Title: Explore career clusters.
Course: Career Explorations (22515-36) > Section: Developing the Academic Career Plan Portfolio (ACPP): Exploring Career Clusters

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?