Career Clusters Research Project
The purpose of this activity is to help you:
- Learn how careers can be grouped together into clusters based on common characteristics
- See how these career clusters can be used to discover and explore new career possibilities
- Learn about some of the commonly used ways of grouping occupations
Go to www.careercruising.com. Enter your personal My Plan username and password in the spaces
provided, and click on Log In.
Log in to Career Cruising and click on Careers, then click on the 16 Career Clusters tab.
Select a cluster that interests you, and then click on the Related Careers tab.
(Optional: To further filter your results, you can select the level of education that you are planning on pursuing—
high school, 2-year college or technical training, or 4-year college/university).
Scroll through the list and click on a career that interests you.
Career:
Education and Training
1. Read the Job Description and Working Conditions. Answer the following questions:
What do people in this career do?
Along the way, career guidance professionals assist learners in assessing their educational goals, interests, abilities and skills to facilitate a good match to the cluster’s many pathway options. Learners participate in relevant educational opportunities framed in the context of the cluster. They gain knowledge and skills through coordinated workplace learning experiences such as site visits, job shadowing and internships. If they choose, they may achieve valuable skill certifications that lead to employment. Colleges and universities offer advanced degrees that prepare learners for professional and technical careers.
What are the working conditions like for people in this career? (e.g. Where do they work? What are their
typical work hours? What challenges do they face?)
Many people work in schools and colleges. Some challenges they may face are people not listening with the teacher or what kind of lesson plans to write.
2. Click on Earnings and Sample Career Path. Investigate the following:
What salaries do people in this career earn?
How do their job responsibilities change as they gain more experience and seniority (i.e. as they move
along the Sample Career Path)?
Click on Related Careers. Click on a career that interests you.
Career:
Athletic Trainer
3. Read the Job Description and Working Conditions. Answer the following questions:
What do people in this career do?
Athletic trainers help athletes maintain their physical health by teaching them how to avoid injuries, as well as by treating injuries.
What are the working conditions like for people in this career? (e.g. Where do they work? What are their
typical work hours? What challenges do they face?)
Employed by sports teams, hospitals, colleges, high schools, doctors’ offices, fitness centers, and sports medicine facilities Those who work for sports teams usually travel with the team Often work evenings and weekends The work can be physically demanding.
Like team trainers, college athletic trainers travel with their teams to away games; however, they usually don’t have to travel as far or as often. They also spend time in the off-season conditioning and rehabilitating athletes, and they may put in additional hours teaching classes or workshops.
Trainers who work at sports medicine clinics, doctors’ offices, or other facilities generally have more regular schedules than those employed by sports teams. They usually work 5 days a week for a total of around 40 to 50 hours a week.
Working as an athletic trainer can be physically demanding. Trainers are required to do a lot of standing, bending, and reaching and should be in good physical health.
4. Click on Earnings and Sample Career Path. Investigate the following:
What salaries do people in this career earn?
On the whole, salaries range from about $26,000 to $65,000 a year, with a median annual income of about $41,000. However, those trainers working for professional sports teams can earn substantially more. Team trainers often work evenings and weekends because that is when many games and practices are held. They also care for athletes’ needs outside of game and practice time, including during the off-season when many athletes are training for the next season or recovering from the last season’s injuries.
How do their job responsibilities change as they gain more experience and seniority (i.e. as they move
along the Sample Career Path)?
SUMMARY – YOUR VIEWS
5. Now that you have learned a little about these two related careers, answer the following questions:
What is similar about the two careers?
Both careers help and teach people information.
Which career do you think you would like more and why?
I would like to be a athletic trainer because i would like to travel with teams and help them when they get hurt.
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