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following assessment tools are available to all students throughout high school.
● Career Cluster (completed in middle school)
● Learning Style Inventory 2.0 (completed freshman year)
● Do What You Are 2.0 (completed sophomore year)
● Career Interest Profiler (completed junior year)
● Career Search and Career Pages (completed junior year)
● Roadtrip Nation Interview Archive (may be completed independently)
● StrengthsExplorer® (may be completed independently)
● MI Advantage (may be completed independently)

16 Career Clusters
Exploring the 16 Career Clusters allows students to find a group of careers that they may enjoy based on their interests,
skills, and personality traits. Each individual career cluster share common features and skills. Careers in the same
cluster typically require similar education and training paths. Exploring career groups can help students find a good
career match, especially if they have several areas of interest but are not sure what specific careers best fit with those
interests. Career clusters also help students better understand how their courses can prepare them for certain types of
future careers.

PRHS students use Naviance Student to complete a comprehensive series of career exploration assessments to help
them align their chosen interests with high school courses. Exploring interests in high school can set you up for success
and help you discover potential careers. Students and families can find potential courses throughout the PRHS
Program of Study that align interests, strengths, personality traits and careers with specific career clusters. Click
here for additional resources and information about career exploration. Visit the National Association of State
Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium for more detail about the Career Clusters framework.
Additionally, you may visit PA Career Zone as another resource for information about the Career Clusters.
Career clusters are now integrated into each high school student’s graduation plan. Starting at the end of 8 grade,
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students will use their career education and work standards learning experiences, previous courses of study, and
outside interests to begin identifying possible career clusters to help guide them through the program of studies.
School counselors and teachers will then continue this conversation with students and families throughout their high
school careers to refine the cluster choices as students experience our program of studies and other co- and extra-
curricular interests.

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