These are the 16 categories that all occupations can be sorted into.
What are Career Clusters?
100
People working in this cluster often work outdoors and deal with food production, wood and other natural resources.
What is Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources?
100
Journalists, cartoonists, Audio/video technicians and Art Directors all work in this cluster.
What is the Arts, A/V Technology & Communications Cluster?
100
The highest degree of education you can earn.
What is a Doctorate Degree?
100
This is a degree that takes approximately four years to complete at a college or university.
What is a Bachelor's Degree?
200
The employees in this cluster oversee the running of restaurants and hotels, among other entertainment venues.
What is the Hospitality and Tourism Cluster?
200
President Obama and Mayor Tom Barrett both have jobs in this cluster.
What is Government and Public Administration?
200
CEO, Human resource managers and Administrative jobs all fall into this cluster. Their function is to ensure the efficient and productive running of businesses.
What is the Business Management and Administration Cluster?
200
This is a degree from an academic program that takes from 1 to 2 years to complete.
What is an associates degree?
200
To get this training you can join the army, navy, air force or marines.
What is Military training?
300
Bank Tellers, Economists and Accountants are all careers listed under this career cluster.
What is the Finance Cluster?
300
The people working in this cluster are on the lookout for your and our nation's safety.
What is Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security?
300
The careers in this cluster are focused on the design, development and support of hardware, software, multimedia and systems integrations services.
What is Information Technology?
300
You are enrolled in this program when you are studying for your Master's Degree.
What is a Graduate Program?
300
This is a degree that you earn after you earn your bachelor's degree. It takes an additional 1 to 3 years to complete.
What is a Master's degree?
400
Mr. Schwantes and Mrs. Greco both have careers that fall into this cluster.
What is Education and Training?
400
If you are designing your dream home you may employ people from this cluster to design the inside and outside. This may include an architect and an interior and landscape designer.
What is Architecture and Construction?
400
People in this cluster are strong in Math and Science. They become statistician, microbiologist and mathematicians.
What is the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Cluster?
400
This is what you are doing when you are establishing relationships to help you get started or ahead in your career.
What is Networking?
400
In this training you combine school with on the job training that is often paid.
What is an apprenticeship?
500
This cluster is focused on the movement of people, materials and goods.
What is the Transportation Cluster?
500
The profession of Psychiatry, in which you prescribe medications and counsel people, would fall into both of these clusters.
What are the Health Science Cluster and Human Service Cluster?
500
Careers in this cluster are focused on the processing of materials into products.
What is Manufacturing?
500
When you start out in college as a freshman at a 4 year university you are enrolled in this program.
What is an Undergraduate Program?
500
You work with equipment, tools and technology in this type of job.