How Do You Read this Guidebook?
This career guide is for parents, students, teachers, guidance counselors, professors, job seekers, policymakers, developers, and employers.
It describes the 7 career clusters as well as sample occupations and wages associated with them.
The guidebook defines each career cluster by:
- Its major business activities, and
- The career pathways that support them.
The color-coded cluster chapters that follow use the following format:
- The first chart highlights the business activities that identify the cluster and the career pathways that prepare workers to perform functions in those areas.
- Each matrix shows the cluster's "primary" pathways or skills (in yellow), which teach core technical skill sets, as well as knowledge and skills that are "transferable" to other occupations or clusters (in gray).
- Each career pathway is illustrated with sample occupations and wages.
Wage ranges presented in this report are drawn from national data provided in May 2006 in the Occupational Information Network (ONET), and are not representative of all counties in New Mexico.