Educational Service Unit 7


Career Survey

 

Directions: Indicate 'yes' if you would be interested in doing the tasks listed, 'no' if you would not. Total the 'yes' answers below each cluster.

Agriculture-Conservation

Yes No

1. Plant and care for fruits or vegetables.

2. Breed, feed, and care for dairy and beef cattle.

3. Watch over and help nature in developing a new forest.

4. Protect fish, wild animals, and national park lands.

5. Plan and carry out programs to make sure we have clean air and water.
6. Train animals for entertainment or for obedience.

7. Grow flowers and plants that are bought for enjoyment.

8. Examine and test the soil for disease or fertilizing.

9. Care for sick birds or animals in a zoo.

10. Be in charge of a park with trees, flowers, grass, and water.

Total ____

Clerical and Sales

Yes No

1. Sell a car, rug, TV, or book to an interested person.

2. Do all the figuring and tax work for a hotel, bank, or business.

3. Type or file for a business.

4. Order, sort, file, and catalogue items in a video store.

5. Run a computer or design a program that makes a computer work.

6. Buy, stack, or sell groceries in a store.

7. Sell health, auto, and life insurance.

8. Help people plan and get tickets for plane or boat trips.

9. Greet people or answer the phone for a company.

10. Run a large office of computer programmers, secretaries, stock clerks, and file clerks.

Total ____

Construction

Yes No

1. Design the plans for a new building.

2. Paint walls, ceiling, and trim of a house

3. Lay the tile and carpet .

4. Install all electrical wiring in a building .

5. Install and service the heating .

6. Mix cement and lay bricks.

7. Build cabinets for a kitchen.

8. Lay the shingles or tiles on a roof.

9. Install the glass and screens in a home.

10. Assemble sink, pipes, and toilets.

Total ____

Mechanical

Yes No

1. Repair an airplane engine.

2. Put new rings and bearings in an engine.

3. Design and build a new, special wrench .

4. Repair toasters, vacuum cleaners.

5. Troubleshoot and repair radios or television sets.

6. Fix the diesel engine of a truck or tractor.

7. Work with metal on a drill press or a lathe.

8. Plan, cut, sew, and install auto seat covers.

9. Install a car door on the assembly line.

10. Design a new type of engine that saves fuel.

Total ____

Creative Arts

Yes No

1. Write poems, stories, or articles for people to read.

2. Be in a play or movie, dance, or play an instrument.

3. Set the type, prepare the art work, and print a book.

4. Make leather, silver, or clay jewelry and articles.

5. Plan, take, develop, print, and display photos.

6. Teach others to dance, sing, act, or play music.

7. Be in charge of a play, TV program, or movie.

8. Design the background, clothes, or costumes for a movie.

9. Plan, buy, and set up the total inside of a house.

10. Design and paint signs for customers.

Total ____

Educational and Personal Services

Yes No

1. Pilot an airplane that carries passengers.

2. Sell tickets or serve food to passengers.

3. Cut and style hair for men and woman.

4. Fix cavities or make false teeth for patients.

5. Help people solve personal, legal or job problems.

6. Help people with speech, vision or emotional problems.

7. Assist a doctor, dentist, or psychologist in his or her work.

8. Give help to family with social or religious problems.

9. Teach people to read, write, or solve math problems.

Total ____

Health/Hospitality Services

Yes No

1. Work in the operating room of a hospital.

2. Assist in taking blood pressure, temperature, and health information.

3. Assign rooms and see to the comfort of overnight guests.

4. Run an efficient and pleasant restaurant, hospital or hotel.

5. Cook for, serve, or clean up after guests.

6. Comfort and care for the needs of a person who is sick.

7. Discover the cause of a personÕs illness.

8. Help a person learn to walk, breathe, or talk after an illness.

9. Operate the machines that bring sick people back to health.

10. Assist in keeping order and cleanliness in a hospital, restaurant or hotel.

Total ____

Scientific - Technical

Yes No

1. Work with formulas, test tubes, microscopes, and chemicals.

2. Discover a new star, using an optical or radio telescope.

3. Learn the complete chemical makeup of the human body.

4. Locate a new deposit of aluminum inside a mountain .

5. Find a mountain range under the sea.

6. Forecast the movement of the weather in the U.S.

7. Discover a new kind of light ray.

8. Learn how ancient peoples lived and how that helps us.

9. Design a new air route from Africa to the South Pole.

10. Plot the strategy for the first landing of humans on the planet Venus.

Total ____

Directions: Record the total number of "yes" answers for each category below. Do you agree with the findings?

_____ Agriculture/Conservation ( Agriculture/Conservation Cluster)

_____ Clerical Sales (Clerical/ Sales/Business Cluster)

_____ Construction + _____ Mechanical =

_____ Construction /Mechanical/Industrial/Transportation Cluster

_____Creative Arts ( Creative Arts/Communications Cluster)

_____ Educational and Personal Services (Educational/Personal/Social Services Cluster)

_____ Health (Health Cluster)

_____ Scientific/Technical ( Scientific/Technical/Mathematical Cluster)

 

 

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