Careers
This helps you to find out how you might move from one job to another within a career cluster.
What is a career path?
The father of the counseling profession
A group of professionals that help individuals, families, and communities handle issues and problems that may arise within society.
What is Human Services?
the field once called "Home Economics"
What is Family and Consumer Sciences?
A form of dress appropriate for an interview that consists of something nicer than jeans but less fancy than a suit and tie.
What is "business casual"?
Clergy falls into this career cluster
What is Family and Community services?
She was a proponent of children's educational and vocational guidance in learning to better employment potential.
Who is Anna E. Reed?
Their goal is to help people be more satisfied, independent, and productive members of society.
What are human services practitioners?
This organization provides a wonderful online resource called the Occupational Outlook Handbook, which provides detailed information about almost every profession, including market data, outlook, and educational requirements.
What is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?
A meeting arranged by a potential employer that is intended to give them the opportunity to assess whether or not a candidate is the right fit for a job.
This career cluster requires spending time working with young children and focusing on their development and proper care.
What is Early Childhood Development and Services?
The founder of Home Economics
Who is Ellen Richards?
an earned distinction used to indicate a professional is suitable and qualified to do something or work in a field
What is a credential or certification?
He worked with Anna Reed in the areas of guidance and career counseling to help students discover their skills for the most appropriate employment.
Who is Eli Weaver?
the way an employee conducts him or herself at work
What is professionalism?
Real Estate Agent is an example of this career cluster
What is Consumer Services?
He was an American psychologist who developed "mental tests" and believed that inherited as well as environmental influences have an effect on a person's mental capabilities.
Who is James Cattell?
a career within Carrboro High School that falls within the Human Services field.
What is a Guidance Counselor?
Consumer services, early childhood services, family and community services, and counseling and mental health are examples of...
What are career clusters?
a widely held but oversimplified idea of a particular type of person or a thing. An example: All old people think all young people are lazy.
What is a stereotype?
a progression of related jobs a person has over an extended period of time
What is a career?
She was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize for her work involving women and children; also thought to be the founder of modern social work.
Who is Jane Adams?
Human Services are often called THIS type of profession.
What are "helping" professions?
The main purpose of this establishment was to provide social and educational opportunities for working class people within the urban Chicago neighborhood, many of whom were recent immigrants.
What was the Hull House?
an example of what not to wear to any interview, ever, is
What are revealing, dirty, or wrinkled clothes?