Career Acrostic
Step 1: Brainstorm a list of 20 words or phrases that describe your chosen career. Use Careercruising.com to include activities, skills and terms that describe the job. What qualities do you admire? Include things that make your career unique and special.
Help others, Relearn skills, Build independence, Hands on, flexibility, movement, rehabilitate, educate people, Problem solving, support, encourage, Practice, achieve, Variety / modify, Strengthen the community, Improve health, emotional connections,
Step 2: Circle the 6-8 qualities on your list that are unique. What are your favorites? Identify the main qualities that truly define the career. Choose the most descriptive, most important, most memorable.
Step 3: Using the 6-8 qualities you defined in step 2, write 4-6 sentences in the space below. Be as descriptive as possible.
Providing support & encouragement, an occupational therapist helps strengthen people in the community in order to achieve and maintain their independence. It’s a rewarding career requiring compassion, flexibility, knowledge, patience, and creativity.
Step 4: Now, look through what you wrote for step 3 for words that start with the letters in the career’s name. Arrange the sentences to wrap around those letters and create an Acrostic Poem. You may need to change the wording to make the sentences fit.
Finished poem:
To be successful, I need both knowledge and compassion. I
Help
Educate and strengthen
Real people in the community so they can
Achieve and maintain their independence each day.
Patience, flexibility and creativity are my most
Important skills. Someday medical
science will be able to fix anything. Until then we will work
Together
Help others, Relearn skills, Build independence, Hands on, flexibility, movement, rehabilitate, educate people, Problem solving, support, encourage, Practice, achieve, Variety / modify, Strengthen the community, Improve health, emotional connections,
Step 2: Circle the 6-8 qualities on your list that are unique. What are your favorites? Identify the main qualities that truly define the career. Choose the most descriptive, most important, most memorable.
Step 3: Using the 6-8 qualities you defined in step 2, write 4-6 sentences in the space below. Be as descriptive as possible.
Providing support & encouragement, an occupational therapist helps strengthen people in the community in order to achieve and maintain their independence. It’s a rewarding career requiring compassion, flexibility, knowledge, patience, and creativity.
Step 4: Now, look through what you wrote for step 3 for words that start with the letters in the career’s name. Arrange the sentences to wrap around those letters and create an Acrostic Poem. You may need to change the wording to make the sentences fit.
Finished poem:
To be successful, I need both knowledge and compassion. I
Help
Educate and strengthen
Real people in the community so they can
Achieve and maintain their independence each day.
Patience, flexibility and creativity are my most
Important skills. Someday medical
science will be able to fix anything. Until then we will work
Together