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Thinking of your career as a series of static jobs is a thing of the past. Learning your strengths, skills, and values creates a pathway that targets your unique and individual skills. There are several Career Clusters quizzes that help you identify your skills where you will find individuals who share a set of tasks, technical and transferable skills, work environments and common outcomes. Every industry has a Cluster to assist in finding a role that matches your specific Cluster in a role you will enjoy.
Advance CTE, an organization of state, career and technical education leaders that supports connecting learning to work, released Out Now: Draft National Career Clusters® Framework and National Validation Survey! This draft has a fatal flaw in the document that by not recognizing the work of the family as an industry in the United States. Shame on these leaders! As supporters of Strong Families, Strong Communities, how do we correct and inform this organization of this error and share the importance of families.
The OSU Extension Live Healthy Live Well team uses technology to engage individuals, families, and workplaces in health and wellness programming across the dimensions of wellness. The first dimension identified is Career Wellness relating to career clusters.
Individuals engage in work to gain personal satisfaction and enrichment, consistent with their values, goals and lifestyle. Career Wellness focuses on mankind decisions around a career path and finding meaningful ways to use their strengths to improve the community they engage. Let us work together to correct the fatal flaw in the modernized Career Cluster Framework.
Written by: Margaret Jenkins, OSU Extension Educator, Clermont County, jenkins.188@osu.edu
Reviewed by: Beth Stefura, OSU Extension Educator, Mahoning County, stefura.2@osu.edu
References:
https://careertech.org/what-we-do/career-clusters/
https://swc.osu.edu/wellness-education-and-resources/ten-dimensions-of-wellness
https://www.aafcs.org/aafcs-advocacy/aafcs-public-policy/action-center
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