General Knowledge
Career
Pathways
Career Clusters
Other
100

The course sequences that prepare students with the knowledge and skills necessary for success in their chosen career.

What is a program of study?

100

The definition of career.

What is an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life with opportunities for promotion?

100

A collection of programs and services intended to develop student's core academic, technical and employability skills, and provide them with education.

What is a career pathway?

100

The term that describes a group of careers that share common features.

What is career cluster?

100

The arrangement in which someone learns an art, trade, or job from another.

What is an apprenticeship? 

200

A term used to describe a course or program that teaches a specific job skill.

What is vocational?

200

The number of times the average person changes careers in their lifetime.

What is 3-7?

200

The career cluster an Interior Designer be grouped with. 

What is Architecture and Construction?

200

The number of career clusters.

What is 16?
200

An occupation that requires a particular skill set, knowledge, or ability. It is usually a hands-on job, but these jobs are found in every career cluster.

What is a skilled trade?

300
The term used to describe the time following high school. 

What is post secondary?

300

A person who organizes and runs their own business.

What is an entrepreneur?

300

The difference between a job and a career.

What is jobs focus on short-term goals while careers are centered around your long-term goals?

300

The Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources is made up of these career clusters.

What is Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources?

300

A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study (usually lasting 2 years).

What is an associate's degree?

400

A course that is required before another course can be taken.

A course that is required before another course can be taken.What is a prerequisite?

400

The rules of behavior that govern a group or society.

What are ethics?

400

True or false:  When in school, you can study multiple pathways.

What is true?

400

One of the following is NOT a career cluster.

- Marketing

- Hospitality and Tourism

- Science, Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing

- Education and Training

What is Science, Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing?

400

The term used to describe a wage that is below minimum wage that an employer can pay for the first 90 days of a new hire’s employment.

What is an initial employment wage” of $6.35 per hour?

500

The order, from broadest to most focused, in which clusters, careers, pathways are in.

Clusters, Pathways, Careers

500

The minimum wage in Iowa. 

What is $7.25 / Hour?

500

This action can provide direction and focus for your goals and aspirations. 

What is identifying a career pathway?

500

The Iowa Service Area that has the most career clusters. 

What is Human Services?

500

The youngest age you can begin employment in Iowa.

What is 14?

Note: Children may work in the street trades (like newspaper delivery and candy sales) at age 10 and in migratory labor (like harvesting) at age 12.