What Can I Be When I Grow Up?

What Can I Be When I Grow Up?

Explore 16 Career Clusters to help you decide.

Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources

Focuses on the essential elements of life—food, water, land, and air. This career cluster includes a diverse spectrum of occupations, ranging from farmer, rancher, and veterinarian to geologist, land conservationist, and florist. It also includes non-traditional agricultural occupations like wind energy, solar energy, and oil and gas production.

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Architecture & Construction

Focuses on designing, planning, managing, building, and maintaining the built environment. Principles of Architecture provides an overview to the various fields of architecture, interior design, and construction management

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Arts, A/V Technology, & Communication

Focuses on careers in designing, producing, exhibiting, performing, writing, and publishing multimedia content including visual and performing arts and design, journalism, and entertainment services. Careers in the AAVTC Career Cluster require a creative aptitude, a strong background in computer and technology applications, a strong academic foundation, and a proficiency in oral and written communication.

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Business Management & Administration

Focuses on careers in planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating business functions essential to efficient and productive business operations.

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Education & Training

Focuses on planning, managing, and providing education and training services and related learning support services. All parts of courses are designed to introduce learners to the various careers available within the Education and Training career cluster.

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Finance

Focuses on careers that focus on planning, services for financial and investment planning, banking, insurance, and business financial management. Careers in this field require problem-solving, organization, and communication skills.

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Government & Public Administration

Focuses on planning and performing governmental functions at the local, state, and federal levels, including governance, national security, foreign service, planning, revenue and taxation, and regulations. This is largest sectors in the U.S. in terms of number of workers employed.

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Health Science

Focuses on planning, managing, and providing therapeutic services, diagnostics services, health informatics, support services, and biotechnology research and development. To pursue a career in the health science industry, students should learn to reason, think critically, make decisions, solve problems, and communicate effectively. Students should recognize that quality health care depends on the ability to work well with others.

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Hospitality & Tourism

Focuses on the management, marketing, and operations of restaurants and other food/beverage services, lodging, attractions, recreation events, and travel-related services. Students learn knowledge and skills focusing on communication, time management, and customer service that meet industry standards. Students will explore the history of the hospitality and tourism industry and examine characteristics needed for success in that industry.

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Human Services

Focuses on preparing individuals for employment in career pathways that relate to families and human needs such as counseling and mental health services, family and community services, personal care services, and consumer services.

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Information Technology

Focuses on building linkages in IT occupations for entry level, technical, and professional careers related to the design, development, support, and management of hardware, software, multimedia, and systems integration services.

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Law, Public Safety, Corrections, & Security

Focuses on planning, managing, and providing legal services, public safety, protective services, and homeland security, including professional and technical support services. Students will examine the roles and responsibilities of police, courts, corrections, private security, and protective agencies of fire and emergency services.

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Manufacturing

Focuses on planning, managing, and performing the processing of materials into intermediate or final products and related professional and technical support activities such as production planning and control, maintenance, and manufacturing/process engineering.

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Marketing

Focuses on planning, managing, and performing marketing activities to reach organizational objectives.

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Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics

Focuses on planning, managing, and providing scientific research and professional and technical services, including laboratory and testing services, and research and development services.

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Transportation, Distribution, & Logistics

Focuses on careers in planning, management, and movement of people, materials, and goods by road, pipeline, air, rail and water and related professional support services such as transportation infrastructure planning and management, logistics services, mobile equipment and facility maintenance.

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Open Ended

After reviewing the Career Cluster's, tell me one or more things that you learned about yourself and choosing a career.

Still not sure? Visit these websites to learn more.

• Holland Code Inventory 1

  https://www.truity.com/test/holland-code-career-test

• Gardner Multiple Intelligences Test (a version of it)

  https://personalitymax.com/multiple-intelligences-test/

• Texas Genuine (Career Clusters) 

  http://assessment.texasgenuine.org/

• Foundation High School Endorsement Bulletins

  https://lmci.state.tx.us/shared/FHSEB/FHSEB.asp