Since the 1960s, career cluster resources have been used as career planning and exploration tools in schools, learning communities, and organizations across the country. Career Clusters is a system that combines educational and career planning.

Step 1: Identify career group interest areas

Career clusters are groups of similar occupations and industries. When teachers, counselors, and parents work with teens, college students, and adults, the first step is to complete the career cluster assessment. The assessment identifies the highest career cluster areas. Career assessments show rankings of teens, college students, and adults from one of the following 16 interest areas or groups:

1. Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources

2. Architecture and Construction

3. Arts, audiovisual technology and communication

4.Business, Management and Administration

5. Education and training

6. Finance

7. Government and Public Administration

8. Health Sciences

9. Hospitality and Tourism

10.Human services

11. Information technology

12. Law, public safety and protection

13. Manufacturing

14. Marketing, Sales and Service

15.Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

16. Transportation, Distribution and Logistics

Step 2: Exploring Career Clusters and Related Careers

After identifying the major career groups, teens, college students, and adults explore different careers and create educational plans. Career cluster tools used in educational and career planning include:

• LISA: a comprehensive database of career groups
• Models
• brochures
• roads
• high school curriculum
• Areas of interest and skills
• crosswalks

After completing a career cluster assessment, teens, college students, and adults review websites, career templates, brochures, pathways, and high school plans. One of the most unique comprehensive career group resources is the Louisiana Integrated Skills Assessment (LISA), an online program. LISA allows you to explore career groups, careers, skills, training requirements, and more. There are 3 steps in the LISA program:

STEP 1: Click here to select a race group

STEP 2: Click here to select a race group

STEP 3: Explore occupations within this career group

In Step 1, when you choose a race group, you’ll see a description of the group. When you select a race group in Step 2, you see different races. Finally, in Step 3, you will see a lot of information:

• job descriptions
• Educational and training requirements
• Crosswalks, eg ONET, DOT, GOE and other codes
• Skills
• Knowledge
• skills
• Chores
• work values
• Labor market information

Although LISA is an amazing program, in the classroom or in the workshop, you need printed materials. When using printed materials, the career model is the best place to start. The models provide excellent overviews listing group definitions, career examples, trajectories, knowledge, and skills. Visual models show career groups, subgroups of groups, and related careers. Models are a great way to introduce racing groups.

For presentations, workshops, and group discussions, the career group brochures provide additional information. Adults and teens read about the different careers that are available in each career group. Teachers, counselors, and parents use the booklets to solidify the career potential or educational decisions of adults and adolescents. The brochures cover topics such as:

• Definition of race groups
• Careers
• career paths
• employment prospects
• skills
• Credentials

Teachers, counselors, and parents use the career paths for more detailed information. Career paths are subgroups or areas of concentration within career groups. Each route contains race groups. Professional groups have similar academic skills, technical skills, educational requirements, and training requirements. Career Pathways are study plans that outline required high school courses, post-secondary courses, and related careers. Career Paths are essential tools that teachers, counselors, parents, and other adults use to provide advice on educational planning.

Various websites present High School Curriculums. These syllabi show required, elective, and suggested courses for each grade level. School plans also match career clusters with related majors, career paths, and post-secondary options. Teachers, counselors, and parents find these school plans to be guides in selecting the right high school courses for potential careers. Beyond high school, the Utah System for Higher Education has created a College Career Guide. Parents, teachers, and counselors can use the guide to match college majors with degree and certificate programs.

Additional Resources for Counselors and Teachers

For curriculum planning and educational programs, there are detailed knowledge and skills charts and group crosswalks. Knowledge and Skills expand on the information listed in the career group templates. For each area of ​​knowledge and skills, there are performance elements and measurement criteria. The crosswalks show the relationships between the race groups and other race models:

Career groups build a bridge between education and career planning. There are different types of career group resources available: videos, websites, brochures, brochures, activity sheets, and workbooks. Teachers, counselors, and parents use career group resources to successfully complete educational and career planning.

Means:

American Careers Career Paths, Career Communications, 6701 W. 64th St., Overland, KS 66202, 800-669-7795

Career Click, Illinois Department of Employment Security, 33 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60603, (312) 793-5700

Index of CIP Codes by Career Group, Postsecondary and Adult CTE Division, Office of Career and Technical Education, 333 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17126, (717) 772-0814

Group and Career Videos, Career One Stop, US Department of Labor, Frances Perkins Building, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20210, 866-4-USA-DOL

College Major Guide Utah System for Higher Education, Board of Regents Building, The Gateway, 60 South 400 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84101-1284, (801) 321-7100

Find Careers (Videos), iSeek Solutions, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, Wells Fargo Place, 30 7th St. E., Suite 350, St. Paul, MN 55101-7804

High School Curricula, New Hampshire Department of Education, 101 Pleasant Street

Concord, NH 03301-3860, (603) 271-3494

Introduction to Career Clusters, Professional Education, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, PO Box 543

Blacklick, OH 43004-0544,

Louisiana Integrated Skills Assessment (LISA), Internet-customized version of OSCAR, a product of Texas Workforce Commission/Career Development Resources, TWC/CDR, Austin, TX 78753

Maryland Career Groups, Maryland State Department of Education 200 West Baltimore Street Baltimore, MD 21201,

Rhode Island Career Groups, Rhode Island Career Resource Network, 1511 Pontiac Avenue, Cranston, RI 02920, 401-462-8790

School to Career Clusters, State of Connecticut, Department of Labor, Job Bank, 645 South Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457, (860)754-5000

States Racing Clusters Initiative (SCCI), 1500 W. Seventh Avenue, Stillwater, OK 74074

Career pathway plans, career pool, knowledge and skills charts

VTECS Cluster Frames, VTECS, 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA, 30033, 404-679-4501 ext 543

What are race groups? Career Prospects System, New Mexico Career Resource Network, CAREER TECHNICAL AND LABOR EDUCATION BUREAU (CTWEB), Education Building, 300 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe, NM 87501, (505) 827-6512