Management Research paper: research your potential career and produce a three page memo that gives a reader informational background about your chosen profession or field.

Management Research paper: research your potential career and produce a three page memo that gives a reader informational background about your chosen profession or field.

For this assignment, you will research your potential career and produce a three page memo that gives a reader informational background about your chosen profession or field. You should research specifically the following information:

Any library or internet resources that are specifically helpful to people entering this profession.
Professional associations and conferences.
Trade and peer-reviewed journals.
Social media resources.
As you research, it will be helpful to read widely so you can draw from a number of different sources. Remember, if you quote or paraphrase a source, you must give that source credit (use APA documentation style).

This memo should include the following sections:

• Introduction: Discuss your chosen area or field and why you are interested.

• Job Description: Consult the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Handbook website (http://www.bls.gov/ooh/) about your field. Search the site by using a job title in your field (librarian, professor, real estate agent). You may have to try using different synonyms for your chosen career. For the memo, summarize, in your own words, the following:

The kinds of positions that are available, at entry-level and above, and what kind of training and experience each requires.
The tasks required for these positions.
The salary range, especially for entry-level positions and for a career average (if this differs by geographical location, note that).
The market for this career (are employers scrambling to find people? are there a lot of out-of-work professionals?).
• Professional Associations and Conferences / Meetings: Give web addresses for professional associations for your field. Remember that a professional association is an advocacy group for people in that profession, not a company who hires people in that profession. For example, the American Libraries Association is a professional association for librarians while the Library of Congress hires librarians.

Discuss the mission of your chosen professional association. Other questions to consider include: Who may join it? What are the membership fees? What are the benefits for members? When and where are meetings held? Are there regional associations? Does the association produce any publications? Include any other information that you believe is relevant.

• Professional Trade Journals / Peer-Reviewed Journals: Review journals and trade publications. Find and examine two issues of one peer-reviewed journal and two issues of a trade journal related to your field.

How often are these journals published? Who seems to be the audience for each one? In other words, how specialized is this journal? What types of articles are in each journal? How would these journals be of help to someone in your field? Include any other information which you think would be relevant.

• Social Media: What are the best social media resources for this profession?