It is important to learn about different cultures and educate others to facilitate understanding. Join the culture club on campus or at a local museum/organization! 

Career

Learn about different cultures. 

Choose a cause you care about and then explore what different organizations in your community are doing to help. See if you can volunteer or organize donations from friends and family.

Make a difference in your community. 

Get a jump start on what you want do in college or test your interest before you get there by taking a class in political science! 

Education

Take a class in political science. 

Government Executives and Legislators

Develop, introduce or enact laws and statutes at the local, tribal, State, or Federal level. Includes only workers in elected positions.

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

First Interest High-Point

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Second Interest High-Point

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Third Interest High-Point

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed

Legislators

Analyze and understand the local and national implications of proposed legislation.

Appoint nominees to leadership posts, or approve such appointments.

Confer with colleagues to formulate positions and strategies pertaining to pending issues.

Debate the merits of proposals and bill amendments during floor sessions, following the appropriate rules of procedure.

Develop expertise in subject matters related to committee assignments.

Hear testimony from constituents, representatives of interest groups, board and commission members, and others with an interest in bills or issues under consideration.

Keep abreast of the issues affecting constituents by making personal visits and phone calls, reading local newspapers, and viewing or listening to local broadcasts.

Maintain knowledge of relevant national and international current events.

Make decisions that balance the perspectives of private citizens, public officials, and party leaders.

Negotiate with colleagues or members of other political parties in order to reconcile differing interests, and to create policies and agreements.

Prepare drafts of amendments, government policies, laws, rules, regulations, budgets, programs and procedures.

Read and review concerns of constituents or the general public and determine if governmental action is necessary.

Represent their parties in negotiations with political executives or members of other parties, and when speaking with the media.

Review bills in committee, and make recommendations about their future.

Seek federal funding for local projects and programs.

Serve on commissions, investigative panels, study groups, and committees in order to examine specialized areas and recommend action.

Vote on motions, amendments, and decisions on whether or not to report a bill out from committee to the assembly floor.

Write, prepare, and deliver statements for the Congressional Record.

Alert constituents of government actions and programs by way of newsletters, personal appearances at town meetings, phone calls, and individual meetings.

Attend receptions, dinners, and conferences to meet people, exchange views and information, and develop working relationships.

Conduct "head counts" to help predict the outcome of upcoming votes.

Determine campaign strategies for media advertising, positions on issues, and public appearances.

Encourage and support party candidates for political office.

Establish personal offices in local districts or states, and manage office staff.

Evaluate the structure, efficiency, activities, and performance of government agencies.

Organize and maintain campaign organizations and fundraisers, in order to raise money for election or re-election.

Oversee expense allowances, ensuring that accounts are balanced at the end of each fiscal year.

Promote the industries and products of their electoral districts.

Represent their government at local, national, and international meetings and conferences.

Speak to students to encourage and support the development of future political leaders.

Computer laser printers

Laptop computers

Tablet computers

Wireless desktop printers

Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Systems Adobe FrameMaker

Antenna House

Apple iWork Keynote

Apple Numbers for Mac

Apple Pages for Mac

Cisco AnyConnect

Cisco Systems WebEx

Citrix GoToMeeting

Corel WordPerfect Office Suite

GoodReader

iAnnotate

IBM Domino

Legislative Automative Workflow System LAWS

Mapping software

Meeting scheduling software

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft Visual Basic

Microsoft Word

Penultimate

PTC Arbortext Editor

Rocket/Folio NXT

Structured query language SQL

Web browser software

Windows Media Player

XMetaL Author

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Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Government

Politics

Helping People

Hurdles

Challenges I Overcame

Drugs / Addiction

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My work combines:

My work combines:

Government

Politics

Helping People

Hurdles

Challenges I Overcame

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