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:
Police Officer
1. Read the Job Description and Working Conditions. Answer the following questions:
What do people in this career do?
Police officers reinforce the laws and they also learn about the laws.
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?)
they work in offices and also in the streets in cars. some challenges are facing criminals and illegal things
2. Click on Earnings and Sample Career Path. Investigate the following:
What salaries do people in this career earn?
32-100k
How do their job responsibilities change as they gain more experience and seniority (i.e. as they move
along the Sample Career Path)?
they get less hours at work and they get to have more opportunities
Click on Related Careers. Click on a career that interests you.
Career:
Crimal lawyer
3. Read the Job Description and Working Conditions. Answer the following questions:
What do people in this career do?
Desk Job
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?)
In their offices and the typical work hours are a regular job office. Some Challenges are protecting criminals
4. Click on Earnings and Sample Career Path. Investigate the following:
What salaries do people in this career earn?
50-250k
How do their job responsibilities change as they gain more experience and seniority (i.e. as they move
along the Sample Career Path)?
They have none.
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 of them are protecting people and they both have their pros and cons
Which career do you think you would like more and why?
Police officer because i like living a little risky.
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