Career Clusters
What is a Career Cluster?
A grouping of occupations in an industry based on common similarities.
What does the acronym CTSO stand for?
Career and Technical Student Organization
What are transferable skills?
General skills used in school and various types of jobs that are always necessary regardless of the career you choose
What is the ability to understand and recognize one's own emotions and how they affect behavior?
Emotional Intelligence
What is aptitude?
A. Natural talents for learning specific skills
B. assessment of likes and dislikes
C. Ability to perform tasks
D. The way a person looks at life
Natural talents for learning specific skills.
What is a Career Pathway?
The steps taken that prepares students after high school for their chosen career cluster.
What is the benefit of participating in CTSO’s?
Develop meaningful business partnerships.
Develop school and community leaders.
Enable students to achieve high academic and occupational standards.
Enhance student self-esteem and self-confidence.
Help students to integrate contextual and academic learning.
Link school-based learning to the real world of work and family.
Motivate youth to become better students and productive citizens.
Which transferable skill is applied when a person continues to work toward a goal even when things change?
Adaptability
What are the 4 components of emotional intelligence?
Self-awareness, Self-management, Social awareness, Relationship management.
How are aptitude skills applied to possible career choices?
A. Identifies careers that use your natural strengths
B. Identifies careers that you would have to work hard to be good at
C. Identifies careers that are least interesting to you
D. Identifies careers that you will like and not love
Identifies careers that use your natural strengths
To which career cluster do these occupations belong?
Political Scientist
City Mayor
Mail Carrier
Court Clerk
Government and administration
Which CTSO is associated with the program of study of Agriculture?
FFA
What are problem-solving skills?
A. speaking and writing ( presentations, email, letter, in person, on the phone)
B. sending and receiving messages
C. handling conflict
D. computer knowledge
handling conflict
What is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others?
Empathy
An individual's quality, traits or behavior is their:
Personality
To which career cluster do these occupations belong?
Pharmacist
Dentist
Pediatrician
Registered Nurse
Health Science
Which CTSO is associated with the program of study for Health Science?
HOSA
Cooperating, sharing ideas, and working with a group are examples of which type of transferable skill?
Which of the following is a key characteristic of emotional intelligence?
A. Able to control one's emotions
B. Impulsivity
C. Indifference (not caring)
D. Perfectionism
Able to control one's emotions
The particular manner in which one gains education, and learns best:
Learning Style
To which career cluster do these occupations belong?
Jeweler
Metal Worker
Welder
Industrial Engineering Technician
Manufacturing
Which CTSO is associated with the program of study of Business, Marketing, and Finance?
FBLA
What is the ability to understand and manage emotions?
Empathy
Being able to share, send, and receive information to others:
Communication
The way a person looks at life:
Attitude