Agents, Real Estate
Job Decription:
Real estate agents sell properties for their clients. They usually specialize in
selling residential or commercial properties. People wanting to sell properties sign
contracts that aloow their real estate agents, as their personal representatives, to
locate buyers to purchaes thier properties.
Job Activities:
They find cliebnts through advertising and personal cpntacts. real estate agents consult with properties so that they can provide prospective buyers with accurate
descriptions of them.
Education Path:
Helpful High School Courses:
Should take: Advertising and Promotion, Business and Personal Fianace,
Business and Personal Law, Economica, and/or Entrepreneurship
School-to-Career Programs:
Professional Sales Cooperative Education
Major & Degree:
Real Estae
Career path:
Real estate agencies require their employees to be licensed real estate sales persons in most states. To obtain this license, individuals must complete specified courses and satisfactorily complete both state and national examinations.
Agencies advertise in newspapers and contact their state employment service. Some contact technical colleges and private business schools for qualified graduates of real estate programs.
As they gain experience and establish their reputations, real estate agents gain more clients and, therefore, earn more in commissions. In large agencies, some
become agency managers. Others establish their own real estate agencies.
Salary:
National salary range: $20,800 to $96,410
Notes that your salary can be affected by:
the size of the business
the individual employee’s experience
the range includes comissions
Managers, Business and Industry(Middle Managers)
Jod Description:
Managers in business and industry are the ink between the first-line supervisors who direct workers and the future of the organization. They meet with company
executives to find ways to save money and increase profits. They then plan strategies to accomplish these goals.
Job Activities:
Managers meet with first-line supervisors to discuss new strategies. They may explain changes to increase productivity, discuss the problems that are made, and
determine the number of workers needed. They also help supervisors organize work so that it can be done more efficiently.
Education Path:
Helpful High School Courses:
Business and Personal Finance, Business and Personal Law, Economics, Foreign Languages (minimum of two years), and Statistics and Probability.
School-To-Career Programs:
Business & Information Technology Cooperative Education
Majors & Degrees Accounting and Related Services:
Accounting
Economics/International Business/Finance and Financial Management
Services:
International Business, Trade, and Finance
Career Pathway:
Many companies hire individuals who have a bachelor’s degree in an area
directly related to the business and provide on-the-job training. Some employers prefer to hire individuals who have a master’s degree in business administration.
Some employers want managers who know their company’s policies and
procedures. They promote workers from within the company and do not always require that these people have a bachelor’s degree. These managers complete in house
training programs.
Salary:
National salary range: $45,780 to more than $166,400
Notes,Your salary range can be affect by :
The location of the industry or business
Your education, experiences, and job responsibilities.
Wedding Planner
Job Description:
Wedding planners assist in the organization and presentation of their clients’ weddings. Wedding planners offer services ranging from providing proper etiquette for wedding announcement to handling all the details of the wedding including the
invitations, parties, wedding party gifts, and the wedding location, ceremony, reception, flowers, bridal fashions, and photography.
Job Activities:
At their initial meeting, wedding planners listen as the couple as they articulate their wedding expectations. Wedding planners explain the services they can provide and the fees for different levels of service. Wedding planners write detailed contracts so that the couple knows exactly what services will be provided and the fees for
these services. Couples finance their weddings in a variety of ways. Whether couples finance their own weddings or have financial assistance from their families, the total
expenditures for the wedding must be determined. Once this is established each
element of the wedding such as cake, flowers, bridal party gifts, wedding fashions, the reception, food, and entertainment can be assigned a percentage of the total. This
budget is the framework for identifying the vendors the wedding planner will contact.
Education Path:
Helpful High School Course:
Communication Technologies, Computer Applications, Computer
Applications, Advanced, Desktop Publishing, and Graphic Arts and Printing.
School-to-Career Program:
Marketing Cooperative Education
Majors & Degrees:
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operation
Career Pathway:
There are no formal educational/training requirements for entry into this occupation. Some individuals purchase how-to books or join associations that offer wedding planners professional development programs and certifications. Some become wedding planners after graduating from postsecondary entrepreneurial business programs.
Wedding planners advance by planning more weddings and/or larger weddings. As they receive more excellent recommendations from past clients and industry-related vendors they are able to increase their fees and hire assistants who oversee parts of the wedding such as the wedding party or reception under the direct supervision of the wedding planner.
Salary:
National salary range: $27,550 to $75,160