MSCD 7-2Name ______

Pre-TestClass Period _____

PRE/POST-TEST

Making the best career decision involves knowing all of your options. When it comes time to choose a career, you must first realize that you can be anything you want to be. Secondly, you should know what careers are out there waiting for you. How can you make the best career decision for yourself if you don’t know what your choices are?

Let’s see what you know about how careers are organized into groups and what you know about preparing for career success! Don’t worry if you don’t know them all; you will learn them in this unit and be tested again. I know you will do great, but for now, just do your best.

1. / Nearly all careers fit into one or more of 11 categories or types of careers.
What term describes these 11 categories in Georgia?
2. / Within each of the 11 career categories, you can choose from one or more sub-categories (for example, if teaching is a category, you could choose to teach in one of the sub-categories of Elementary, Middle School, High School, or College).
What do we call these sub-categories within each career category?
If you could create 11 categories for all the careers there are, what would you name each of the categories (in Georgia, we call these the 11 Career Program Concentrations)?. You will be given the first letter of each one in abc order. For each category you list below, see if you can match a sub-category using the list below that would fit in each category and write it in the column to the right. (copy and paste if doing on computer)
No / CATEGORY / SUB-CATEGORY
(Copy from list below)
1 / A
2 / A
3 / A
4 / B
5 / C
6 / E
7 / E
8 / F
9 / G
10 / H
11 / M
SUB CATEGORIES ANSWER BANK
Broadcasting / Video Production
Culinary Arts
Engineering
Fashion Marketing
Interactive Media
Interior Design / Law and Justice
Performing Arts
Nursing
Teaching as a Profession
Veterinary Science
Why do you think we are taking time to learn all of the career categories and sub-categories (even if you already have an idea of what you want to be when you grow up)?
What is the relationship between academic achievement and successful career decision-making?