The function of a job refers to your overall responsibility and what you are doing day to day. Examples of job functions follow:
- Management
- Sales
- Marketing and public relations
- Finance and accounting
- Human resources
- Operations
- Technology
In both of the industry examples for arts and energy, you could be doing many different things within any of the subcategories. If your industry choice leads you to an art museum as a possibility, you might do several things:
- Manage a program or exhibit (management).
- Handle membership or ticket sales (sales).
- Raise money (at a nonprofit, this is referred to as development).
- Create brochures and advertising (marketing).
- Analyze and report on the finances of the museum (finance and accounting).
- Act as the point person for employees on questions about pay, benefits, advancement, and other careerrelated issues (human resources).
- Organize the open and close, facilities, and maintenance or other daily operations (operations).
- Run the customer database (technology).
In a later section of this chapter, we will give ideas for how to explore different functional areas to see what might be right for you. In Chapter 6 on research, we will talk about how to research functions for information that will help you position yourself appropriately for these jobs. Function and industry build on each other. Knowing one but the not the other is incomplete.
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