Creating a Career PortfolioModule 2:

Investigating Careers

Investigating Careers

Job Categories or Clusters

In-depth Career Research

Career Preparation Training

A Short Introduction to Career Databases

Job Categories or Clusters

• A group of occupations related to an industry or field

• Help to narrow down a job-seekers search

• About 24 common career clusters on most job-search sites

Exercise 2.1: Choosing Fifteen Job Clusters

Exercise 2.2: Matching Job Clusters

• Look back at your recommended job list from Exercise 1.3

• Match your jobs with the job clusters

Six Selected Jobs Job Cluster

Teacher Education

Exercise 2.3: Jobs-Careers Exploration

Job Title:

Brief Job Description:

Education Required:

Salary Range:

Exercise 2.4: Researching a Career

Include the following in your in-depth career research:

• RIASEC code

• Job Cluster

• Job Title

• Job Summary

• Education/Training

Requirements

• Skills Needed

• Average Annual

Salary

• Future Outlook

• Related Job Titles

Exercise 2.5: Researching Educational Training

Career Interest: Accountant

Suggested MajorsRecommended Educational Institutions

Accounting Boston University

Economics Brown University

Exercise 2.6 : Entering Information into a Careers Database

Input the results of students’ in-depth research into the class’ careers database

Careers Database

Exercise 2.7: Sorting Information in a Jobs or

Careers DatabaseHow do you sort and create a report with the

class’ careers database?

Careers Database