Career Cluster
This two-word phrase describes a group of careers and industries that share similar types of skills or products.
What is a career cluster?
This is a safe place where people keep their money to save it or pull it out when needed.
What is a bank?
This professional is the head of the kitchen and is responsible for creating the menu and directing the cooks.
What is a chef?
This professional draws the blueprints and designs the layout of houses, schools, and skyscrapers.
What is an architect?
This word describes raw materials being turned into finished goods on a large scale, usually in a factory.
What is manufacturing?
In the United States, this is the total number of official career clusters recognized in schools.
What is 16?
This is a step-by-step plan that tracks how much money you earn versus how much money you spend.
What is a budget?
This is the first desk you visit when arriving at a hotel to get your room key and check-in.
What is the front desk?
Construction workers wear this bright, hard piece of gear on their heads to protect themselves from falling objects.
What is a hard hat?
Invented to speed up factory work, this system passes a product from worker to worker until it is fully built.
What is an assembly line?
Teachers, doctors, police officers, and therapists all work in clusters that focus on providing this to people.
What is a service (or public service)?
This professional helps people or businesses track their money, prepare taxes, and look over spending records,
What is an accountant?
This professional's job is to lead groups of visitors through museums, cities, or parks while sharing cool facts.
What is a tour guide?
This liquid material is poured into frames, hardens into a rock-like solid, and is used for sidewalks and foundations.
What is concrete?
Many modern factories use these programmable machines to do repetitive tasks quickly and safely.
What are robots?
Communication, teamwork, and problem-solving are called these because you can use them in any career cluster.
What are transferable skills?
Buying a tiny piece or "share" of a company, like Apple or Disney, is called owning this.
What is stock?
Roller coasters, water parks, and carnival games all belong to this specific type of outdoor entertainment venue.
What is an amusement park (or theme park)?
This skilled worker is the person you call to install, fix, or unclog the water pipes and sinks in a building.
What is a plumber?
This is the process of checking products at the end of the line to make sure they aren't broken or damaged.
What is inspection (or quality control)?
This word describes the smaller, more specific tracks or branches found inside each large career cluster.
What is a pathway?
This is the money a business makes after paying for all of its costs and expenses.
What is profit?
This 11-letter word describes the friendly and welcoming treatment of guests or strangers.
What is hospitality?
This giant machine uses a long, rotating arm and cables to lift heavy building materials high up into the air.
What is a crane?
This industrial career involves melting and joining metal parts together using intense heat and sparks.
What is welding?