Definitions
This cluster focuses on harvesting resources from the earth, covering everything from managing Louisiana's pine forests to farming crawfish.
What is Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources?
This cluster involves planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating business functions essential to efficient and productive business operations.
What is Business Management & Administration?
This broad cluster encompasses planning and providing legal, public safety, protective services, and homeland security.
What is Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security?
This cluster focuses on providing vital support pathways for individuals and families, including mental health, counseling, and personal care services.
What is Human Services?
This cluster targets designing, producing, exhibiting, performing, writing, and publishing multimedia content, including visual arts and journalism.
Answer: What is Arts, A/V Technology & Communications?
This health-centered cluster includes professionals who provide direct patient care, diagnose illnesses, or handle electronic medical records.
What is Health Science?
This finance professional maintains and inspects financial records, ensuring that taxes are paid properly and businesses run efficiently.
What is an accountant?
This legal professional conducts research, prepares legal documents, and drafts arguments to assist attorneys with a case.
What is a paralegal?
This education professional designs curriculum, manages budgets, and oversees teachers and staff as the top administrator of a school.
What is a principal?
This cluster involves planning, managing, and providing scientific research and professional laboratory services.
Answer: What is STEM?
This cluster centers on the movement of people and products by air, road, rail, and water, as well as the storage of warehouse goods
What is Transportation, Distribution & Logistics?
Belonging to the Marketing cluster, this professional analyzes market trends to help companies decide how to package, brand, and sell their products.
What is a market research analyst?
Working within public safety, this first responder is trained to fight fires, treat medical emergencies, and handle hazardous materials.
What is a firefighter?
Belonging to human services, this licensed professional helps clients manage, diagnose, and treat mental health disorders and emotional challenges.
What is a mental health counselor (or therapist)?
This STEM professional studies the atmospheric conditions to forecast weather patterns and analyze climate trends over time.
Answer: What is a meteorologist?
Fueling Louisiana's festivals and restaurants, this cluster covers the operations of lodging, travel services, and culinary arts.
What is Hospitality & Tourism?
This high-ranking corporate executive is responsible for managing the financial actions, tracking cash flow, and planning the budget of an entire company.
What is a CFO (Chief Financial Officer)?
This public service worker manages public programs, implements policies, and handles the daily operations of city, state, or federal agencies.
What is a government administrator (or city manager)?
This specialist helps individuals and families solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives, often working for state agencies or hospitals.
What is a social worker?
This cluster centers on processing materials into intermediate or final products and includes related planning and production control.
What is Manufacturing?
This tech-driven cluster involves the design, development, support, and security of computer hardware, software, and networks.
What is Information Technology (IT)?
This cluster focuses on services for financial and investment planning, banking, insurance, and business financial management.
What is Finance?
This forensic job involves collecting, identifying, and analyzing physical evidence from crime scenes to help solve criminal investigations.
What is a forensic science technician (or crime scene investigator)?
This cluster involves planning, managing, and providing education, training, and related learning support services.
Answer: What is Education & Training?
Working behind the scenes in radio or television, this technical professional controls the audio boards to mix, record, and synchronize sound effects and music.
Answer: What is an audio engineer (or sound technician)?