The "Helper" Cluster
If you love helping people feel better or studying how the body works, you belong in this cluster.
What is health science?
In the "Reality Ride" this is one of the ultimate goal of working hard
What is Opportunity (or freedom, self-respect)
If you enjoy working outside with animals or plants, this is the cluster for you.
What is Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources?
If you love computers, coding, or creating apps, you are looking at this cluster.
What is Information Technology (IT)?
This cluster is for actors, singers, and graphic designers.
What is Arts, A/V Technology, & Communications?
Name the pathways you can take after high school
straight to work, military, college/university, community college/trade school
This one-page document is a "movie trailer" for your life, summarizing your education, skills, and work experience.
What is a Resume?
True or False: Most people stay in the exact same job for their entire lives.
What is False? (The average person changes careers multiple times).
A school counselor, a teacher, or a coach would all fall under this career cluster.
What is Education & Training?
This WhyTry metaphor reminds us that even in a tough job, we can choose attitude.
What is Defense Mechanisms
This cluster is for people who like to design, build, and maintain structures like houses or bridges.
What is Architecture & Construction?
This cluster is all about managing money, banking, and investments.
What is Finance?
A journalist who writes for a newspaper or a news anchor on TV belongs to this cluster.
What is Arts, A/V Technology, & Communications?
True/False: You have to graduate high school to go to community college or trade schools.
False
This is a formal meeting where a potential employer asks you questions to see if you are a good fit for the job.
What is an Interview?
This is the term for the total amount of money you earn in a year before taxes are taken out.
What is Gross Income?
This cluster includes jobs like social workers or mental health counselors who help people solve personal problems.
What is Human Services?
This character chose the "easy road" of anger and revenge after being denied the Dragon Scroll, leading to a life in Chorh-Gom Prison.
Who is Tai Lung?
If you like taking things apart and putting them back together, like cars or airplanes, you’re in this cluster.
What is Transportation, Distribution, & Logistics?
If you are good at persuading people to buy a product or designing advertisements, you are in this cluster.
What is Marketing?
True or False: You can be a "Creative" person and still work in the Science or Tech clusters.
What is True? (Innovation requires creativity!)
How many years do you have to go to school to be a teacher? (what degree is required for teaching?)
4 years of college or bachelor's degree
This word is the ability to share information clearly with others through speaking, writing, or body language.
What is Communication?
These are the activities you enjoy doing in your free time that could eventually lead to a career path.
What are Interests?
If you want to protect your community as a police officer or a lawyer, you are in this cluster.
What is Law, Public Safety, & Security?
According to the Reality Ride, if you want a different outcome, you have to change these two things.
Easy-fast or Harder but worth it choices
This cluster involves turning raw materials into finished products, often using high-tech machinery.
What is Manufacturing?
This cluster is the "backbone" of every company, dealing with organization, leadership, and office work.
What is Business Management & Administration?
This specific job in the Creative cluster involves filming and editing videos for YouTube or Movies.
What is a Video Editor (or A/V Technician)?
What degree(s) does Mrs. Hoover have?
Bachelor's and Masters (bonus if you say Master's in school counseling)
If you show up to work on time every day and do what you say you’ll do, you are showing this important trait.
What is Reliability (or Dependability)?
How long as Mrs. Hoover been a school counselor at Greene County Middle School?
4 years
A "Chef" might seem like they belong in Arts, but they actually fall under this "Service" cluster.
What is Hospitality & Tourism?
True/False You only need to "Plug in" to your support systems while you are in school, not when you have a job
False
An Electrician works in Construction, but a person who designs the circuit boards for computers is in this cluster.
What is STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math)?
A person who works for the city or state government as an elected official is in this cluster.
What is Government & Public Administration?
0: This WhyTry "Visual" is most important for artists because they often have to try many times before their work is "perfect."
What is Tearing Down the Wall (or Resilience)?
What is a career cluster?
A group of careers that have similar characteristics.
This is the ability to change your plans or learn new ways of doing things when a situation at work changes.
What is Adaptability?
What does Mr. Hoover do for work?
Drive truck for Coca-Cola