Career Exploration
Someone who prepares food for social events such as parties
What is a caterer?
This is what EMT stands for
What is Emergency Medical Technician?
True or False: An FBI agent does not need a 4-year degree.
What is FALSE?
This person treats children when they are sick by diagnosing their illness and prescribing them medicine
What is a Pediatrician?
Difference between salary and hourly wage.
Hourly wage: amount her hour you make
Someone who constructs, repairs, and installs building frameworks and structures made from wood and other materials.
What is a carpenter?
The type of degree that is a minimal requirement for a teacher
What is a Bachelor's Degree?
What is a Financial counselor?
This person shows people how to get out of debt and make more money.
A person who studies planets and the stars
What is an astronomer?
T/F: Financial Aid does not cover trade school
FALSE
An agent or firm that charges a fee or commission for executing buy and sell orders for an investor
What is a Stock Broker?
What is the general term used for indirect and non-cash compensation paid to an employee such as health insurance, life insurance, paid vacation, retirement, in addition to their salary/hourly pay.
What are job benefits?
Some who protects vulnerable children and supports families needing help, helps people solve and cope with problems in their every day lives, and treats mental, behavioral, and emotional issues.
What is a Social Worker?
An opportunity for a student to observe unpaid work activities on the job, usually for a few hours during one day.
What is a Job Shadow?
T/F: Jobs are easy to get if you meet the qualifications.
False. More and more people are getting degrees and certificates than ever, the job market is very competitive. ):
Someone you call to help fix your sink, toilet or bathtub. They mend or replace broken pipes and open clogged drains
What is a plumber?
A group of related careers
What are Career Clusters?
Define a claims adjuster
Inspects property damage to determine how much the company should pay for the loss
Someone who examines patients for signs of oral diseases, such as gingivitis, and provides preventive care, including oral hygiene.
What is a Dental Hygienist?
T/F: Getting into a trade union is easy.
False. Because these unions pay their workers a lot and protect them against employers, they are competitive to get into. Some unions can be more competitive than colleges.
A tradesman who works with glass and glass substitutes.
What is a Glazier?
A skilled professional who plans and designs buildings and generally plays a key role in their construction.
What is an architect?
A person who draws or produces maps
What is a Cartographer?
What career designs, analyzes, manufactures, and maintains mechanical systems?
What is Mechanical Engineering?
Why should you pursue a job that requires formal training? (formal training= degree, certificate)
To make more money.