Career Vocabulary
Career Clusters
Education
Jobs
BCPS
100

Careers are made up of various ________ one holds throughout life

What are jobs

100

A nurse falls into this career cluster

What is Health Sciences?

100

A role or task you perform without being paid but provides you with experience and helps others

What is volunteering?

100

The minimum working age in Maryland

What is 14?

100

A specialized program of study based on interest areas, not found in a comprehensive high school, and which requires an application

What is a Magnet Program

200

A summary of one's education and job experiences used to get a job

What is a resume?

200

A Disney World Travel Agent falls into this career cluster

What is Hospitality and Tourism.

200

What you wear when you walk across the graduation stage to get your high school diploma

What is a cap and gown (and big smile!)

200

Someone who installs and repairs electrical wiring, systems, and fixtures in buildings. 

What is an electrician?

200
A specialized program that can lead to a college degree, certificate, or apprenticeship and which can include an internship or work/study experience in high school
What is a CTE (Career and Technology Education) program?
300

What you earn when you are not earning an hourly wage, but a total amount of money each year regardless of your work hours

What is a salary?

300

A machinist who makes metal parts falls into this career cluster

What is manufacturing?
300

A two-year degree that prepares students for a specific career or further education.

What is an Associate's Degree?

300

An institution that houses many different careers that work together with the main purpose to defend a nation and protect vital national interests

What is the military?

300
A program used by BCPS for students to take interest surveys and collect career goals and data

What is Naviance?

400
When someone is finished working and lives off saved earnings and Social Security
What is retirement?
400

A chicken producer falls into this career cluster

What is Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources?

400

Degree awarded to students who complete a 4-year college program.

What is a Bachelor's Degree?

400

This includes the job title, job purpose, job duties and responsibilities, required qualifications, preferred qualifications and working conditions

What is a job description?

400

A meeting you have with your BCPS School Counselor every year, beginning in 7th grade.

What is the Six(6) Year Plan Meeting?

500

A course of events including all work, paid and unpaid, which are completed during a lifetime.

What is a career?

500

A computer network analyst falls into this career cluster

What is Information Technology
500

An object of a person's ambition or effort; a personal aim or desired result.

What is a goal?

500

One who creates, starts, organizes and manages a business or enterprise.

What is an entrepreneur?

500

The college with which BCPS partners to offer Dual Enrollment in high school and college courses

What is the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC)?
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