Career Planning Basics
This term describes the type of work you do for pay.
What is a job?
This cluster includes jobs like teachers, counselors, and principals.
What is Education & Training?
A pathway within Health Science that focuses on diagnosing and treating patients.
What is Therapeutic Services?
This step involves choosing clear short‑term and long‑term career targets.
What is goal setting?
This online tool helps students explore careers based on interests.
What is an interest inventory?
This long‑term pursuit often includes education, training, and advancement.
What is a career?
This cluster includes doctors, nurses, and medical technicians.
What is Health Science?
A pathway in Business that includes accounting and financial analysis.
What is Finance?
This step focuses on identifying the training, certifications, and abilities needed for your chosen career.
What is education and skills?
This type of interview involves asking a professional about their job.
What is an informational interview?
These are things you do well, such as writing or problem‑solving.
What are skills?
This cluster includes careers like carpenters, electricians, and plumbers.
What is Architecture & Construction?
A pathway in IT that focuses on protecting networks and data.
What is Cybersecurity?
This step includes creating a timeline and listing the tasks you need to complete to reach your goals.
What is action planning?
This type of experience lets you try a job before committing to it.
What is job shadowing?
These personal beliefs guide your decisions and career choices.
What are values?
This cluster includes careers in advertising, journalism, and broadcasting.
What is Arts, A/V Technology & Communications?
A pathway in Agriculture that focuses on animal care and management.
What is Animal Systems?
This step requires checking your progress and making changes when something isn’t working.
What is evaluation and adjustment?
This government resource provides detailed information about thousands of careers.
What is the Occupational Outlook Handbook?
This document summarizes your skills, experience, and education.
What is a résumé?
This cluster includes careers like police officers, lawyers, and judges.
What is Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security?
A pathway in STEM that focuses on designing and testing new products.
What is Engineering & Technology?
These four steps complete the career planning process after self‑assessment and exploration.
What are goal setting, education & skills, action planning, and evaluation & adjustment?
This step involves researching education, salary, and job outlook.
What is career exploration?