For this assignment, you will be exploring the types of entry-level jobs that one can get with a degree in forensic science, and determining whether the degrees earned from the colleges your looked at for your Forensic Science Education Assignment (FSEA) meet the requirements of employers hiring now.
This assignment has three parts:
1. Choose three (3) entry-level â€œcrime labâ€ job postings and document the required information about them on the worksheet provided.
2. Choose three (3) entry-level â€œcrime scene investigationâ€ job postings and document the required information about them on the worksheet provided.
3. Compare the job postings to each other and to the info from your FSEA. You will be given a series of questions about the information you have gathered that will help you compare the job opportunities and the requirements for someone wishing to go into that field, as well as whether the academic plans you explored in the FSEA seem to prepare someone for a job in forensics.
Questions:
1. How do the requirements for crime lab jobs differ from crime scene jobs? (Do not just re-list the information from parts I and II.) Explain. thorough
2. How do the job duties and job descriptions for crime lab jobs differ from crime scene jobs? (Do not just re-list the information from parts I and II.) Explain.
3. What struck you about the similarities or differences between crime lab and crime scene jobs? Explain.
4. According to the job descriptions, do both crime lab and crime scene workers have to testify in court?
5. Do written and oral communication skills appear to be more, less, or equally important for crime lab and crime scene jobs? Explain.
6. Using your Forensic Science Education Assignment (FSEA) data that you generated earlier in the semester, do the three forensic science degree programs you looked at meet the requirements for all three crime lab jobs you explored? (You may need to count credits or look at specific classes depending on the requirements of the job postings you chose). Explain using data from your FSEA.
7. Using your Forensic Science Education Assignment (FSEA) data that you generated earlier in the semester, do the three forensic science degree programs you looked at meet the requirements for all three crime scene jobs you explored? (You may need to count credits or look at specific classes depending on the requirements of the job postings you chose). Explain using data from your FSEA.
8. Based on the qualifications required for the job postings you selected, do the FEPAC accredited schools appear to prepare an applicant better for a crime lab or crime scene job than the non-accredited school? (You may need to count credits or look at specific classes depending on the requirements of the job postings you chose). Explain using data from your FSEA.
9. Based on what you have learned, which type of job would you prefer if you had to choose: a crime lab job or a crime scene job? Why?
10. There is long-running argument in the forensic science community about whether or not crime scene investigators should have the same type of science-based education that crime lab workers must have. Based on the job descriptions and duties youâ€™ve looked at, do you think that CSI personnel should have to have a rigorous scientific background? Why?

For this assignment, you will be exploring the types of entry-level...