Confused about your future?
Take this simple interest inventory
Directions: Circle each number that applies to you

Career Cluster 1
Activities that sound interesting

1. Reading or writing stories or articles
2. Designing & building scenery for a play
3. Taking photographs
4. Acting in a play or movie
5. Listening to or playing music
6. Designing clothing, brochures or posters

My personal qualities

1. Imaginative
2. Creative
3. Outgoing
4. Expressive
5. Performer

In my free time I would enjoy

1. Working on the school paper or yearbook
2. Acting in a play
3. Painting pictures, drawing

School subjects/activities in which I do well

1. Social studies
2. Choir, chorus or band
3. Creative writing
4. Art

Career Cluster 2
Activities that sound interesting

1. Interviewing people
2. Using computer programs
3. Winning a sales contest
4. Being captain or leader of a team
5. Working with numbers
6. Dealing with money

My personal qualities

1. Practical
2. Independent
3. Organized
4. Leader
5. Like to be around people

In my free time I would enjoy

1. Being in a speech contest or debate
2. Surfing the Internet
3. Starting my own business

School subjects/activities in which I do well

1. Speech
2. Language
3. Math
4. Marketing

Career Cluster 3
Activities that sound interesting

1. Preparing medicine in a pharmacy
2. Helping sick people
3. Working with animals
4. Helping with sports injuries
5. Studying anatomy and disease
6. Performing surgery

My personal qualities

1. Compassionate and caring
2. Good listener
3. Good at following directions
4. Conscientious and careful
5. Patient

In my free time I would enjoy

1. Volunteering at a hospital
2. Taking care of pets
3. Exercising and taking care of myself

School subjects/activities in which I do well

1. Math
2. Science
3. Biology
4. Chemistry

Career Cluster 4
Activities that sound interesting

1. Helping people solve problems
2. Working with kids
3. Working with elderly people
4. Preparing food
5. Being involved in politics
6. Solving a mystery

My personal qualities

1. Friendly
2. Open
3. Outgoing
4. Good at making decisions
5. Good listener

In my free time I would enjoy

1. Helping to solve my friends’ problems
2. Helping with a community project
3. Coaching or tutoring kids

School subjects/activities in which I do well

1. Language arts
2. History
3. Speech
4. Math

Career Cluster 5
Activities that sound interesting

1. Putting things together
2. Designing buildings
3. Working on cars, mechanical things
4. Using advanced math to solve problems
5. Fixing something that is broken
6. Using tools

My personal qualities

1. Practical
2. Like using my hands
3. Logical
4. Good at following instructions
5. Observant

In my free time I would enjoy

1. Building models
2. Drawing sketches of cars, mechanical things
3. Inventing a new product

School subjects/activities in which I do well

1. Math
2. Geometry
3. Woodworking
4. Science

Career Cluster 6
Activities that sound interesting

1. Being out of doors
2. Predicting or measuring earthquakes
3. Growing flowers or trees, gardening
4. Raising fish or other animals
5. Studying rocks and minerals
6. Working in a chemistry lab

My personal qualities

1. Curious
2. Nature lover
3. Physically active
4. Problem solver
5. Observant

In my free time I would enjoy

1. Camping
2. Going to a nature trail
3. Experimenting with a chemistry set

School subjects/activities in which I do well

1. Math
2. Geography
3. Biology
4. Geometry

Scoring: Add up the number of circles in each cluster. The cluster that has the highest number of circles is the area which is most interesting to you.

Cluster 1: Arts and communications. Occupations in this path are related to the humanities and the performing, visual, literary and media arts. These may include architecture, interior design, creative writing, fashion design, film fine arts, graphic arts, graphic design, journalism, advertising or public relations

Cluster 2: Business management and computer technology. Occupations in this path are related to the business environment. That could include entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, computer information systems, finance, accounting, personnel, economics or management.

Cluster 3: Health services. Occupations in this path are related to promotion of health and the treatment of the disease including research, prevention and treatment.

Cluster 4: Human services. Occupations in this path are related to economic, political and social systems. That might include education, government, law and law enforcement, leisure and recreation, delivery, military, religion, child care, social services and personal services.

Cluster 5: Engineering and industrial technology. Occupations in this path are related to the technologies necessary to design, develop, install and maintain physical systems. That might include engineering, manufacturing, construction and service.

Cluster 6: Natural resources and environmental sciences. Occupations in this path are related to agriculture, the environment and natural resources. That might include agricultural sciences, earth science, environmental sciences, fisheries, forestry, horticulture or wildlife.

Source: Iroquois-Kankakee Counties Education to Careers Partnership Parent Handbook for Career Development

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