Career
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- You can learn about different kinds of jobs by looking around...
- your neighborhood, local restaurants, and your home, (all of the above)
- arts, humanities, and sciences
- involves work performed in universities, research laboratories, libraries, concert halls, and newspaper offices
- natural resources and environment
- includes miners, forestry workers, and game wardens
- industrial
- interested in the mass production of goods in a factory setting
- How many different kinds of careers are there?
- about 20,000
- marine science
- involves both research and fishing
- An occupational cluster is a group of occupations that...
- are related in some way
- agriculture
- involves work performed in farm fields, orchards, barns, and storage areas
- What tells whether the need for certain work will grow or shrink over the next several years?
- employment trends
- business and office
- includes cashiers, purchasing agents, typists, and complaint clerks
- physical performing
- interested in athletics, sports, and other events
- home economics
- includes dietitians, nutritionists, fashion designers, and child care workers
- Career interest areas are categories of work that are similar according to...
- interest
- construction
- involves building such things as homes, roads, dams, and other structures
- protective (authority)
- interested in enforcing laws, regulations, policies, and standards
- public service
- includes firefighters, sanitary engineers, parole officers, and social workers
- scientific
- interested in research and experiments in living and nonliving things under controlled conditions
- hospitality and recreation
- includes jobs having to do with travel, food, lodging, entertainment, and sports
- leading-influencing
- interested in planning, directing, and managing the activities needed to organize and deliver programs and services
- transportation
- involves designing, operating, and maintaining systems and equipment for moving people and freight