Career Terminology

A set of roles a person chooses to play during his or her life that engage them in using personal talents to provide some service or goods that contribute to society.

• Career

• Career Exploration

• Jobs

• Entertainment

A long, progressive process of choosing education, training, and jobs that fit your interests and skills.

• Career

• Career Exploration

• Career Pathway

• Job Searching

Groups of careers that represent a very broad sectors of careers.

• Career Exploration

• Career

• Career Field

• Role

A group of careers that fill a particular role in the local economy. Careers in a cluster share common goals (e.g., finance, information technology, education, training, etc.)

• Interest

• Job Searching

• Career Clusters

• Career Field

A group of careers that fill a particular role within a Career Cluster. Careers in a Career Pathway tend to share a common set of skills and knowledge.

• Talent

• Job Searching

• Role

• Career Pathway

The system by which the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services is organized in a country or community.

• Career Pathway

• Economy

• Talent

• Role

A large group of people who share a common racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural history.

• Ethnicity

• Interest

• Trend

• Talent

A state of curiosity or concern about something.

• Ethnicity

• Role

• Interest

• Ethnicity

The short-term pursuit of a position that matches your current financial and career goals.

• Ethnicity

• Job Searching

• Role

• Talent

A way of describing something we do. We play more than one role at any one point in our lifetime (e.g., being a student, sister, employee, etc.)

• Talent

• Role

• Trend

• Economy