Clusters
This career cluster will prepare you to work on projects such as promotional campaigns, event planning, and new sales techniques.
What is marketing?
A short-term job, often unpaid, that gives students and other adults hands-on work experience.
What is an internship?
6
What is the number of universal work values?
The number of steps in the problem-solving model.
What is 5?
Building computer.
What are technical skills?
An activity or task performed by an individual to earn livelihood.
What is a job?
Series of short-term tasks to be completed that will result in the achievement of the objectives or outcomes.
What are action plans?
The ______________ cluster is about using your ability to motivate and your love of people to provide education and training that reaches individuals of all ages and across a range of industries.
What is Education and Training?
GED
What is the equivalency to a HS Diploma?
If _________________ is one of your highest work values, it's probably important to you to perform work that gives you a strong sense of accomplishment, requires you to meet new challenges, and allows you to learn new skills on an ongoing basis.
What is Achievement?
Step 5 of the 5-Step Problem Solving Model
What is evaluate your decision?
These skills are often included in job listings to describe the tasks of a position.
What are technical skills?
A ____________ is not confined to a job only, but it is a course of life, in which a person employs his knowledge, skills, education, competencies.
What is a career?
Typically requires achieving several short-term goals.
What are medium-term goals?
The ____________ cluster uses your skills in communication and problem solving to provide support to families and individuals with services from working in early childhood care to providing mental health services for older adults.
What is Human Services?
Usually requires four years of full-time college work, but some take longer.
What is a Bachelor's degree?
If _______________ is one of your highest work values, it's probably important to you to seek out jobs where the company stands behind its workers and where the workers are comfortable with management’s style of supervision.
What is Support?
Step 1 of the 5-Step Problem Solving Model
What is define the problem?
_________________ are often the reason employers decide whether to keep or promote an employee.
What are soft skills?
A ________________ is a grouping of occupations and broad industries based on commonalities.
What is a career cluster?
The S in SMART goals.
What is specific?
The _____________________________ cluster is about using your love of science, the environment or animals to prepare for careers that involve improving the quality and safety of food, cultivating and preserving our natural resources, and caring for animals.
What is the agriculture, food, and natural resources cluster?
Many people earn specialty ____________to help them advance in their careers.
What is a certification?
If _______________ is one of your highest work values, it’s probably important to you to feel a sense of responsibility for your work, and to bring your unique ideas or perspectives into the workplace.
What is Independence?
Step 4 of the 5-Step Problem Solving Model
Critical Thinker
What is a soft skill?
________________ is about building relationships.
What is networking?
Define what evidence will prove you're making progress and reevaluate when necessary.
What is measurable?
The ____________________ cluster uses your skills in planning and organization along with your love of technology, engineering and design to work in careers processing materials into products.
What is the manufacturing cluster?
Usually take two years of full-time post bachelor’s degree college work.
What is a master's degree?
If ________________________ is one of your highest work values, it's probably important to you to seek work that suits your preferred environment and work style, including one or more of these: specific pay level, job security, safe working conditions, keeping busy all the time, working alone, or having a wide variety of tasks
What are Working Conditions?
Step 3 of the 5-Step Problem Solving Model
What is examine the pros and cons of each solution?
You develop skills by ____________________ that improve your ability to do tasks.
Statements of desired future states, long-term and possible, and based on mission and vision. Typically few in number, with a target date.
What are goals?
Convert the following goal into a SMART goal.
"I want to study more."
What is "I will study for 2 hours per week for the entire semester."