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Bishop Stang High School Grade 10 students learn about career clusters, complete a Cluster Finder Survey, and explore their top three clusters to find potential career matches. Students can access a database of careers and related information to help them make informed decisions.
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Bishop StangHigh School Grade 10 Career Exploration
Career • What is a job vs a career? • Job = • Career =
Career Cluster Finder • The “Cluster Finder” Survey measures: • Activities you would like to do in the future & • Activities you are interested in or able to do right now Click on “Cluster Finder”
Here are examples of types of clusters that might show up: • Government & Public Administration • Arts, Audio/Video Technology & Communications • Business Management & Administration • Education & Training • Information Technology • Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security • Hospitality & Tourism • Marketing • Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources • Architecture & Construction • Finance • Human Services • Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) • Health Science • Manufacturing • Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
Career Cluster Finder After you finish, your top 3 Clusters will appear based on: • Activities that interest you • Personal qualities you have • Subjects you enjoy in school
Explore your “Career Cluster” • Career clusters are a way of grouping careers with common features and skills. Careers grouped into the same cluster typically require similar education and training. Exploring clusters can be a useful way to find a good career match, especially if you have general areas of interest but are not sure what specific careers match those interests. Career clusters can also help you better understand how your coursework in school can prepare you for certain types of careers. Once you pick a Career Cluster you can learn an overview of the field, credentials needed, related careers, related majors, and plan of study
What are your top 3 clusters? • Find out your top 3 clusters • What clusters came up for you? • Do your clusters match your actual interests? Fill in the worksheet with your top clusters!
Explore Your Clusters • Explore Careers & Clusters • Search Career by keyword, by category, or alphabetically
Learning About Careers Search the tabs to find the information you will need to complete the worksheet. • Overview • Employment Outlook • Credentials • Related Careers • Related Majors • Plan of Study (HS & College Plans)
Career Interest Profiler REALSITIC: enjoy working with mechanical devices, tools or very practical activities and often enjoy a physically active work environment. Tend to value tangible things and are often less inclined toward social interaction. Often described as mechanically gifted, practical and genuine. INVESTIGATIVE: enjoy solving analytical problems and exploring the world through scientific inquiry and careful observation. Often prefer to be in work environments that are not overly commercial or materialistic and frequently shy away from leadership roles. Often described as curious, analytical, or intellectual. SOCIAL: enjoy working closely with other people by helping, healing, teaching or comforting them. Value interactive work environments that emphasize personal interaction and tend to avoid the work environments associated with the Realistic type. Often described as caring, patient, a "team player", a "good listener" or persuasive. ARTISTIC: enjoy a work environment with a high degree of creative freedom and low structure. Enjoy the act of creation and value aesthetics. Tend to avoid conventional work environments, often described as creative, sensitive, introspective or idealistic.
ENTERPRISING: enjoy working toward political or economic achievement. They are drawn to leadership positions and tend to be highly motivated with strong leadership skills such as public speaking, negotiation and understanding organizational dynamics. They often avoid work environments associated with the Investigative type. They are frequently described as outgoing, ambitious or adventurous. CONVENTIONAL: enjoy conventional tasks such as working with data, maintaining records, organizing information and managing operational activities. They are typically good at keeping things organized and helping things run smoothly. They tend to value practical achievement and often avoid artistic or unstructured environments. They are frequently described as practical, organized, efficient or conscientious. USE THE CODE!Narrow down your career search using your Holland Code (under Exploring Careers & Clusters). Click on a career to see an overview, knowledge and skills needed, tasks and activities, and wages
What’s Next? Continue to explore careers on Naviance Family Connection. Grade 11: We will explore the college research sections on Naviance. Grade 12: Apply to college!