Career Prep
Quest 2: Career Matches
United States Federal 16 Career Clusters Diagram.
Click here to view the pdf document of the chart below.
Introduction
Agents, this is where you will match your skills and interests to different careers.
Careers having similar characteristics and requiring similar skills can be grouped together. There are 16 national Career Clusters and 6 Michigan Career Pathways.
Once you know your interests, you can determine which of the national career clusters or pathways fit you best. You can also identify which careers interest you from the list of careers that match your survey/quiz results in Quest 1.
Step 1: Select three careers of interest to explore and compare
A. Download the Explore3careers document to use for your comparison.
Explore3Careers.doc Explore3Careers.pdf
B. Do a search and identify 3 career choices that interest you. Choose one of these two options for your exploration: Career Clusters or CareerShip
Career Clusters
Your task is to locate one or two career clusters/pathways or interests which match to your interest and skill areas identified in the first Quest. Each of the career clusters in the map of the Federal Career Clusters at the top of this page is a collection of occupations. Each cluster is then divided into several sub-sections called Pathways.
Download this Career Cluster Survey and check the items in each boxed section which best describe you. Put the number (total) of checks in that boxed section in the Total number spot provided. When done locate the top one or two career clusters which match to your interest and skill area.
CareerShip
Click on this link to ride the CareerShip and match your interests. Upon arrival at this page,
click on the interest area you identified from your first Quest (eg. Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) and check the box next to it and then click on the search button at the bottom.
Step 2: Research for your comparision
Start exploring the career(s) using the O*NET Database and the Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) to answer the questions on the Explore2Careers Chart downloaded in Step 1. Record your information on the Chart making sure you include salary information.
Video Research
Use one or more of these resources to locate and watch a video about the two careers you selected. Jot notes into your chart which add to the information have already you collected.
Career Occupation Search - type the career in the search box, then click the link provided to get more information and view a video
Step 3: Spreadsheet Analysis
Download these directions for creating your Spreadsheet Graph Analysis
