There are six Career Clusters, and they help us think differently about how people work.
The research shows us that when we think about work, most of us think about the same key jobs. I’m talking about jobs like ‘lawyer’, ‘teacher’, ‘firefighter’, ‘doctor’ – the visible jobs. In fact around half of all teenagers aspire to just 1% of all jobs – that’s right, 50% of teenagers want to work in just TEN key jobs. But the majority of adults don’t actually work in these jobs at all – they work as managers, salespeople, technicians, and operators, and this is where the Career Clusters come in. Instead of using industries to group jobs together, the Clusters are groups of jobs that share a set of core technical and transferable skills, key tasks, work settings, and common outcomes, and you’ll find people from each Cluster in every industry.
We have aligned these to the curriculum choices we will offer in Year 11 and Year 12. This does not mean that students are locked into a career pathway, but rather will choose subjects that suit their interests and ability levels. In fact, it will ensure students are choosing subjects they are interested in, and hopefully passionate about. The skills and knowledge they learn from these courses will be transferable, meaning they will be able to move between a variety of careers and industries in their post-school lives.
