CAREER PLANNING 11 / CHAPTER 3 EXPLORING CAREERS

TRUE or FALSE: Knowing what you like to do and what you are good at is important when searching for a career.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE: The U.S. Department of Education has organized careers into 16 Different career clusters.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE: If you interview an engineer about his or her job experiences on the job, he or she is a secondary source.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

A primary source is original. It is a person, event, or document from which you get information directly.

TRUE or FALSE: A secondary source contains information gathered by other people and comments on the information.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE: Websites are excellent secondary sources for information about almost any type of career.

• TRUE

• FALSE

_________ are groups of related occupations.

• Research

• Internships

• Career clusters

• Source

A _________ can be a book, event, or document from which you get information directly.

• Research

• Internships

• Career clusters

• Source

It is fully developed and formally presented.

• Informal Research

• Job shadowing

• Formal Research

• Cooperative program

It is an arrangement in which a local businesses team up with schools, hiring students to perform jobs that use knowledge and skills taught in their school classes.

• Informal Research

• Job shadowing

• Formal Research

• Cooperative program

It is your personal experiences of generating ideas about the careers that you wanted to discover.

• Informal Research

• Job shadowing

• Formal Research

• Cooperative program