What experience or knowledge is required to do your job?

Hello my name is Elena Sanchez, I go to Winter Park High School and I am currently dual enrolling at Valencia College. I want to be a psychiatrist when I grow up and so I am doing a Career Exploration Paper for my Student Success Class at Vc. I was wondering if you could please answer these questions if it isn't too much to ask for. Thank you so much for your time.
Name:
Job Title:
Place of Employment:
1. What experience or knowledge is required to do your job?
2. How do Valencia's Competencies (think, value, communicate, act) apply to this career?
3. What types of projects, assignments or deadlines must you meet each day (What is a typical day on the job)?
4. Does your job require overtime and what is your work schedule? What is a typical entry salary range for this field?
5. What preparation or courses did you find necessary or helpful upon entering the job? What was your major in college?
6. Can you suggest some ways a student could obtain this necessary experience?
7. What is the biggest challenge you encounter?
8. If you were entering this career today, would you change your preparation in any way to facilitate entry?
9. What advice would you give someone thinking about this career?
10. What are some of the hardships about this career?
11. Do you give advice to patients or just prescribe medicine?
Thank you so much for your time for answering these questions, you can just email me back with the answers.
For any questions please call me at 321 438 1021

Answered by Dr. Michael Ascher | No comments | Asked by Elena on November 6^th, 2011, 3:01 PM | Viewed 423 times