My Career Choices

Gabriela MunozEcon

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Career Choices

Private Detectives and Investigator Correctional Officer High School Teacher

Private Detectives and Investigators

What is it?› Find facts and analyze information about legal,

financial and personal matters.› Offer many services, including verifying people’s

backgrounds, tracing missing persons. Investigating computer crimes and protecting celebrities.

How to become a Private Investigator and Detectives?› Have some college education › Can be beneficial & in some states you need a

license.› Do not need a degree.

Private Detectives and Investigators

Median Pay› 45, 740 per year› 21.99 per hour

Training› Moderate-term on-the-job training

Number of jobs in 2010 is 34,700 and job outlook is 21%.

Unions for Private Detectives and Investigator

Provide a quality service, in a timely manner and to equip the client with the information needed.

Goods and Services

Private Detective› Find facts, analyze information, they can

verify peoples backgrounds, finding missing persons and investigate computer crimes.

Correctional Officer› Watch over the prisoners.

High School Teacher› Educate high school students to prepare

for college and life.

Correctional Officers

Correctional officers are responsible for overseeing individuals arrested awaiting for trial or who have been sentenced to serve time in jail.

Correctional Officers

Median Pay› 38,970 per year› 18.74 per hour

Level Education› High school diploma or higher

Unions for Correctional Officers

National Correctional Employees Office› Local units attend to the needs of their

members. › Local units and the National are committed to

serve the interest of the membership are at the core of their relationship.

Legal Team› Law firm offers expertise in the field of Labor

and Employment representing our members in Contract Negotiations, Labor Management Meetings, Impact Bargaining, unfair Labor Practices and all disciplinary matters

Unions for Correctional Officers

Member Benefits› Death Benefit- each member of the NCEU is eligible for a

35,000 accidental death benefit on or off duty. Voluntary Benefits

› such as life insurance, cancer and critical illness insurance, short term disability.

Life Insurance› Term life, whole life, universal life

Critical Illness› Provides lump sum cash benefit when you or a covered

family member is diagnosed with coronary bypass, surgery, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, blindness, paralysis, occupational HIV, major organ transplant.

Unions for Correctional Officers

Income Protection Plan› $400-$3000 month guarantee issue/12

month preexisting condition still applies. Hospital Confinement

› MRI, ER visits, High Deductibles, Outpatient services

Accident Insurance› Covers you both on and off the job, pays

cash for your injuries, x-rays, factures, etc. Home and Auto Insurance

Teacher

Median Pay› $55,050 per year

Entry-level education › Bachelors degree

On-the-job training; internship/residency

Job outlook › 6% (slower than average)› Employment change 2012-22: 52,900›

What do they do?› High school teachers prepare students for

life after graduation.› Teach academic lesson & various skills

How to become one?› Must have a bachelor degree› State issued certification or license › Academic background in the subject they

will teach.

Unions for Teachers

Preventing firing of a female teacher because she was married.

Sponsoring and campaigning for proposition 98

Raised the stature and salaries of teachers and expanded the opportunity for California's 9 million students to receive a quality education

They’re still going strong.

Works Cited

http://www.nceu.org/?zone=/unionactive/view_page.cfm&page=Member20Benefits

http://www.cta.org/About-CTA.aspx http://www.ipiu.org/