WIKI “Personality” : We all have an opinion and expectations in regards to the personality of people in certain professions. We expect physicians to be conscientious, reliable and thorough. Kindergarten teachers need patience and humor and so forth. In this Wiki group, students will identify Personality traits that they connect with the future occupations of group members. In your Wiki main page below, you will find a table with an already completed example for one occupation: Pilot. Follow this example.

There are three work steps (which means, students must work in this Wiki throughout the week. Make sure that you are aware of due dates!) :

1. Each student will add his or her desired occupation to the table. By Monday night, there should be up to five occupations listed if everyone participates.

2. Group members now fill in traits (good and bad) for these occupations – with the exception of their own. So if all 5 group members have added their future occupation, each member now adds traits to the occupations of their 4 fellow group members. Each students should list 4-5 “good” and 4-5 “bad” traits for each of the four occupations. Please use for the traits the personality traits article with a list of more than 500 personal qualities posted in the reading assignment for this week and don’t repeat traits that are already listed by group mates. I suggest that as a group, determine as soon as possible a time by when all group members must have added their list of traits. Set your own due date for this step.

3. Final step: Discuss as group the list of traits for each career and narrow it down to the top 5 of the “good” and the top 5 “bad” for each occupation – but again: for each career, the student who posted the career should NOT PARTICIPATE in this discussion. Due by Thursday midnight.

The goal is for everyone to learn what kind of behavior OTHER people may expect just because one works in a certain career. It appears that career success is influenced by the degree that your actual personality matches the personality expectations of other people. For example most people expect pediatricians to be warm and friendly and a doctor with a rather cold and distant personality may find it difficult to attract patients regardless of the medical qualifications. The next journal essay due at the end of week 6 will ask students to reflect on the results of the Wiki activity for their own career.

Again: Students, who miss the first Wiki due date and do not post an occupation by Monday night are excluded from the Wiki activity.