Agency PowerPoint Template

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What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up?
October 6, 2008 South Aiken High School Lorraine
Faulds Training Development Director SC
Employment Security Commission
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What do you care about when it comes to a job?
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• Money
• Time off
• Do cute guys/girls work there?
• How long is the lunch break?

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• What you should be looking at is
• Job openings
• What industries have jobs?
• What occupations?

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Where Are The Jobs?
Aiken County Employment by Industry in
2007 (percentage of total)
Waste Mgmt and Remediation
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The Jobs
The 20 jobs with the most openings in the Lower
Savannah WIA Area (2004-2014)
4 of these are in health-care!
The Lower Savannah WIA area includes Aiken,
Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun and
Orangeburg counties.
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HANDOUT Top 50 Jobs With the Most Openings
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Declining Occupations
7 in Mfg. and 10 in admin/clerical
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Reality check!
www.jumpstart.org/realitycheck/
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Reality check!

• You choose options for
• Shelter
• Transportation
• Food
• Utilities (Cell phone!)
• Expenses (Shopping!)
• Entertainment (CDs!)
• Personal (hygiene, laundry)

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An example from Reality Check

• Shelter Share apartment with roommate
• Transportation Used car (includes insurance,
  maintenance, car payment)
• Food Eat out
• Utilities Electric, gas water, cell phone
• Expenses Minimum clothing, company health
  insurance, Internet access
• Entertainment Basic cable, 4 movie rentals, 2
  CDs, and 2 game rentals each month
• Personal Basic haircut, makeup, do laundry at
  parents house, car wash, personal hygiene items

Take home pay would need to be 10/hour!!
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Take-Home Pay

• Your take-home pay (the total on your paycheck)
  is your base pay (for example 10/hour)
• MINUS
• Taxes (IRS)
• State
• Federal
• Social Security
• Medicare/Health Insurance
• So a hourly rate of 10/hour
• really means more like 6-7/hour!

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Hourly, weekly, monthly annual wages
Cheat Sheet! 10/hour 400/week
1,733/month 20,800/year
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The more you learn, the more you earn!!
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Difference between no high school diploma and an
Associates Degree
Less than HS grad 17,929 Bachelors Degree
41,764 Difference 23,835 Thats a 133
increase!!! If you work for 30 years, you will
make 715,000 MORE!!!
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After high school
From http//ed.sc.gov/agency/Accountability/Data-
Management-andAnalysis/old/research/CollegeFreshma
nReport.html
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Where do you go after getting your GED or
graduating from high school?

• Lots of options
• Work and/or Military
• Career training
• Associates Degree
• Bachelors Degree

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Work or the Military

• Pros
• right now!

• Cons
• Less than if you get more training

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Some jobs that require short-term on-the-job
training (OJT)
Job Wage Career Cluster Receptionists 11.01
Business, Mgmt, Admin Nursing Aides,
Orderlies and Attendants 8.88 Health
Sciences General Office Clerks 10.85 Business,
Mgmt, Admin Retail Salespersons 10.39
Marketing/Sales/Service
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Jobs that require Moderate or Long-term OJT
Job Wage Career Cluster Pharmacy
Technicians 11.16 Health Sciences Truck
Drivers, Heavy Duty 15.86 Transportation,
Distribution Logistics General
Maint. Repair Workers 18.14
Manufacturing Dental Assistants 12.03
Health Sciences Executive Secretaries
Admin. Assistants 22.09 Business, Mgmt, Admin
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All Good Jobs Dont Require A College Degree
There are some well-paying jobs that are expected
to have plenty of openings and do NOT require a
4-year college degree.
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Career Training

• Training that is specific to a job
• Truck-driver training
• Cosmetology schools
• Real Estate training
• Certificate or Diploma programs at technical
  colleges

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Examples of Career Training
Training usually gets you a diploma (1-2
semesters), certificate (2-3 semesters), or
associates degree (4 semesters).

• Aiken Technical College
• Health Sciences
• Associates Nursing, Radiology Technician
• Diploma Surgery Technician, Dental Assistant
• Certificate Medical Assistant, Medical Coding
• Industrial Technology
• Associates Automotive Technology, Maintenance
• Certificate Welding, Computer Graphics,
  Automotive Specialties
• Computer Technology
• Associates Networking, Programming, Web
  Development
• Certificate Multimedia, Web Page Design, Game
  Design
• Business Technology
• Associates Accounting, Marketing
• Certificate Small Business Management,
  Marketing, Accounting

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OJT jobs where a certificate or extra training
will help
Pharmacy Technicians (11.16) Dental Assistants
(12.30) Truck Drivers, Heavy Duty (15.86)
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Associates Degree or Career Training/Certificate
Options
Job Wage Career Cluster Registered
Nurses 24.97 Health Sciences Automotive
Service Technicians and Mechanics 12.74
Transportation/ Distribution/Logistics
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BUT REMEMBER The more you learn, the more you
earn!!
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Bachelors Degree Options
Job Wage Career Cluster Accountant 25.53
Business, Mgmt Admin General Operations
Managers 42.92 Business, Mgmt
Admin Elementary School Teachers 19.71
Education Computer Software 39.28
Information Technology Engineer
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The Best Career Areas
Considering job opportunity and potential wages,
plus education level required, we suggest these
areas for South Carolina Health Business
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Jobs in Health Business
Registered Nurses (24.97) Nursing Aides,
Orderlies Attendants (8.88) Pharmacy
Technicians (11.16) Dental Assistants
(12.30) General Office Clerks
(10.85) Executive Secretaries
Administrative Assistants (22.09) Accountants
(25.53) Receptionists Information Clerks
(11.01)
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A word about healthcare jobs
Cant stand the sight of blood These are some
jobs in the healthcare field that are not direct
patient care.
Medical Records Technicians (15.13) Medical
Transcriptionists (14.72) Medical Secretaries
(13.62) Medical Lab Technicians (14.97) Medical
Equipment Preparers (11.75)
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Contact LMI
South Carolina Employment Security
Commission Labor Market Information
Department [phone] or 1-800-205-9290 www.sc
es.org/lmi Lorraine Faulds lfaulds_at_sces.org