GRADE :
LEARNER OUTCOMES
:
| Number Correct | 10-12 | 8-9 | 7 | 0-5 |
| Grade | Excellent | Good | Okay | Poor |
| Percent | 84-100% | 78% | 60% | Below 60% |
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Business/Marketing: If you are interested in working in an office or operating your own business, you would select the business/marketing cluster. Some of the other careers in this field include: Legal/Medical Secretary, Accountant, Bank Teller, Chef, Host/Hostess, Department store manager, Real Estate and Small Business Manager, Bell Peon
BUSINESS/MARKETING
CAREER CLUSTER
Business careers include a wide variety of occupations and professions from the entry-level clerical and secretarial jobs to the highest level of administrative and managerial positions. These areas require varied levels of ability, skill, and educational preparation. The minimum educational requirement, the high school diploma, is required for all careers. A four-year college degree is required for others.
Many careers are available in the areas of accounting, business administration, finance, real estate, insurance, sales, merchandising, secretarial and clerical skills. Some of these jobs involve making decisions and supervising the activities of employees, while others provide support services and assistance to executives, administrators and managers.
Administrative
Support:
Office administrative
support workers use problem solving and administrative skills to perform
a wide range of activities including office, project and human resource management.
Administrative support prepares workers for a wide range of activities to
ensure business activities run smoothly. Often office workers manage
offices for the executive team. These individuals also obtain employment
with organizations that use computer software to process, manage and communicate
information. Duties may include systems maintenance supports, sales,
training and business applications design and implementation.
· Sample
Career Options:
Professional:
Not applicable to this career major
Skilled: Data
Control Clerk, Legal and Medical Secretary, Telemarketer, Administrative
Assistant, Office Manager, Executive Secretary
Entry: Help Desk
Consultant, Secretary, Receptionist, Data Entry Clerk, and Word Processor
Finance/Accounting:
Accounting and
finance workers assemble, analyze, process and communicate essential information
about financial operations. Accounting and finance occupations are found
in banks, finance companies, stock and bond trading companies, insurance companies,
and any business operation. The accounting and finance activities of
many businesses are contracted to specialized management support companies
that provide these services for several companies.
· Sample
Career Options:
Professional:
Accountant, Certified Public Accountant, Financial Consultant, Stock Broker
Skilled: Accounting
Clerk, Accounting Technician, Accounts Payable Clerk
Entry: Payroll
Clerk, Accounting Clerk, Bookkeeper, Bank Teller
Hospitality
Services/Food and Beverage:
Hospitality workers
from entry level to executive level use customer service, problem solving,
human relations, planning and other business skills to attract customers and
exceed customers expectations in a tourism or hospitality environment.
Individuals may work in food and beverage, attractions, convention planning,
sales and marketing, recreation and a wide variety of related occupations.
Entry into the field is not difficult and management-level employees are in
demand. Employment is available for high school graduates with good
academic and people skills and college graduates in hospitality are in great
demand. Entrepreneurial opportunities exist in many hospitality fields.
· Sample
Career Options:
Professional:
Restaurant Manager, Trainer, Chef, Marketing Director
Skilled: Convention
Planning, Dining Room Manager, Maintenance Engineer, Sales and Marketing,
Prep Cook
Entry: Host/Hostess,
Server, Housekeeper, Kitchen Helper
Management and
Marketing:
Business managers
and owners use their skills in supervision, team leadership, operations
planning, quality assurance, logistics, health and safety, human resources
management and inventory/material management to improve the productivity
and profitability of business enterprises. Business management majors
desire to own or manage business. Leaders in this field normally are
the key decision-makers in the business world. Business managers operate
businesses for other persons or companies, or serve this function as independent
contractors. Entrepreneurs take all the risks and receive all the rewards
for providing their products and/or services to other companies or to the
ultimate consumer.
Marketing allows
individuals to utilize marketing and management principles, practices and
concepts involved in business activities that direct the transfer of goods
and the acquisition of services from producer to consumer. Individuals
may work from point of purchase to the manufacturers in a variety of jobs
within the market channels.
· Sample
Career Options:
Professional:
Retail Department Manager, Foods Manager, Quick Service Restaurant Supervisor/Manager,
Distribution Services, Business Owner, Company Executive, Business Manager
Skilled:
Sales Associate, Front Desk Associate, Customer Service Representative, Retail
Department Manager, Real Estate and Small Business Manager
Entry: Counter
Associate, Bell Person, Wait Staff Associate, Telemarketing, Fast Food Store
Front Manager
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