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Chapter 5 Types of Careers
Use a software program to create a chart
of your key interests and aptitudes for use in
examining potential career paths. List your
interests and aptitudes on the left side of the
chart. Across the top, identify five jobs that
appeal to you.
Building Technology Skills
Writing. Make a career ladder to illustrate
your personal career plans, to the extent you
currently envision them. (The career ladders
should contain information ranging from the
current year to 10 years from now.) Write a
report identifying the transferable skills that
relate to the occupations you have listed.
Building Academic Skills
1. Find a news story about a change in
technology. What jobs or career cluster will
be affected? Discuss the story in class.
2. Visit your guidance offi ce and obtain three
pamphlets describing jobs you think you
would like.
3. Interview someone in a career that
interests you. Ask questions about the pros
and cons of the career. Find out what a
typical day at work involves. Prepare an
oral report on your fi ndings.
Building Career Knowledge
Work with a team of three or four
classmates to create individual posters for
six career options within a career cluster.
Determine who will do which tasks. Prepare
a brief fact sheet for each career that covers
the basic job factors discussed in Chapter 4.
Use Department of Labor references for your
research. Use the computer to conduct your
research and create the posters. Determine
which facts to display on each poster.
Identify the career field and career cluster on
each. Present your posters to the class and
summarize the key points about each. Attach
the appropriate fact sheet to each poster to
allow classmates to learn more details later, if
they so desire.
Building Career Skills