  40. which actually was my major prior to the surgical tech that I have now.
  41. Um,
  42. Social workers are trained professionals devoted to helping vulnerable
  43. people and communities work through everyday challenges in life.
  44. Their goals and commitments are to advocate and improve lives of families,
  45. individuals, groups and societies,
  46. Salary and projected growth as of right now.
  47. The nationwide average for social work is about 53,000 a year for Connecticut.
  48. It's around 51. Um, you know, fluctuating back and forth.
  49. The projected growth is 12%.
  50. Um, and that's from 2020 to 2030 with about 78,000 openings yearly.
  51. And this is a current job listening for social worker.
  52. Um actually a program coordinator and this is in Newington and it's
  53. showing um higher average actually about 88,000 a year to 1:15,
  54. which is amazing.
  55. And if you need help for school for college,
  56. um, there's definitely free money out there.
  57. Um, scholarships are one of the major things I'm always looking out for MCC um,
  58. have scholarships.
  59. They also email um, letting students know about other scholarships out there.
  60. Like the Chelsea
  61. Chelsea is one of the ones that have helped me out in the past.
  62. And um, there are different job opportunities you can do with social work.
  63. It doesn't have to be um
  64. kind of what you think, where they just go and knock on people's doors when there is
  65. a um I guess a complaint put in about a family.
  66. You can be a therapist, a counselor, you can work in a school field,
  67. hospice social worker, human services specialist.
  68. You can either work, you can even work in probation and substance abuse counseling.
  69. There's so many different options and venues you can work at
  70. um with a degree in social work
  71. for skills um definitely have to be empathetic um have organization, skills,
  72. communication, problem solving and def definite patients,
  73. social workers go above and beyond to help people in need.
  74. They stand up for human rights,
  75. social injustices and strengthen individual communities,
  76. thus giving a voice to the unheard
  77. for education. Schooling requirements are definitely um
  78. you can get a social work and associates in social work
  79. but most places are looking for a minimum bachelor's or master's.
  80. Um It has to be from an accredited program like CCS. You Goodwin E. C. S. U.
  81. Um Our Sacred Heart,
  82. you also need supervised fieldwork or an internship and have to be licensed.
  83. Mhm.
  84. If you need more info, if this is definitely a field that interests you,
  85. you can reach out to Joanna White um at MCC who is
  86. the assistant professor and program coordinator for human and social services.
  87. I've taken some classes with her in the past.
  88. She's really great,
  89. she has all the information you can need and can answer any questions you have.
  90. Um And you can also get in touch with Big Brothers,
  91. Big Sisters american Red Cross or coordinate
  92. appointed Specialist advocate for Children.
  93. Um All these places are great to go to get more
  94. information on how you can forward your career in social work.
  95. And that's my presentation.