Exploration should include
- defining career clusters
- gaining exposure to the career clusters in Virginia (e.g., through job fairs, guest speakers)
- completing a career interest assessment
- identifying clusters that you find, interesting, exciting, and/or meaningful.
Process/Skill Questions:
- What jobs and careers can you identify?
- What is a career cluster?
- Why are jobs and careers separated into clusters?
- How do career clusters overlap?
- What gender stereotypes are associated with some careers? Why is it important to use the term firefighter rather than fireman? What other career stereotypes do you notice?
- What job tasks seem interesting or exciting to you?
- What jobs within these clusters are meaningful to you?
- Why should students repeat interest assessments?