3. Choose Wisely
• If you work:
▫ 8-hour day
▫ age of 22 to the age of 62
▫ never work overtime
▫ 400,000 hours at your job
That’s a long time to be miserable, so it’s really
important to choose a career that you will enjoy.
4. Career Clusters
• 16 different clusters
• Help you connect:
▫ What you learn in school
▫ What you already know
▫ Knowledge and skills you need to
succeed on the job
• Let’s Look at the Clusters!
5. Which one is your best match?
• Career Cluster Survey
http://intranet.matcmadison.edu/career-assess/
Open your student-teacher drive for the link!
7. Technology and Careers
• How many jobs use technology today?
• 68% of working Americans use a computer at
work
• 84% say it’s essential for their job
• 34% have access to Internet at work
• 63% say it’s essential for their job
8. Examples
• Advertising Managers
▫ Print Shop, Sound Engineering, CorelDraw,
Photoshop, Digital Photography and Graphic
Design, Video Editing, , Animation, Photo Editing,
and Web Page Design
• Architects
▫ CADD (Computer-Aided Design and Drafting)
9. • Carpenters
▫ 2-D (blueprint) and 3-D layout of a house.
• Cartoonists and Animators
▫ Paint and Animation, Digital Photography and
Graphic Design, Web Page Design, and Video
Editing
• Engineers (General)
▫ produce and analyze designs; to simulate and test
how a machine, structure, or system operates; to
generate specifications for parts; and to monitor
product quality and control process efficiency
10. • Musicians (singers and band members)
▫ edit their recordings using computer software or
use technology in place of an instrument, creating
a "synthesized" instrument
• Photographers
▫ raw image has been transferred to a
computer, photographers can use processing
software to crop or modify the image and enhance
it through color correction and other specialized
effects
11. What technology is required for your
career??
• Computers
▫ What types of programs (word processing,
spreadsheets, database, CAD, etc.)
▫ Internet (research, online apps, etc.)
• Machines
▫ Digital
▫ Computer-aided
• What do you think would be helpful to
your career?
