PAPERRRR

[``Khristle Evans]

1. Use www.bls.gov/oco to find a career that you are interested in pursuing in your future. You are to read about this occupation and write a two-page paper about it. Things to include about your career are a description of what you would do at that job, training or education that you must have, the job outlook for the future, how much money you would make, and any other relevant information.
Guidelines for Keying
o 1 inch margins
o 12 pt. Times New Roman (black) font
o Include a header with your name and career
o Double space
o Plagiarism will result in a 0. Take this time to learn something about a career that interests you. Most students are unsure about what job they want or what they want to study when they leave high school.
2. When finished, create a PowerPoint presentation outlining the details of your career. Use pictures and color to enhance your presentation. This can be used as our introduction to PPT.
3. Turn everything in when finished.

[``Khristle Evans]

Graphic Designer

(Developing a new design in the first step to determine the needs of their client, and the message that the design will portray and how it will appeal to customers or its users. They consider cognitive cultural, physical and social factors in the planning and executing designs that are for the targeted audience. The designers will gather information by meeting their clients, or creative art directors. They perform their own research and identifying the needs of the consumers. They will continue developing corporate communicational strategies along with creating layouts and designs for their clients.)
Developing a new design in the first step to determine the needs of their client, and the message that the design will portray and how it will appeal to customers or its users. They consider cognitive cultural, physical and social factors in the planning and executing designs that are for the targeted audience. The designers will gather information by meeting their clients, or creative art directors. They perform their own research and identifying the needs of the consumers. They will continue developing corporate communicational strategies along with creating layouts and designs for their clients. As graphic designers they are to prepare layouts by hand to show their vision of the design. For the layouts they will look at colors, sounds, artwork, photography, animation and visual elements for that design. They will also select the arrangement and the size for the different elements that will be used for that design. They are allowed to create charts and graphs only for the use in the publications as long as they consul with the writer of the text that goes along with the design they wish to use. Then they much present the completed design to the clients for approval. Designers may assist in the printing of their design by selecting the paper and or ink that will be used to make their publication final.
A graphic designer only needs a bachelor’s degree for most of te entry-level and the advanced positions, though for some of the positions you will be required to have an associates degree. For the Bachelor’s degree programs are in fine arts or the graphic design. They are offered at most any college/universities and even at private schools. The curriculums would include studio art, principles of design, computerized design, commercial graphics, printing techniques, and a web site design. There are also additional design courses such as liberal arts education that would include some courses in art history, sociology, foreign languages, psychology, cultural studies, and marketing. Also business courses are helpful to use in a designers work.
The annual median earnings for salary graphic designers were around 39,900 as of May 2006. As for the middle fifty percent they earned somewhere between 30,600 and 53,310. The lowest that was earned was 24,120 and the highest was 69,730.

Specialized design services $43,410
Advertising and related services $41,600
Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers $34,290
Printing and related support activities $33,930
Newspaper publishers
$31,540

The American Institute of Graphic Arts, the annual total cash compensation for an entry-level designer was around $35,000 as of 2007. The staff-level earned at the most $45,000 and the Senior designers earned a median of around $62,000.

Projections Data

Projections data from the National Employment Matrix
Occupational
Title SOC
Code Employment
2006 Projected
Employment
2016 Change 2006-16 Detailed
statistics
Number Percent
Graphic Designers 27-1024 261,000 286,000 26,000 10 PDF zippedXLS