Career Pathway Project Katavious Payne 8/25/10 Hubbard/7th 1. Name of your career. DEA or Drug Enforcement Administration 2. Name the college degree(s) you must have (or could be helpful to have) to achieve this career goal. Must have a college degree with a 2.95 grade point average, must have associates’ degree 3. How many years of college does it take to earn the degree(s)? 4 or more 4. Name 3 colleges you could attend locally to achieve or begin to achieve this career goal? (include the college’s web addresses) Strayer University,http://affiliate.collegesurfing.com/form/strayer2/roswell.html?zip=30115&campus_key=42&state=GA&city=Canton ,ITT Technical Institution, 12369532|0|1042|Featured||mv30tfml1d10g2d2s165t1hs60|1282849028|2064148132, Argosy, http://affiliate.collegesurfing.com/form/argosy/home-study.html?zip=30115&campus_key=AUO--BA%20Psych&state=GA&city=Canton 5. What training must you obtain to be able to begin this career (police academy, etc)? Complete police academy training 6. How many hours/weeks of this training are required as a minimum?These programs last from a few months to a year. 7. Name three local academies you could go to and how many hours/weeks each requires for graduation. Include the possible cost of attending and entry requirements. If your career is federal (FBI, US Marshal), find the federal academy you must attend and give its requirements for entry and graduation. The Academies are in Athens, Atlanta, and Augusta Georgia. 8. Name 5 activities of interest to you that someone in this career does on a regular basis. Bust Drug Lords, Catch People trying to smuggle drugs, catch people smuggling drugs over the border, catch people on airplanes with drugs, stop people in their cars with large amounts of drugs. 9. Name 5 things about this career you don’t think you would like. Busting in people’s houses, stealing the drugs for yourself, smoking weed with the criminal, the long travel, the hours 10. Name 5 critical skills you need to be successful in this career.
Understand spoken information by listening and asking questions, Identify problems and review information. Analyze options and apply solutions.
Combine several pieces of information and draw conclusions.
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide quickly and correctly.
Use math skills and scientific methods to solve problems.
11. Which skill do you believe is the MOST important? Why? Working with people because it’s hard to deal with everyone. 12. What type of training/degrees must you obtain to “move up the ladder” in this career (promotions etc.)? Police officers usually are eligible for promotion after a probation period 13. Name 3 traits you have that would make this career a good fit for you. Good Wits, Sharp Eyes, and Can handle fatigue well. 14. What is the average annual pay for a career like this? Translate that to hourly pay. Georgia: Hourly: $18.75 Annually: $39,010 15. How can you move up the pay scale in this career? An agent’s salary increases quite quickly with experience. After a few years, it will increase 16. What type of hours will you have to work? Would there be any travel involved? Usually 40 hours a week, sometimes travel great deals 17. Is this career one that is growing in the U.S.? For Georgia the employment from 2006 to 2016 is said to increase 18.9% 18. Name 3 careers that go hand-in-hand with the one you have selected. Police Officer, National Guard, Private Investigator
Katavious Payne
8/25/10
Hubbard/7th
1. Name of your career. DEA or Drug Enforcement Administration
2. Name the college degree(s) you must have (or could be helpful to have) to achieve this career goal. Must have a college degree with a 2.95 grade point average, must have associates’ degree
3. How many years of college does it take to earn the degree(s)? 4 or more
4. Name 3 colleges you could attend locally to achieve or begin to achieve this career goal? (include the college’s web addresses)
Strayer University, http://affiliate.collegesurfing.com/form/strayer2/roswell.html?zip=30115&campus_key=42&state=GA&city=Canton
,ITT Technical Institution, 12369532|0|1042|Featured||mv30tfml1d10g2d2s165t1hs60|1282849028|2064148132,
Argosy, http://affiliate.collegesurfing.com/form/argosy/home-study.html?zip=30115&campus_key=AUO--BA%20Psych&state=GA&city=Canton
5. What training must you obtain to be able to begin this career (police academy, etc)? Complete police academy training
6. How many hours/weeks of this training are required as a minimum? These programs last from a few months to a year.
7. Name three local academies you could go to and how many hours/weeks each requires for graduation.
Include the possible cost of attending and entry requirements.
If your career is federal (FBI, US Marshal), find the federal academy you must attend and give its requirements for entry and graduation. The Academies are in Athens, Atlanta, and Augusta Georgia.
8. Name 5 activities of interest to you that someone in this career does on a regular basis. Bust Drug Lords, Catch People trying to smuggle drugs, catch people smuggling drugs over the border, catch people on airplanes with drugs, stop people in their cars with large amounts of drugs.
9. Name 5 things about this career you don’t think you would like. Busting in people’s houses, stealing the drugs for yourself, smoking weed with the criminal, the long travel, the hours
10. Name 5 critical skills you need to be successful in this career.
11. Which skill do you believe is the MOST important? Why?
Working with people because it’s hard to deal with everyone.
12. What type of training/degrees must you obtain to “move up the ladder” in this career (promotions etc.)? Police officers usually are eligible for promotion after a probation period
13. Name 3 traits you have that would make this career a good fit for you. Good Wits, Sharp Eyes, and Can handle fatigue well.
14. What is the average annual pay for a career like this? Translate that to hourly pay.
Georgia: Hourly: $18.75 Annually: $39,010
15. How can you move up the pay scale in this career? An agent’s salary increases quite quickly with experience. After a few years, it will increase
16. What type of hours will you have to work? Would there be any travel involved? Usually 40 hours a week, sometimes travel great deals
17. Is this career one that is growing in the U.S.? For Georgia the employment from 2006 to 2016 is said to increase 18.9%
18. Name 3 careers that go hand-in-hand with the one you have selected. Police Officer, National Guard, Private Investigator