This document discusses three potential career paths: real estate agent, buyer, and personal financial manager. It provides details on the tasks, knowledge, skills, and outlook for each career. The document also indicates that real estate agent was selected as Alexandra Tammaro's top career choice. Real estate agents are responsible for finding homes for clients, handling negotiations, and marketing properties. The career requires skills in communication, negotiation, and time management. Nationally, wages are approximately $40,100 and the field is expected to grow 5% between 2008-2018.

1. Career Planning Research Project Alexandra Tammaro

2. Top Three Careers: Real Estate Agent Buyer Personal Financial Manager

3. Real Estate Agent

4. Real Estate Agent: Tasks Set prices for homes Handle negotiations between the buyer and seller Find suitable homes for your clients based on their personal taste Coordinate open houses to try to get good prices for the homes of your clients

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9. Outlook: supposed to increase approximately 5% from 2008-2018( faster than average)

11. OOC Continued.. Employment: Many Real Estate Agents are self employed. This is for many reasons. For example, many Real Estate Agents choose work part time as a Real Estate Agent when they are not working a separate job. However, there are Real Estate firms but they are typically very small.

12. Continued.. Nature of Work: This type of job is approximately five days a week. Many people work from home. Real Estate Agents are out the majority of the time, whether it be meeting with clients or viewing houses.

13. Buyer

15. Organize and Keep track of merchandise.

16. Select and order the most favorable products for the company.

17. Understand your target market in order to purchase the most desirable products.

22. Outlook: There is supposed to be little or no growth in this field between 2008 -2018. While in 2008 there was approximately 140,000 Buyers there is expected to be about 27,000 openings by 2018.

24. Continued.. Job Outlook: This job will grow approximately 7% into 2018 but the number of career opportunities will differ with the type of buyer. Other Qualifications: A Buyer should have knowledge of computers and know how to work different types of computer programs.

25. Personal Financial Manager

26. Personal Financial Manager: Tasks Sell Financial Products such as stocks and bonds Analyze Financial Information to figure out how to meet the clients objectives Create financial plans that coincide with what people are looking for Research and Investigate investment opportunities

28. Economics and Accounting: Must have knowledge of analyzing and and interpreting financial data

30. Critical Thinking: Must be able to analyze information and create multiple solutions for a problem

33. Outlook: There are currently 208,000 employed in the United States and there is expected to be 83,300 job openings between 2008-2018. This growth is must faster than average

35. OOC Continued.. Employment: Many are self employed, however there are companies that will hire these people to work in their company and dispatch them to people who need their services

36. Continued.. Nature of Work: many financial managers meet with companies and let them know what they can do to improve the finances within their company. Also, they predict what will happen financially in a company for the future.

37. My Top Career Real Estate Agent