Career Journeys

There’s no better way to explore a career than through the eyes of an insider. That’s why the Consortium launched Career Journeys, a series of video interviews with people in occupations spanning a wide variety of careers. Our guests answer questions that students investigating careers would ask during any job-shadow, including:

• How they became interested in their fields
• What skills make them especially suited for their work
• What advice they’d give interested students
• What they love about their jobs, and even what they don’t like so much.

Categories for our interviews are broad, and we initially used the 16 career clusters that the U.S. Department of Labor established to track employment trends, which take in multiple industries and many careers. Some jobs straddle more than one, so it’s worthwhile to just browse the library.

Sincer the initial launch of this series, Advance CTE developed new career clusters in a modernized framework. The new framework aims to reflect the fact that many jobs cross-sectors. To that end, we have endeavored to represent the new categories as well, as more and more of the country adopts the new framework. For example, as of this writing, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics uses the old clusters, while CareerOneStop uses the new clusters.

Adults using these resources to help students explore careers may find it helpful to use the Career Journeys Supplemental Materials we’ve prepared for teachers and counselors.

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