With these programs, you can host a job fair in your classroom any day of the year. In this series, people from diverse fields share their experience and advice about the jobs they’ve chosen and how they got them. Real people in real jobs talk about opportunities in the arts, audio visual technology and communications; hospitality and tourism; architecture and construction; and human services.Correlates to the National Standards for Life Work
The four programs in the series are:
THE ARTS, AUDIO VISUAL TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS
Here’s a place where your students can turn their creativity into a career. This program looks at opportunities to design, produce, exhibit, perform, write, or publish in a variety of media, including theater, film, textiles, newspapers, radio, and television. Real-world insights into this cluster are provided through interviews with a cable TV broadcast engineer, newspaper reporter, professional actor, commercial artist, and a TV director/producer. 24 minutes
HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM
The hospitality and tourism cluster is all about providing food, lodging, and entertainment to people when they’re away from home. This program provides an inside track on what the work is like by talking to a travel agent, hotel manager, baker, and waitress. 22 minutes
ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION
With over 13 million jobs in the U.S. alone, the Architecture & Construction Career Cluster is simply huge. This program offers a sense of how wide-ranging the opportunities can be by looking at the educational and training requirements, as well as the actual work of an architect, plumber, electrician, and construction and building inspector. 20 minutes
HUMAN SERVICES
Because it’s all about interacting with and helping other people, the Human Services Cluster is also where some of the most personally rewarding careers can be found. This program shows what Human Services has to offer by spotlighting several diverse jobs in the field. A preschool teacher, clinical psychologist, social worker, and cosmetologist discuss what they love about their jobs and what they did to get started. 22 minutes