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Notes Concerning the Labor Market Analysis Report
The purpose of the labor market analysis report is to expose you to a source of information that describes the training, potential pay, and job growth projections over the next decade, among other things. Many students have not previously considered this information when deciding upon a major. My interest is that you have a better understanding of the labor market into which you will entering following your graduation from SDSU. Also important is that you are aware of your strengths and weaknesses and can discuss both confidently in writing and orally when asked by a potential employer. To that end, the latter part of the assignment, the conclusion, specifically, asks you to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses. This is something that many people find difficult to do, so using this assignment as a first step in the process of discovering what you have to offer a potential employer, I have chosen to embed this task in the labor market analysis report assignment.
Citing Information from the Bureau of Labor Market Database
A concern that many of you have, and a good concern at that, is that you do not want to plagiarize the Bureau of Labor Market database information you are citing. Here is an idea that may help you avoid this problem: as you read each of the sections in the database that pertain to the questions you are answering (e.g., “Nature of the Workâ€), cover up the text you have just read and imagine that you are explaining that same information to someone who knows nothing of your career field. Write that information in your own words, and you will be able to avoid plagiarizing the information in the database. For good measure, use various statements to refer to the source of your information (e.g., “According to the Bureau of Labor statistics. . .â€; use the initials BLS in parentheses after text that you paraphrase). For any text that you must quote, use quotation marks before and after that information along with the “(BLS)†notation indicated above.
Labeling and Discussing Graphs, Charts, and Tables
As explained in the assignment prompt, you need to include at least two graphs, charts, and/or tables to represent quantitative information in your report. Each graph, chart, and table must be labeled with a title using this format: “Figure 1: title.†Use the word “figure†with graphs and charts and “table†with tables of numeric information. Below the graph, chart, or table, list the source for the information you have used. In the text before or after your graph, chart, or table, describe the contents of that element. In other words, what is the reader looking at? After you describe the contents of each graph, chart, or table, you need to interpret that information. For example, why is the salary for one profession higher than another?
You may be wondering why I am asking you to write a report rather than an essay. One of the most common forms of organizational communiqué is the short report. Reports are a genre unto themselves. They tend to be concise and highly structured, with specific constraints concerning the format. I have mentioned the constraints for the report you will be writing in the prompt. Note the requirements for line spacing, text alignment, and use of graphs, charts and tables, among other features.
Discussing Your Strengths and Weaknesses
The prompt asks you to describe and discuss your strengths and weaknesses as part of your conclusion. For many people, this can be difficult to do, yet you are very likely to be asked to discuss your strengths and weaknesses during an interview. Successful candidates should know the answers to these questions going into an interview. To help you adequately answer these questions, below I list a number of questions that will help you provide insightful answers:
Why did you choose your career field?
What is its appeal to you? Why did you not major in something else?
What skills do you possess that have equipped you for your career field?
What have people said you are good at?
In what subjects have you succeeded?
What courses have you liked the most?
What are your deficits? In what areas do you need to develop?
What do you need to do to strengthen the areas that are currently weaknesses?
What have you done or will do to increase your knowledge and skills in your career field? What is your growth plan?
You do not need to answer these questions in the order they are listed here. You may even choose to combine answers. The point is, by answering these questions you will address the broad questions in the prompt that ask you to discuss your strengths and weaknesses.
I would suggest that you also look at the example papers I have placed on Blackboard.
Purpose of the Assignment: To allow you to examine the rhetorical situations involved in communicating technical information to a lay audience. To do this, you will complete a labor market analysis of your chosen career field.
Step 1: Go to the Web site for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/a-z-index.htm).
Step 2: Answer the following questions about your career field in paragraph form:
- What is the nature of the work?
- What training, other qualifications, and/or advancement are needed for you to enter and progress in your career field?
- What is the current overall employment outlook for your career field?
- What is the outlook for the job you want to seek in your career field?
- What are the earnings and wage projections for your job or career field?
- What are some related occupations you can consider as an alternative (choose three), and what are the training requirements/qualifications for those positions?
Step 3: Use the formatting guidelines for a short report, including the title page, headings, line spacing, and the integration of charts and graphs into your report. The paper will be approximately eight to ten pages long, single-spaced.
Report Components: These components must be included in your report:
- Title page
- Answers to the six questions above, each designated with a heading and discussed in paragraph form.
- Two charts, tables, or graphs that display pertinent quantitative information.
- Conclusion that summarizes your discussion and answers these questions:
Why do you want to pursue the career you have chosen? Why do you think this career is a good fit for you? What are your strengths and weaknesses and how do they enhance and/or hinder your chances of gaining employment in your desired career field?
Key RWS 290 Outcomes Met with This Assignment
Students will:
- Identify individual discourse communities and find and analyze their characteristic texts, evaluate their credibility and principles, and apply relevant aspects of their information to other contexts and arguments
- Analyze the details of a wide variety of writing situations (textual elements such as tone, evidence, organizational patterns, diction, even visuals) according to the author’s purpose as well as the audience’s needs and tastes
- Identify how a writer uses rhetorical strategies in various genres of writing
- Interpret, analyze, and evaluate demanding texts
- Apply critical thinking skills and reading strategies to evaluate their own writing and the writing of fellow students
- Reflect on their own progress as a working writer in relation to critical thinking and reading strategies
- Develop flexible strategies for creating, revising, and editing texts
- Write with an awareness of audience and purpose
- Identify how discourse communities employ particular strategies for conveying, researching, evaluating, and presenting information
- Analyze and choose the appropriate conventions for a range of audience expectations
- Integrate a variety of appropriate sources into their writing in a way that accurately reflects the writer’s meaning and purpose
- Document sources appropriately
- Sustain reasonable correctness in grammar and mechanics to perform well in a variety of writing contexts and professional settings
what is expected ——
–The writer’s decisions about focus, organization, style/tone, and content made reading a pleasurable experience. Writing could be used as a model of how to fulfill the assignment. The purpose and focus of the writing are clear to the reader and the organization and content achieve the purpose well. Writing follows all requirements for the assignment.
–Writing flows smoothly from one idea to another. The writer has taken pains to assist the reader in following the logic of the ideas expressed. Sequencing of ideas within paragraphs and transitions between paragraphs make the writer’s points easy to follow.
–Content fully developed with explanations and elaboration.
-Information is presented in a logical, interesting way, which is easy to follow.
–All information is located in the appropriate section.
–Report format is consistent throughout including heading styles, fonts, margins, white space, etc.
–Specified format is observed in all figures, graphs, and/or tables. Captions effectively communicate content.
–All figures, graphs, and tables are effectively interpreted and discussed in the report.
