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A wealth of information exists that explains the relationships between school subjects and
careers. Across the nation, children, teens, teachers, and counselors use Career Interests Areas or
Clusters to explore careers and to make school study plans. There are sixteen (16) Interests Areas
or Clusters:
Worker Characteristics
Worker Requirements
Experience Requirements
Occupation Requirements
Occupation Specific
Occupation Characteristics
Worker Characteristics are the acquired knowledge, skills, effective work performance.
Worker Requirements are characteristics descriptors relating to work-related qualities that are
acquired and/or developed through experience and education.
Basic Skills — Developed abilities that facilitate learning or the gaining of knowledge
Cross-Functional Skills — Developed skills that increase performance of activities that
occur across jobs
Knowledge — System of principles and facts
Education — Prior educational experience required to perform in a job
Experience Requirements — requirements that are required to perform to work activities and
explicitly linked to certain types of work activities.Experience and Training — When someone
is hired to perform a job, there are the following requirements –
Basic Skills - Entry Requirement — Entry requirement for skills that are need to
increase learning or the gaining of knowledge
Cross-Functional Skills - Entry Requirement — Entry requirement for developed
abilities and skills that impove performance of activities that occur across jobs
Licensing — Licenses, certificates, or registrations that are awarded to show that a job
holder has gained certain skills.
Occupation-Specific Information
Occupational Requirements are factors that describe what various occupations require.
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