Exploring Career Clusters and Career Pathways by Holland Personality Type

Need to choose a career cluster or pathway? If you'd like choose one based on your interests and strongest Holland personality types, look no further than Career Key's "Choose a Career Cluster, Field or Pathway" article.

The article guides you through the five steps of a good decision, including a free downloadable Career Key map of Career Clusters (see right).

You can also explore occupations listed by Holland type and Career Key work group, and their assigned career clusters.

Realistic Occupations and Their Career Clusters
Investigative Occupations and Their Career Clusters
Artistic Occupations and Their Career Clusters
Social Occupations and Their Career Clusters
Enterprising Occupations and Their Career Clusters
Conventional Occupations and Their Career Clusters

You can check off the occupations you like and bookmark or print the page to keep. When you "mouseover " the clusters at the right of each page, it shows you the career pathways for that cluster in a shaded box. Below is an example showing the pathways for the Architecture and Construction career cluster:

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If you haven't taken a valid assessment of your Holland types yet, please take the Career Key career test. To see all the career pathways for the occupations and clusters you identified, you'll find them in our affordable 118 page PDF eBook, "5 Steps to Choosing the Right Career Cluster, Field, or Pathway". There is a special discount when you purchase the test and eBook together.

Career Clusters, Career Pathways & Our Updated E-Book

"5 Steps to Choosing a Career Cluster, Field, or Pathway" has just been updated. It includes the most recent updates to The Career Key test and the most recent assignments of Career Clusters and Career Pathways found on O*NET OnLine.

Found in our eBookstore, "5 Steps" costs $9.95 with a special discount for purchasing both the Career Key test and the e-Book together.

Career Key's approach is to use its valid assessment of Holland's six personality types to match students to occupations, then to the clusters and pathways related to those occupations.

Our e-book is the only one that matches students' interests in this way. We also have a free online article called "Choosing a Career Cluster, Field or Pathway" with a free downloadable Career Key Map of the 16 Career Clusters.

The 16 Career Clusters and 79 Career Pathways are not organized by interests (but by industries and required skills, knowledge). So it's important to give students a scientifically valid way to match their interests to occupations within those clusters and pathways.

I uploaded to YouTube a video overview of Career Key's Career Clusters and Career Pathways resources, including the new version of the e-book.



If you are interested in Career Clusters and Career Pathways, you might read these related blog posts:
Career Clusters Interest Survey Validity Questioned by Study
NCDA Article on Using Interests to Organize Matching College Majors, Career Clusters and Pathways
NCDA (National Career Development Association)

Please see the related press release, "Career Key's Updated e-Book Enables Students to Choose the Best Career Cluster and Career Pathway."