Grade 8 Career Exploration Worksheet
Explore different career clusters, personal interests, skills, and values to guide future career planning for 8th-grade students.
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Career Exploration: Charting Your Future
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This worksheet will help you think about your interests, skills, and values as you begin to explore different career paths. Read each section carefully and answer truthfully.
1. List three of your favorite subjects in school and explain why you enjoy them.
2. What are two skills you are good at, and how might these skills be useful in a job?
3. Which career cluster would most likely include a veterinarian, a zookeeper, and a park ranger?
Health Science
Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources
Human Services
Arts, A/V Technology, & Communications
4. The feeling of helping others and making a positive impact is an example of a work value.
5. A career that offers a high salary and good benefits aligns with the work value of .
6. It is normal to change your career path several times throughout your life.
True
False
7. Choose one career that interests you. What are two things you could do to learn more about this career?
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